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Chris
Verified reviewer
Investment Management, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2019
Hedge Fund Analytics Software
While we only use a small portion of the tools AltSoft has (Database, Portfolio Management, Peer Groups), each have been helpful to our reporting processes and portfolio modeling.
PROSBreadth, ease of use (for those familiar with investment stats), customer service/technical help, and customization.
CONSExport times take a little bit long on some reports, but it's seconds, not minutes, and it can run in the background while I do something else. Also, would like them to introduce an "undo" feature during performance entry.
Joe
Financial Services, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed April 2019
Alt Soft Review
It has helped tremendously with automating or semi-automating a number of reports. The excel plug in was a fantastic idea and more importantly, works very well. As a comparison tool for screening funds, it's second to none
PROSVery intuitive, thoughtful UI, powerful backend, great datafeed plug ins, constant evolution
CONSToo difficult to filter funds you do not want when importing from ODU, leading to reimport of previously deleted assets. I understand the impetus for charging for the cloud option, but with a larger provider it would likely be provided at no additional cost. Morningstar Direct made this available at no extra cost and, given the comparability in cost between the two softwares, it is difficult to justify spending more on a cloud option.
eugenia
Capital Markets, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed August 2018
AS Review
portfolio monitoring, peer group and watch lists, monthly portfolio reporting to clients
PROSease of use, in-depth analyses available
CONSMany analysis, charts, etc. not available/easily exportable in excel.
Daniel
Investment Management, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed April 2019
Good tool
We use AlternativeSoft for analysing hedge funds and hedge fund portfolios and are quite happy with the flexibility and functionalities.
PROSEasy to use and easy to customise Good functions for analysing hedge funds as well as automize reports Good Excel add-in
CONSIn our version 5.0.3.41311: Portfolio Management Tool could have more analytics like contributions of assets and strategies In Database, there should be a good possibility to save user entered fund specific data like in the old "Holdings" tab. In the Asset Analysis Form it should be easier to compare two Funds agains each user with regards to performance, risk, etc.
Matthew
Financial Services, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2019
Extensive Feature Set and Strong Support
We use AlternativeSoft to manage a complex hedge fund portfolio, as well as a centralized source of performance and market data.
PROSGreat feature set, very responsive support team, and excellent APIs enable us to build highly customized solutions.
CONSWe've experienced a bit more instability and issues with new version releases. Hope that the quality control of updates will be improved in the future.
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed February 2020
Fund Manager Analytics Software
Overall, I have had a great experience with AlternativeSoft. It has made my job much easier because return data is automatically pulled from our prime broker and I can run reports that give me key insights into our fund performance.
PROSI enjoy how easy the software is to use. I can easily pull up fund level return data and find key data points, such as correlations and volatility. Also, I can compare easily against key benchmarks and peer groups.
CONSSometimes, when using the software it can get a bit laggy when typing in fund information, causing a delay.
Lorenzo
Investment Management, 1 employee
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2019
Logical, intuitive and a sound quantitative tool
Good tool for comparing managers’ performances, creating synthetic benchmarks and building portfolios within specified risk boundaries. Help desk team always helpful and knowledgeable. Good value for money.
PROSEasy to learn. Great support team. Very solid quantitative models behind the tools.
CONSNot sure. It offers a solid and intuitive portfolio construction method. There is little to fault.
Farès
Financial Services, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed June 2018
Very satisfied overall. Some features still need to be implemented in our view.
Very dedicated and helpful customer support. The software is quite complete but would need small enhancement to make it fully efficient.
CONSSome features are missing to reflect our true portfolio. I'm confident that this will be implemented soon by the team.
Stefana
Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2019
Excellent
Very good experience, very happy with this - I think it was a good investment for the company!
PROSReally good feature set, always available support team and excellent APIs with highly customized solutions.
CONSSome minor issues with new versions but the support team has sorted that our quickly!
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2019
Review
Ease of running reports and updating analyses.
CONSWish there were more excel templates that cover a larger spectrum of the software.
Bari
Financial Services, 51-200 employees
Used monthly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2019
Gonet Review
We were still working with Excel to compute performances... So for us it is a big step and a much higher level of analysis. Even though I know this software is mainly used by fund managers, I am sure it will be fine for our portfolio management.
PROSLink any sources of data with the program Flexibility of the programming team Analysis of the portfolio is very impressive and the live update with time window's adjustments is very important and useful.
CONSIt looks a bit outdated in terms of design but it doesn't matter. I already used the program so I was familiar with it, but for a beginner, it is not so user-friendly. In portfolio construction, time-window often is often re-based and adapted to the initial date when reopening a portfolio, and do not save the last time window used. So it makes me often check my weights (model 2) over the time line to see if there is no data missing...
alex
Financial Services, 201-500 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed April 2019
good software fo my purposes
portfolio construction / time series analysis
PROSease of usage overall- time series management
CONSstability of system overall- but seems to get better
Caitlin
Broadcast Media, 51-200 employees
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2019
Great for performance review
Super easy to use and great IT support . We will definitely be continuing to use their performance review software following our free trial.
CONSNo issues have arisen yet, any confusion was cleared up by their support team .
Soon Kit
Financial Services, 51-200 employees
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2019
Good software for buy side
Good layout and feature. Good product base for futher extension
CONSnothing so far. need more GTM positioning and you can increase market share easily