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Friday, January 27, 2012

How are you running your Swaps under the new Dodd Frank Act?
11:09 am est          Comments

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Why are Total Return Swap and CFDs so hard to mange?

Why haven't large institutions comercialized the swap or swap systems by now? I continue to hear the same issues with using and trading swaps in your portfolio.

What underlyings do you trade in Swap and how do you manage them?

10:41 pm est          Comments


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Functions include:

v         Simple creation of total return and portfolio swap trades

v          Customize swap calculation terms

v          Automatically link to trading or brokerage systems to actively adjust new swap positions.

v         Link to pricing and data servers to capture market data; including prices, dividends, interest and FX rates

v         Produce automated reconciliations, helpful analytics and MIS to increase transparency and decrease surprises

v         Actively manage risk and monitor your entire swap inventory at a glance with customized extracts and reports

Reports:
(monitor your entire swap inventory at a glance with customized reports including)

v  Mark to market

v  Equity and Interest accrual.

v  Trade confirmation notices.

v  Realized and Unrealized P&L.

v  Commissions and Fee calculations.

v  Dividend accruals.

v  Reset Notices.

v  Unwind notices using tax lot accounting.


Manage risk:

(MIS and custom data  will increase transparency and decrease surprises. )

v  Quick calculations of daily mark to market

v  Monitor and calculate reset events.

v  Automatically monitor and reconcile with executing and Prime Brokers.

v  Calculate partial swap unwinds and terminations.

v  Use optimal accounting treatments for unwinds such as average cost, LIFO, FIFO or HIFO.

v  Financing and fee calculations will allow you to monitor funding rates across multiple brokers and deals.

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