ALPHA\ ˈal-fə \
n.The premium earned through better decisions.
prop. n.The science, information, and alignment to make better decisions.
Northfield · OpenFinance · Market76
Integrated decision-making software and information for institutional investors
of the world's largest investors run on our risk models.
in AUM serviced for the world's most exacting and respected financial institutions.
of the world's largest financial institutions power portfolio construction on the platform.
Global risk is running well above its ten-year norm — elevated, but shy of the last cycle’s peaks.
The index reads 100 when market risk sits exactly at its trailing ten-year average. Above 100 is a riskier-than-normal regime; below 100 is calmer than normal.
Metrics describe the past.AI optimizes the present.Decision science models the future.
ALPHA delivers the research, analytics, and software institutions use to make better decisions. The platform provides reasoning architecture — risk models, investment optimization and alignment, portfolio implementation, and a semantic data layer that delivers every engine and piece of information anywhere, in any form.
ALPHA works at every level — from managing risk in one portfolio, to weighting it across a sprawling family of investors, to shaping the strategic DNA of an organization through the decisions of thousands of agents, quickly and at scale.
Weighs risk and reward: industry-defining decision-science research, risk models, optimization engines, and portfolio implementation.
Connects everything: within the ALPHA ecosystem, across your organization's walls, and out to your network of clients and partners.
Patented preference alignment: suggest courses of action that reflect each client's goals, and explain them clearly — at scale.
Science.
Decision science enhances your reasoning; risk, preference, and transaction modeling to understand options and implications; portfolio optimization and implementation to scale it.
Information.
Over $4T in AUM serviced across thousands of institutions, reflected across ALPHA with consistent semantics.
PAIX semantics · ABOR / PBOR as a service · Financial Data Lake · Systems integration · Data aggregation
Alignment.
Preference modeling is critical to better decision making because all goals — for institutions or individuals — are personal.
ALPHA | View · ALPHA | Narrative · Performance Evaluation · Decision automation
Michele Gambera, Ph.D., CFA — formerly Head of Strategic Asset Allocation at UBS Asset Management — joins Northfield as Head of Economics, leading the economics outreach of its academic decision science initiative with universities and researchers.
Author and data scientist Kaiser Fung — founding director of Columbia's Applied Analytics master's and author of Numbers Rule Your World — joins Northfield to lead quantitative research, building the next generation of risk analytics for AI investing.
ALPHA risk and analytics will run inside SS&C's investment platform infrastructure.
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