SunGard Acquires Advanced Portfolio Technologies
APT Risk Model and Portfolio Analytics Solutions
Specialized Hedge Fund Risk Models and Analysis
Scalable Portfolio Analytics Solutions supported by multi-asset Risk Models
Web-based Portfolio Analytics Solutions and APT Risk Models
Flexible APT Risk Models plus Portfolio Research, Analysis and Revision

APT provides investors with statistical market risk models, performance & risk analytics, and portfolio optimization & construction tools.

Risk profiles for 300,000 equities, bonds, currencies, indexes, funds, commodities and unlimited futures, options & user-defined securities – updated daily, weekly and monthly.

Integrated multi-factor models – robust, statistical components combined with intuitive factors such as country, currency, sector, and style factors, as well as economic, fundamental and user- defined factors.

Desktop application software, ASP reporting, MS Excel Add-ins and COM/XML programming libraries, delivered as a modular, open system.

Professionally supported from New York, London, Paris, Milan, Sydney, Johannesburg, Frankfurt & Seoul.

Unrivalled accuracy, power and flexibility for market and credit risk.

March 2008

SunGard Acquires Advanced Portfolio Technologies
SunGard (www.sungard.com) today announced that it has acquired Advanced Portfolio Technologies, Inc. (APT), a leading global provider of risk management systems and portfolio optimization software for asset managers, hedge funds, pension funds, broker/dealers and proprietary traders.

January 2008

APT releases a new single-country equity model covering Indonesia estimated in Indonesian Rupiah (IDR), targeting the Asian markets.

December 2007

APT releases two new single-country equity models covering Malaysia estimated in Malysian Ringgit (MYR) and Singapore estimated in Singapore dollars (SGD), both targeting the Asian markets.

APT Risk Model and Portfolio Analytics Solutions - for Asset Managers

Integrated multi-factor risk models for equities, bonds, & funds-of-funds.

Tracking error forecasts, risk attribution, beta analysis. Portfolio construction tools.

Widest security coverage & broad range of intuitive factors; country, currency, sector, style, economic, statistical & user-defined.

Tax-efficient portfolio optimization & 10/40 UCITS constraints supported.

Specialized Hedge Fund Risk Models and Analysis - for Hedge Funds

Statistical risk models & hedging tools for equities, corporate bonds, convertibles, CDSs, futures, ETFs, options, etc.

Short-term volatility models. Specialised tools for absolute return strategies; equity long-short, stat arb, pairs, vol arb, merger arb, event arb, & others.

Automatic daily risk reports, real-time Excel add-ins, & interactive, multi-trader, multi-book, Drill-Down & Hedge™ tools.

Integrated with popular trade and portfolio management systems.

Scalable Portfolio Analytics Solutions supported by multi-asset Risk Models - for Enterprise Risk

Total Plan Risk forecasts. Daily risk updates. Robust, theory-based risk models profiling all asset classes, in real time.

Any aggregation or segmentation, & cross platform. Normal & non-normal market distributions for everyday and extreme events, including Scenario Analysis.

Integrates with asset managers' and traders' risk and portfolio management systems.

Rapid rollout, low implementation cost, flexible billing.

Comprehensive global asset coverage with programmatic or GUI interface to add user-defined securities or composites.

Web-based Portfolio Analytics Solutions and APT Risk Models - for Pension Funds

Intuitive reports of traditional fundamental measures integrated with model-based risk analytics & value-added functions.

Portfolio overviews & drill-down to the security level.

Theoretically sound, not 'data mining'. Automatic.

High quality, dedicated technical support.

Flexible APT Risk Models plus Portfolio Research, Analysis and Revision - for Brokers/Dealers

Statistical risk models for internal use.

Customisable multi-factor models for automatic client reports.

Real-time risk model updates for best margin setting, specialised brokerage tools for basket bidding, hedging option books, non-linear transaction costs.