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    Charles River IMS

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AThe Charles River Investment Management Solution (Charles River IMS) automates front and middle office processes for buy-side firms. The solution helps enable accurate and timely investment decision support for institutional and wealth managers, alternative investment firms, insurers and asset owners. Charles River IMS helps clients streamline operations, reduce risk, and improve reliability.N/A

    MindBridge Platform

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AMindBridge Ai Auditor is an AI powered auditing & financial risk assessment platform, from the company of the same name in Ottawa.N/A
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    Charles River IMSMindBridge Platform
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    Charles River IMSMindBridge Platform
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    User Ratings
    Charles River IMSMindBridge Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.2
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    Charles River IMSMindBridge Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    State Street
    If your are large asset management company focused mostly on interest rate products and you are large institutional trader your way is the use of Charles River Portfolio Management & Risk Analytics account which is most reputable custodian institution which offers superior tool for bonds trading - Charles River IMS. Charles River Portfolio Management & Risk Analytics is focused on large bond traders, so is not offered for small hedge funds. It is not appropriate if you are small account holder and focused more on stock market offerings, margin trading and less focused on custodian reputation. There is no separate risk module for trading group risk management.
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    MindBridge
    MindBridge [Platform] is an excellent tool to use to gain additional comfort over client's data. The key areas it helps with are analytical procedure risk and inherent risk, but depending on the data you have, it can also be able to assess control risk to a degree. It's a very malleable tool that can be made to fit your client, however, it does require upfront work (as the implementation of any new technology would). The tool may not be scalable for audit work that is very low-risk and requires little hour input in the first place as it may add more hours in the long-run than the normal audit would incur. Our team has used these low-risk audits in our implementation, however, to corroborate the results we get, which we felt has helped us achieve our successes with the tool.
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    Pros
    State Street
    • Focused on bonds
    • Risk approache based on counterparties risk measurement
    • Buid in scenario strategies and testing
    • CDS are available for trading (exlusive offering)
    • Portfolio construction
    • Yield analytics
    • Exotics: SWAPs, SWAPtions
    • Sophisticated options analytics
    • Currency forwards (exclusive offering)
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    MindBridge
    • Using the output from MB AI we have been able to reduce the inherent risk and analytical procedures risk assessments in our audits which have reduced our substantive testing sample sizes.
    • The output from MB AI allows us to focus on the medium risk and high risk transactions that were recorded in the general ledger during the year.
    • Our younger, more technologically advanced team members really enjoy working with MB AI.
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    Cons
    State Street
    • Equities - microstructure to consider detection of iceberg orders
    • Build in algos for large trades execution
    • Corporate or Banking level platform - not focused on mid sized business
    • SAP connectivity
    • Only Charles River Portfolio Management & Risk Analytics accounts
    • No trading group accounts capabilities
    • Needs arbitrage trading algo: spread, statistical, merger for stocks
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    MindBridge
    • It needs to have a deliverable Risk Analysis report, something that can be exported to a PDF and delivered to clients.
    • Accounts receivable and payable analysis needs to be able to handle tiered customers and vendors.
    • Exporting to PDF should be a feature. Works great for Excel.
    • Needs forecasting capability in order for us to use for review engagements.
    • Needs the ability to compare client to industry ratings.
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    Usability
    State Street
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    MindBridge
    The only reason I do not give this a 10 is that I would like a deliverable risk report. This would enable me to offer additional services to my non-audit clients.
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    Support Rating
    State Street
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    MindBridge
    My experience with customer support may different since I started using the application early on. I am also providing continuous recommendations for improvement or additional features. They have always been available when I needed them and they actually listen and value my opinion. They have implemented many of our recommendations and asked for our input on possible new features.
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    Alternatives Considered
    State Street
    Charles River Portfolio Management & Risk Analytics is a state of the art company which owns state of the art products Charles River Portfolio Management & Risk Analytics. If you are considering long term value, capital preservation strategy and pension funds management that is the right choice if holdien one account versus several to get systematic diversification. You can run even department of banks treasury with use of Charles River Portfolio Management & Risk Analytics. So good but focused on large investors needs and diversification focus.
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    MindBridge
    We did not consider any other similar products.
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    Return on Investment
    State Street
    • Neutral. We are in system migration process.
    • We expect to get our P&L less volatile (+/- 5%). More international bonds in a mix
    • Top custodian is our first priority
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    MindBridge
    • Increased efficiency
    • Better quality audits performed
    • Coming to more reasoned conclusions that are supported by data
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