Charles River IMS
Overview
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Charles River
Investment Management Solution
Front Middle
Office Office
Foundation
Charles River Investment Management Solution (Charles River IMS) is an enterprise platform
that helps managers streamline and centralize their operating models with modern, cloud-
based technology. This helps firms reduce operational costs and risk, supports timely
investment decisions, and speeds time to market.
Relied on by investment professionals globally, Charles River IMS supports the entire
investment lifecycle across asset classes, from portfolio and risk management through trading
and post-trade settlement, with integrated compliance and managed data throughout.
Charles River’s growing third-party ecosystem helps enable clients to seamlessly access their
preferred external data and analytics, applications and liquidity venues to support the unique
demands of their product and asset class mix.
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Manage Your Entire Investment Process
from a Single Desktop
Together with State Street’s middle and back office services, Charles River’s cloud-based platform forms the
foundation of State Street Alpha℠, the industry’s first front-to-back investment management solution.
Alpha Data Platform and Services provide unified data management and delivery across the solution.
FRONT OFFICE Front Middle MIDDLE OFFICE
Portfolio Management
Office Office Collateral
Management
Risk Analytics
Post-Trade and
Scenario Analysis Foundation Settlements
Performance and GIPS
Attribution Compliance
Order and Execution
Management
FOUNDATION
Cloud Data Partner Cash and Position Compliance &
Delivery Management Ecosystem Management Regulatory
MULTI-ASSET INDUSTRY WIDE
Private Markets & Fixed Income Institutional / Asset Owners
Alternatives Asset Management
OTC Hedge Funds
Equities Wealth Management /
FX / Cash Private Wealth Insurance
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Charles River Front Office
PORTFOLIO RISK SCENARIO PERFORMANCE ORDER & EXECUTION
MANAGEMENT ANALYTICS ANALYSIS & ATTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT
Front Middle
Office Office
Foundation
Manage all Portfolios Leverage Your Rigorously Attribute and Automate Trades
& Products on One Preferred Risk Stress Test Analyze Portfolio Across Global
Platform Analytics Your Portfolios Performance Liquidity Venues
Centralized portfolio We provide a Understand the Calculate, analyze Our multi-asset
construction, analysis consistent and timely impact of multiple and report on order and execution
and optimization view of portfolio, stress factors on your multi-methodology management
capabilities enable market, and sector portfolios, including and multi-currency connects you to global
you to support all risk. From a single interest rate and FX performance liquidity venues,
investment funds desktop, you can shifts, credit spread attribution results. automates low-touch
and mandates on calculate, manage, changes, inflation View the latest trades and supports
one platform, readily and monitor risk shocks, and equity return, contribution portfolio trades.
understand the impact across the entire market movements. and attribution Access your choice
of asset allocation and investment lifecycle Apply regulator- data for your of transaction cost
de-risking decisions, and create risk mandated scenarios portfolios, across analysis providers
and incorporate forecasts using your to model potential any timeframe and to document best
compliance rules in preferred internal or outcomes and user-defined class execution and gain
portfolio construction externally-sourced gauge worst-case levels. visibility into trade
decisions. factor models. drawdown. execution quality.
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Charles River Middle Office
COLLATERAL POST-TRADE AND GIPS
MANAGEMENT SETTLEMENTS COMPLIANCE
Front Middle
Office Office
Foundation
Real-Time Margin and Centralized Post-Trade Maintain and Validate
Collateral Visibility Processing and Settlements GIPS Compliance
A unified view of front We provide centralized Our Performance
and middle office margin confirmation, trade matching, Measurement & Attribution
requirements, from pre-trade and settlement instruction (PMA) capabilities for
decision support through to workflows, so dealers, operations teams help
margin call management and traders, portfolio managers, enable compliance
collateral posting, supports compliance, and operations with Global Investment
decisions on which assets to personnel have the same Performance Standards
pledge. Gain visibility into real-time view of all post- (GIPS) and conduct
initial margin estimates and trade processing activity and GIPS verification of
streamline operations by data for each transaction. performance, attribution,
centralizing the identification and risk measures of
of eligible collateral with portfolios and composites.
recording, reconciliation,
selection and tracking tasks.
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Charles River IMS Foundations
Charles River IMS is built on an extensive foundation, featuring a unified data platform and
services, cloud-based deployment and end-to-end compliance across the investment cycle.
CLOUD DELIVERY
Front Middle DATA PLATFORM
Office Office
Operate From a Secure, Capture, Curate and
Scalable and Highly Leverage Internal and
Performant Platform External Data
Deployed on Microsoft® Foundation State Street Alpha SM
Azure, our platform Data Platform captures
helps enable timelier the disparate data
investment decisions, generated across your
compliance with growing investment process and
regulatory requirements, from external sources to
and scalability to support better inform your asset
organic and acquisition- allocation, investment
based business growth. and de-risking decisions
and help meet regulatory
requirements.
DATA PARTNER CASH & POSITION COMPLIANCE &
SERVICES ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT REGULATORY
Designed for Consistent Leverage your Choice Visibility into Positions Maintain Compliance
and Accurate Data of Third-Party Providers and Investable Cash Obligations
Global pricing, reference, Our growing third-party Our Investment Book of Help meet your regulatory
benchmark, ESG and provider ecosystem Record (IBOR) delivers a obligations with centralized,
index data combined with helps enable seamless consistent, accurate and scalable compliance
our multi-asset security interoperability with real-time source of cash, monitoring and management,
master and enterprise your preferred risk positions and exposures complemented by
data management analytics, data, across asset classes, compliance services that
capabilities help ensure applications and providing portfolio maintain and monitor an
your investment process liquidity venues, directly managers and traders extensive library of rules that
is supported by accurate from our platform. with an independent and cover worldwide regulatory
and complete data. investment centric view requirements and mandates*.
of their portfolios.
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* Including but not limited to UCITS, AIFMD, Market Abuse Directive, 1940 Act, 2a7, Canadian Information Classification: General
National Instruments 81-102, US Insurance Regulations, MIFID, Global Shareholder Disclosure
(GSD) regulations and Charles River LawCard®.
Charles River Development,
A State Street Company
Investment, wealth and alternative managers, asset owners and insurers in 30 countries rely on
Charles River IMS to manage USD $36 Trillion in assets. Together with State Street’s middle and
back office services, Charles River’s cloud-deployed front [and middle] office technology forms
the foundation of State Street Alpha℠. Charles River helps automate and simplify the investment
process across asset classes, from portfolio management and risk analytics through trading and
post-trade settlement, with integrated compliance and managed data throughout. Charles River’s
partner ecosystem enables clients to access the data, analytics, application and liquidity providers
that support their product and asset class mix. We serve clients globally with more than 1,000
employees in 11 regional offices.
(Statistics as of Q 4 2021)
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