Manager Research

Manager research teams require robust financial technologies to efficiently deliver high quality research intelligence and perform due diligence across a wide array of investment instrument products. MPI’s Stylus suite of products provide manager research groups with the tools to enhance the investment decision-making and monitoring capabilities.

MPI’s modular platform enables decision-making capacity across a diverse range of objectives within the traditional and alternative investment space: multi-level portfolio construction; advanced returns-based style analysis and quantitative modeling; performance measurement and attribution; back-testing and stress-testing; flexible and dynamic peer group construction; and much more.

The MPI suite offers a feature-rich platform with fully scalable database integration, unsurpassed analytics, incredibly flexible template/report design and automation engines. MPI’s Stylus products provide manager research organizations with best-in-class investment technology to build-upon existing research capabilities and cost-effectively pursue new areas of research.

Benefits

Enhance statistical assessment, data management, and report production capacity to enable confident, effective, and credible investment research and monitoring decisions
Integrate existing relational and vendor databases
Capitalize on MPI’s superior investment analysis, quantitative modeling and performance measurement
Create custom manager rating system, back-test methods, peer groups and analytics
Powerful asset allocation module to design model portfolios and optimize portfolio construction
Automate repetitive activities, batch processing and administration to meet specialized business rules
Maximize productivity by consolidating asset allocation, performance measurement, risk analysis and report production within one platform - no more copy/pasting across multiple applications
Enhance early detection capabilities to uncover and identify questionable investment practices and support further due diligence efforts
Integrate MPI-generated graphs, tables and text or numerical information with the output of existing reports, databases and quality control processes

Product Recommendations

Stylus Pro Suite our flagship software product, is the most advanced research and reporting platform available. Its unmatched flexibility and power make it the optimal choice of manager research professionals.
Stylus Server, a client hosted, server-based calculation and graphics engine, can connect to almost any application to provide unlimited on-the-fly analytics and graphical content.
Stylus Web is a web-based tool that provides easy-to-use, streamlined access to dynamic reports and analysis that the home office has made available.

Optional Module Recommendations

Advanced Analytics: This module provides additional analytic features, specifically the ability to create custom manager ratings, scorecards or other custom analytics.
Automation: MPI’s automation capabilities turn Stylus Pro into an incredibly powerful and flexible publishing engine, allowing "one-click" production of fact sheets, reports, marketing materials, etc.
Advanced Database: Users who require exceptional flexibility and ease-of-use in working with their proprietary databases will find many useful features in this module.
High Frequency Analysis: Capture additional portfolio dynamics; detect shifts more quickly with daily data and analyze a broad range of products using daily indices across asset classes and countries.

Client Solutions

Read more about how Wurts & Associates Manager Research group uses MPI Stylus Pro.

See what Utah Retirement Systems says about MPI Stylus Pro.

See a profile on MPI in the Financial Times including testimony from a sovereign wealth fund Stylus user on risk analysis and monitoring of managers.