dxFeed has introduced the state-of-the-art, full life cycle, electronic index management solution. It supports common management and R&D processes on multiple index families with controlled workflows and flexible environment to solve data manipulation problems and improve accuracy of research. The solution benefits index R&D analysts in exchanges, wealth management and financial research companies by streamlining the process of index research and development.
Index Management Solution provides:
Unified approach to data source management
Collaboration tools for index research and prototyping
Back-testing tools running on historical data with different levels of aggregation
Support for multi-temporal analysis with different versions of methodologies applied to different versions of index baskets and underlying data
Organization of index methodologies into visual, manageable, self-documented entities that ensure single-version-of-the-truth source – allowing operations to run routine index maintenance jobs and generate baskets and weightings for the calculation engine.
The most common issues our clients are facing when managing the processes around index design and management are:
The existing data landscape in most organizations today is usually heterogeneous with many of the data sources being legacy databases, flat files, and Excel files coming from various internal systems. Handling and maintaining consistent data is a challenge growing day by day with more data being added. This consumes additional resources and generates more errors.
There is no common index workflow automation tool to allow the design, test, run, document and presentation of workflows visually nor to schedule an automated workflow execution easily. This implies significant extra time and resources spent to support the existing process.
And finally, there’s no common R&D environment for researchers that could be used for collaborative development and data analysis for index management and no centralized version control for index management algorithms, workflows and supporting artefacts.
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Weighted by supplementary factors such as maximum weight (capping) restrictions or certain attributes
Leveraged and inverse indices
Weighted return indices
Dividend indices
Risk control, excess return, currency, currency hedged, domestic currency return, and the special opening quotation calculations
The system allows to create the whole index implementation in a single live document with rich text, code and results in the form of figures, tables, text, etc. This approach provides an easy way for documenting algorithms and methods used together with analytical expressions and code eliminating the need for separate documentation storage and management.
In addition this greatly enhances the collaboration capabilities of groups of experts by providing a single platform to design, prototype, test and document index calculation and analytics.