lifetime cost analysis

Enhanced pre-trade decision making for portfolio managers or traders

What is lifetime cost analysis?

Making an informed decision, gives you improved returns and an edge over the competition.


Our service gives portfolio managers the ability to make complex trading decisions with high quality information to hand.

Consider that finding the optimum trade now requires pre-trade knowledge of:


The impact on Initial Margin


The trade routing requirements


The impact on Limits


The impact on collateral availability


Once all these are taken into account our service enables you to understand:


The cheapest overall execution route options


The cost consumption by the trade(s) in margin, collateral, fees and funding


The effect of the strategy over its entire lifetime


features

Our Lifetime Cost Analysis service can:


Provide an analysis of “what-if?” trades to develop a strategy


Show the cheapest path to clearing


Show which CCPs you could execute via, and your limits with FCMs


Apply the correct execution and clearing routing rules



Check FCM limits


Calculate the cost of collateral


Recommend the best execution option given all the constraints


Support all markets including cleared OTC, uncleared OTC, cleared ETD and PB


compare with

Our Margin Comparison service provides an immediate analysis of a proposed trade execution. This service provides tactical insight into the execution options based on your current portfolio, incoming quotes and possible routing.

benefits


Have insight into the real ‘all in’ cost of a trade over its lifetime


Analyse and compare all possible CCP and FCM options for margin and holding costs



Move beyond ‘best price’ into lifetime price and long-term planning


Give your clients the best deal possible


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View the lifetime cost, IM, DV01, Limits and Cost Comparison of a Strategy

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