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BEACON BY CWAN

Cloud-native, cross-asset trading and risk management solution.

Beacon by CWAN adds quantitative and modeling capabilities to the world’s most robust investment management platform for comprehensive risk and performance analysis spanning public and private markets.

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Comprehensive and extensible views of cross-asset risks and exposures.

Gain broad visibility of all forms of risk, across all asset classes, and distill it into actionable insights with an open and unified platform.

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Extensible tech stack

Elastic, cloud-native infrastructure designed for speed and scale.

Integrate data from all sources with a comprehensive array of connectors and interfaces.
Build on the foundation of flexible models and analytics with proprietary and third-party variants.
Operate on a secure, elastic cloud to manage risk for complex portfolio valuations, scenario analyses, and intraday calculations.

Trading and risk package

Modular, cross-asset financial applications and instrument support.

Model standard, extended, and bespoke contracts and deal structures with a broad range of instrument definitions.
Evaluate exposures, monitor risk, attribute performance, and explain P&L changes.
Generate tailored risk, performance, and position reports for investors, regulators, and others.

Flexible add-ons

Purpose-built for energy and commodities to equity and derivatives.

Cross-asset financial application trading and risk with pre- and post-trade analysis, intraday risk and P&L reporting, scenario modeling, and lifecycle management for rates and FX instruments.
Energy and commodities package adds market-specific trade ingestion, back-office and operations tools, VaR and XVA, and North American and European instruments.
Equity and derivatives package adds high-volume trade capture, integration of additional third-party tools, and extensive equity instrument definitions.

BEACON by CWAN

Bring transparency and control to the most complex parts of the financial market at scale.

Beacon remains the flexible, powerful risk product you trust — now backed by a robust platform designed to drive even greater value and innovation. CWAN brings the scale, infrastructure, and resources of a global investment platform provider, ensuring that Beacon’s advanced risk and analytics capabilities continue to grow and evolve.

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Enhanced stability and innovation

Backed by cloud-native infrastructure, Beacon delivers faster enhancements and new features.

Seamless platform integration

Advanced risk modeling connected to CWAN’s real-time data foundation, delivering a unified front-to-back view for complex portfolios.

Greater service and support

Benefit from CWAN’s world-class client service and global footprint, with dedicated teams to support all CWAN products, including Beacon.

Expanded roadmap

Accelerated development for advanced risk capabilities, particularly for alternatives and structured products.

An integrated view across public and private markets.

Together, CWAN and Beacon give you the best of both worlds — automated, reliable data management and cutting-edge risk modeling — so every decision is informed, every team is aligned, and every step of the investment lifecycle is connected.

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RISK MANAGEMENT

Powerful cross-asset risk management tools for greater flexibility, efficiency, and insight.

Pre-trade structuring

Run both intraday and end-of-day risk analyses for cross-asset portfolios and price with historical or real-time data.

Post-trade management

Monitor all trades in real time, gain insight into all risk exposures, and identify potential issues.

Risk and P&L reporting

Assess and visualize exposure, risk, and financial performance across a variety of dimensions.

Stress testing and backtesting

Identify potential risks by simulating portfolio performance under various market conditions.

Scenario analysis

Model the effects of any set of market or macroeconomic conditions on a portfolio’s value, returns, and risk profile.

Value at Risk

Calculate VaR in real time and adjust risk management strategies accordingly.

PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

Portfolio management solutions built for any challenge.

Pre-trade analytics

Price trade ideas, construct sample portfolios, and run risk analyses on any mix of instruments and asset classes.

Book and portfolio editor

View your portfolio and manage portfolio and book hierarchy via a centralized dashboard.

Strategy and stress testing

Identify potential risks by simulating portfolio performance under various market conditions.

Scenario analysis

Model the effects of any set of market or macroeconomic conditions on a portfolio’s value, returns, and risk profile.

Pricing and risk reports

Scale and orchestrate on-demand and end-of-day reports with elastic compute pools that automatically scale up or down.

Cross-asset-class coverage

Leverage cross-asset portfolio management solutions for equities, fixed income, FX, credit, alternatives, commodities, and more.

SALES AND TRADING

Robust sales and trading apps to manage positions with confidence.

Instrument coverage

Integrate and customize financial instruments, pricing models, and datasets that can be seamlessly configured to slot into front-office applications.

Real-time risk analytics

View market conditions from all angles using the most up-to-date data available.

Pre-trade structuring

Easily collaborate across teams to price trade ideas, construct sample portfolios, and run risk reports and scenario analyses.

Trade execution and management

Monitor all trades in real time, gain insight into all risk exposures, and identify potential issues across books, portfolios, and asset classes.

Marking tools

Create and amend forward prices, shapes, correlations, volatilities, and other variable quantity inputs.

Workflow orchestration

Automate formerly manual tasks in the deal approval workflow, from data extraction and validation to reporting.

Accelerate time-to-value with pre-built apps.

Empower teams with the applications and modules they need to evaluate potential deals, manage risk across all asset classes, and optimize portfolios.

Price trade ideas, build sample portfolios, and run risk analyses on a mix of instruments and assets.
Identify and assess potential risks by stress-testing performance under your desired set of scenarios and market or macroeconomic conditions.
View comprehensive, cross-asset details for book, portfolio, and firm-wide holdings and orchestrate desired reporting.

Extend with Python when you need full control.

Move quant and developer expertise closer to the front line and innovate without constraint with an open and extensible set of financial engineering tools.

See details of models and analytics and modify, extend, or add your own or third-party libraries to the platform.
Leverage the intuitive UI of our cloud-native application development environment to accelerate time to market of new and innovative capabilities.
Use built-in workflow and change management tools for effective version control and governance.