Charles River IMS vs. Morningstar Advisor Workstation

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Charles River IMS
Score 8.7 out of 10
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The 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
Morningstar Advisor Workstation
Score 8.1 out of 10
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Morningstar headquartered in Chicago offers the Morningstar Advisor Workstation, an investment portfolio management application.N/A
Pricing
Charles River IMSMorningstar Advisor Workstation
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Pricing Offerings
Charles River IMSMorningstar Advisor Workstation
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
Charles River IMSMorningstar Advisor Workstation
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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10.0
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User Testimonials
Charles River IMSMorningstar Advisor Workstation
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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Morningstar
If a client is shy about investing or wants portfolio comparisons, Morningstar really hits the mark. Being able to show real-time data is great for putting a client's mind at ease. The downside to this product is, that if a client isn’t as financially literate, it takes some explaining to show them what’s going on, and they can get lost in all of the data.
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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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Morningstar
  • Amazing Comparisons
  • Easy to read charts
  • Diverse database
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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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Morningstar
  • Ease of use
  • Data sync
  • Bond Database can be lacking
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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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Morningstar
In terms of diversity, Morningstar is the best on the market. The way they display data, and since many financial institutions use this software, it is easy to show clients how their money is doing outside of our institution. Also allows us to show portentously clients in-depth comparisons of different investment strategies.
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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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Morningstar
  • Gets Clients to Move their money to us
  • Let’s you track portfolio performance to a variety of benchmarks
  • The historical data is great
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