Perform® is a complete fixed income portfolio analysis system combining portfolio reporting, total return analysis, and portfolio simulations into one complete package. Perform® models both taxable and tax-exempt fixed income instruments. In addition, Perform® users have the option to integrate with the CreditScope® credit analysis system, the Smart™ short maturity portfolio system, and the Custom Index Manager™ indexing / total return attribution software.
Perform® delivers native flexibility to handle new analytical needs – so you’re not “stuck” when your needs change. Users of Perform® can also create trade tickets, allocate trades, export trade files, run compliance tests pre-or-post trade, and more.
Professional money managers require robust tools that are easy to use. Too often, the tools that are used to manage portfolios require numerous workarounds in order to handle fixed income assets. This is because fixed income is almost an afterthought in many portfolio tools.
At Investortools, we make it our business to help eliminate inefficiencies and bottlenecks.This is one reason the Perform® portfolio management system is employed by many of the country’s top mutual funds, banks, investment counselors, securities dealers and private account managers.
Perform® is loaded with features and powerful analytic capabilities – but is also designed to enhance efficiency, so that beginners and occasional users can quickly accomplish common tasks.
Perform® puts a large number of standard reports and graph at your fingertips. But you’re not limited to what we pre-package in the software. The built-in report (and graphing) engine enables any user to access over 150 available CUSIP fields, and over 1,000 custom-report and custom-graph functions. Users can also create their own user-defined report macros. This feature set leads to a powerful assortment of reporting possibilities. Users can easily export or print reports into a variety of digital or presentation-ready formats.
Need a new report, but pressed for time? Call your Investortools client relationship manager and we will build it for you, typically at no cost.
Specialized Perform® Software
Perform® for Private Clients (“Perform FPC”) is a feature-rich portfolio management tool designed for managers in the private account business. Perform FPC includes many features designed specifically for managers of multiple client portfolios.
Perform® for Securities Dealers (“Perform FSD”) is a software tool enabling securities dealers to improve sales and productivity. Perform FSD provides the capability to to import and analyze buy-side portfolios.
The Perform® “Performance” center reports both the “big” view and the “small” view – both the aggregated performance of portfolio structures and also total return by bond. In addition to other functionality, managers can analyze the time-weighted return contribution of each bond (and also each bond transaction) in basis points. Continue
Compare your Performance to index data provided by Investortools. Benchmark updates are accessed through Investortools’ electronic bulletin board system without leaving Perform®.
The portfolio effects of prospective purchases and sales can be analyzed in Perform’s “Swaps & Simulations” feature. You can determine in advance the impact of proposed transactions on key portfolio average measures such as duration and maturity.
Perform® makes it easy to answer the question, “How did my portfolio change in the past 6 months?” Perform® maintains historical data, which can be used to analyze security and portfolio trends, and to re-create portfolios historically.
Portfolio-level and CUSIP-level analyses are often presented in a graph context. Detail supporting these graphs is readily accessible from the graph itself. Perform® provides over one hundred analytically-focused graphs ranging from “current” portfolio views, to historical views, to total return.
Over 150 reports are pre-delivered with the Perform® software. But there’s no reason to stop there! If you don’t see what you need, a user can also create their own reports from scratch, or modify and add to reports already in the software. Investortools’ support group will help you create or modify reports as needed. Continue