Automate complicated and time-consuming pricing processes to
To prove alpha, funds need to calculate the price of every position in the portfolio.
Pricing involves a great deal of time-consuming work, from data collection to rules application to pricing tests. For more exotic asset classes, highly illiquid securities, or mark to model securities, pricing can be a much more complicated endeavor.
IVP Price Master provides an end-to-end automated pricing solution.
It efficiently retrieves data from vendors and brokers, applies waterfall pricing rules, and ensures prices meet threshold checks. This helps funds apply valuation policies consistently and deliver prices that executives, investors, and auditors can review with confidence.
CAPABILITIES
Automation of Daily and Monthly Pricing
All Types of Pricing Tests
Challenge and Solicitation of the Prices
Valuation Committee Packages
Pricing Audit and Analytics
100
Asset classes
120
Data Connections
15
Clients
2
Faster Daily Pricing
7
Days on Monthly Pricing
IVP Price Master is connected to all the leading pricing data vendors and brokers. It provides a flexible and configurable pricing engine that caters to
the needs of any type of pricing process.
KEY FEATURES
PRICING
AUTOMATION
Automate pricing and valuation with a robust pricing engine that supports daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly pricing needs. Set up pricing rules with a user-friendly, configurable engine.
EXCEPTION
MANAGEMENT
Resolve pricing exceptions with automated suggestions to optimize risk management. All exceptions are managed with a built-in workflow that features a complete audit trail and data governance.
EXTENSIVE
CONNECTIVITY
This pricing software comes with more than 100 built-in adapters to data vendors, brokers, and pricing agents, as well as a long list of front and back office systems, including more than 10 portfolio management and accounting systems.
FLEXIBLE
REPORTING
Price Master comes with a long list of standard pricing reports, including a valuation committee package. Teams can also create custom pricing reports for fund-specific needs.
VALUATION OF
PRIVATE DEALS
Automation of pricing for Mark to Model securities with support for native Valuation models and integration with spreadsheet-based models and pricing agents.
EXCEL
ADD-IN
A Fully integrated excel add in that allows the front office users to provide their desk estimates and pricing notes from excel.
CRITICAL BENEFITS
Transparency
Includes a built-in pricing audit feature for independent price verification as well as a time series view that shows all sources for a given price.
Accuracy
Performs data quality checks that can be easily customized for various attributes. Rules-based test configuration includes support for severity-based distinctions.
Integration
Features an Excel add-in so most user actions can be performed directly from the spreadsheet application, without the need to learn a separate interface.
Insight
Delivers in-depth analytics for pricing information, with key metrics on quality of quotes, attached market standard models for price computations, and calculated ASC 820 levels for securities.
Support
IVP Price Master comes with white-glove 24×7 global support, provided by a team of subject matter experts and CFAs.
END-TO-END TOUCHPOINTS
SECURITY AND
POSITIONS DATA
Connects directly to accounting and data warehouse
BROKERS, VENDORS
AND SPECIALISTS
Consumes pricing quotations and revised/challenged marks
FUND ADMINS
AND INTERNAL DESK
Delivers internal prices, comparison marks, other relevant data
ACCOUNTING
ENGINES/PMS
Automated connectivity for posting final prices
ASSET CLASS COVERAGE
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Equity
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Fixed Income
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ABS/MBS
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Loans
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CDS/CDX
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Swaps
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Futures
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Options
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Exotic
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OTC
PRICING DATA AS A SERVICE
With IVP Managed Services, IVP Price Master can also deliver “Pricing Data as a service”. Empowered by digital-first technologies, our cross-functional support teams manage the entire pricing process in the cloud with “audit anytime” transparency that makes it simple for you to check every step in the process. Well-defined SLAs and KPIs help control operating risks. And activity-based pricing lets you take a modular approach.
RESOURCES
IVP Price Master Product Brochure
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