Cognity

The world has changed unrecognizably. Dramatic volatility swings are the new market norm. Risk and portfolio managers must work in tandem to mitigate risk in advance of the next shock while at the same time avoid missed opportunities and ensure steady, consistent performance gains.

Through our patented fat-tailed framework, FinAnalytica’s Cognity risk management software makes sense of this new paradigm by isolating downside loss from upside return and accurately modeling the dynamic market phenomena seen in asset returns. Cognity deploys analytics that are predictive of changing market environments and serve as early warning indicators across all markets and market regimes.

Cognity predictive performance risk analytics offer unique solutions for asset managers, hedge funds and institutional multi-asset, multi-manager investors.

Proactive Risk Management Cognity is the new market benchmark for risk management and portfolio construction. Meeting the sophisticated analytic demands of risk managers, portfolio managers and quants, Cognity enables an enterprise view of risk and allocation across portfolios of any transparency, asset class or currency. Through an easy to use modular interface, Cognity matches any workflow and translates results into an intuitive language that senior managers and investors understand. 

Dashboard Risk Analytics and Risk Reporting Cognity’s open multi-model environment puts you in control with dashboard views of your risk and return potential. Going beyond black box generated hard copy reports, Cognity risk analytics dashboards put portfolio managers and risk managers on the same page by overlaying our patented fat-tailed reporting framework on to your standard VaR infrastructure and combining views across distribution types, horizons, confidence levels, stress scenarios and what-if trades. 

Portfolio Construction and Asset Allocation Combining industry standard allocation and optimization techniques with our patented fat-tailed framework, Cognity arms fund managers and multi-manager investors with a comprehensive suite of portfolio construction capabilities.  Cognity combines qualitative research with quantitative insight, arming fund managers and multi-manager investors with powerful tools for diversifying holding and maximizing risk-adjusted return

Holdings-based & Multi-Asset Class Portfolio Risk Analytics Providing Asset Managers, Hedge Funds, Pension Funds and other institutional investors powerful multi-asset class aggregation capabilities, Cognity risk management software offers unparalleled reporting and results transparency for an extensive list of asset classes and instrument types. User-defined views of aggregated portfolio risk with drill down into multi-level groupings across asset classes and positions are easily created. Aggregating traditional holdings-based portfolios and alternative investments while retaining maximum granularity, Cognity is the only global, multi-currency, multi-asset class platform offering a true enterprise view of risk and return. more>

Returns-based Multi-Manager and Alternatives Portfolio Risk Analytics Meeting the analytic demands of the most sophisticated funds of funds, endowments, pension funds and other multi-manager firms, Cognity risk management software is the benchmark for returns-based risk management and portfolio construction. Cognity integrates FinAnalytica’s patent-pending fat-tailed framework with state-of-the-art quantitative software to deliver comprehensive analysis in an intuitive language that investors understand. more>