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.
Gain broad visibility of all forms of risk, across all asset classes, and distill it into actionable insights with an open and unified platform.
Elastic, cloud-native infrastructure designed for speed and scale.
Modular, cross-asset financial applications and instrument support.
Foundation for efficiency across the risk lifecycle through custom AI agents
Purpose-built for energy and commodities to equity and derivatives.
Beacon by CWAN
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.
Backed by cloud-native infrastructure, Beacon delivers faster enhancements and new features.
Advanced risk modeling with embedded agentic AI connected to CWAN’s real-time data foundation, delivering a unified front-to-back view for complex portfolios.
Benefit from CWAN’s world-class client service and global footprint, with dedicated teams to support all CWAN products, including Beacon.
Accelerated development for advanced risk capabilities, particularly for alternatives and structured products.
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.
RISK MANAGEMENT
Run both intraday and end-of-day risk analyses for cross-asset portfolios and price with historical or real-time data.
Monitor all trades in real time, gain insight into all risk exposures, and identify potential issues.
Assess and visualize exposure, risk, and financial performance across a variety of dimensions.
Identify potential risks by simulating portfolio performance under various market conditions.
Model the effects of any set of market or macroeconomic conditions on a portfolio’s value, returns, and risk profile.
Calculate VaR in real time and adjust risk management strategies accordingly.
PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
Price trade ideas, construct sample portfolios, and run risk analyses on any mix of instruments and asset classes.
View your portfolio and manage portfolio and book hierarchy via a centralized dashboard.
Identify potential risks by simulating portfolio performance under various market conditions.
Model the effects of any set of market or macroeconomic conditions on a portfolio’s value, returns, and risk profile.
Scale and orchestrate on-demand and end-of-day reports with elastic compute pools that automatically scale up or down.
Leverage cross-asset portfolio management solutions for equities, fixed income, FX, credit, alternatives, commodities, and more.
SALES AND TRADING
Integrate and customize financial instruments, pricing models, and datasets that can be seamlessly configured to slot into front-office applications.
View market conditions from all angles using the most up-to-date data available.
Easily collaborate across teams to price trade ideas, construct sample portfolios, and run risk reports and scenario analyses.
Monitor all trades in real time, gain insight into all risk exposures, and identify potential issues across books, portfolios, and asset classes.
Create and amend forward prices, shapes, correlations, volatilities, and other variable quantity inputs.
Automate formerly manual tasks in the deal approval workflow, from data extraction and validation to reporting.
Empower teams with the applications and modules they need to evaluate potential deals, manage risk across all asset classes, and optimize portfolios.
Move quant and developer expertise closer to the front line and innovate without constraint with an open and extensible set of financial engineering tools.
John Stecher Chief Technology Officer, Blackstone
Dirk Manelski Managing Director, Chief Technology Officer, PIMCO
Jeff Robertson Head of Retail Distribution, Enablement and Operations, TD Asset Management
Managing Director, SMBC Capital Markets
David Dawson Executive Director, Co-Head Systematic Institutional Banking & Markets, Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Chief Risk Officer, Global Atlantic Financial Group
See how Beacon by CWAN gives leading asset managers, banks, hedge funds, and energy and commodity companies a competitive edge.
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