Hedge Funds
Bloomberg Professional Services
The complete solution
Bloomberg provides your fund’s key players with the tools and support they need to power absolute return. The Bloomberg Terminal gives you access to end-to-end solutions, world-class data, award-winning news, sophisticated analytics and an extensive community of financial professionals and business experts to help you address the challenges of running a hedge fund.
Hedge fund start-ups
From drafting a business plan through building a team, finding partners, choosing a structure and raising capital, the Bloomberg hedge fund start-up guide offers advice for every stage of the start-up process, with guidance on best practices that can set your fund up for success.
Research, news and idea generation
Tap into research from more than 1,500 brokers and independent providers. Use Bloomberg Intelligence data and analysis to gather independent insight at the industry, sector and market levels to inform standout research.
Integrate your proprietary content into the Bloomberg Terminal to collaborate quickly and efficiently. Our Research Management solutions are flexible enough to handle multiple asset classes, content types and permissions across a range of groups.
Complement this research with up-to-the-minute, market-moving financial stories from news and monitor real-time economic data and forecasts by region, country and event type.
Use Bloomberg’s advanced screening tools to generate investment ideas across multiple asset classes. Leverage multiple fundamental data sets and access source documents that are searchable, customizable and downloadable into Microsoft Excel® for complete transparency.
Determine the impact of different risks on security prices and complete relative value and comparable analysis using Bloomberg’s cross-asset data. Quickly educate yourself on a company, related industry, credit outlook and any litigation or government issues that could impact the company using Bloomberg Intelligence company primers.
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Execution management
Bloomberg’s Execution Management Solutions enable multi-asset, broker-neutral decision support, liquidity discovery, electronic trading, order analytics and performance assessment in global equity, futures and options markets.
The first commingled trading platform for OTC swap trading and ALLQ Derivatives, Bloomberg’s Fixed Income Trading (FIT) platform allows buy-side investors to review indicative prices and execute directly with dealers on the Terminal. The platform provides a full view of dealer liquidity and multi-currency details on interest rates swaps (IRS) and credit default swaps (CDS).
Bloomberg also provides a commission-free electronic trading platform with FXGO — for execution of FX spot, outright, swap, NDF and option transactions, as well as deposits and precious metals.
Our agency broker, Bloomberg Tradebook, partners with firms like yours to provide high-quality liquidity, market insight and customized solutions, including tailored independent research, trade execution services and commission management analysis.
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Post-execution and compliance
Leverage our pre- and post-trade Transaction Cost Analysis tool that enables you to create, schedule and distribute custom reports—assisting you in gaining insight into your trading process and assess transaction costs and trader/broker performance. Quickly identify outliers and quantify the value added to your investment process using dozens of different benchmarks for comparison.
Access Bloomberg Vault, our end-to-end, managed archiving and eDiscovery platform. Specifically designed to handle high volumes of data, Bloomberg Vault gives hedge funds a reliable, cost-effective way to meet stringent legal and regulatory requirements.
Our Regulatory & Accounting Products combine premier data, analytics and service to help your firm comply with and adjust to new regulations—specifically in the areas of systemic risk reduction, capital adequacy and solvency, transparency and compliance.
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Portfolio and risk management
Our Portfolio & Risk Analytics tool enables you to analyze your portfolio’s historical performance using factor-based or transaction-based attribution, to evaluate portfolio structure and to monitor daily performance in real time. Understand potential sources of risk using a multi-factor risk model and make better investment decisions by testing out hypothetical scenarios with our trade simulation and portfolio optimization tools.
Our Asset and Investment Manager (AIM) delivers global, multi-asset solutions for portfolio management, trading, compliance and operations. AIM is used by more than 14,000 professionals in nearly 90 countries at more than 700 client firms, including some of the world’s largest asset managers, hedge funds, insurance companies, pension funds and government agencies.
Take a deeper dive with our Multi-Asset Risk System (MARS), which features practical solutions to monitor and manage front office risk, market risk, counterparty risk and collateral for a multi-asset portfolio of equity, FX, interest rate, inflation and commodity derivatives instruments.
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Liquidity and data management
Formulate trading strategies and assess the liquidity risk of your positions with Bloomberg’s Liquidity Assessment tool. Quantitatively estimate a bond’s liquidity using a methodology that combines traditional market impact models with machine learning techniques to account for all relevant factors influencing liquidity.
Get the information you need to empower your enterprise with Bloomberg Data Feeds. Gain access to consolidated real-time market data, reference data and regulatory data, along with more than 5,000 news stories a day from over 120 countries.
Get transparent, evaluated price information for OTC derivatives and structured products with our independent pricing service, BVAL, which uses disciplined, highly automated and deeply algorithmic processes to provide the consistent, reliable results your firm demands.
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Marketing and community
Track trends, manage key investors, control your message and help your firm raise capital using one integrated platform on the Terminal. Subscribe to the Bloomberg Brief — Hedge Funds digital newsletter for weekly analysis and commentary of the hedge fund industry. Use the Mandate Portal to conduct and monitor searches by institutional investors for fund managers and gain insight into the strategies being targeted by investors. Add your fund to Bloomberg’s hedge fund database to make it easier for privileged investors to discover you.
Communicate with key stakeholders with ease and precision using tools including Instant Bloomberg (IB), Bloomberg Message (MSG) and shared notes. Stay in touch 24/7 by accessing the Bloomberg Terminal on your PC, laptop and mobile devices from anywhere in the world, at any time.
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Solution suite brochure
Wherever your hedge fund is in its life cycle, Bloomberg has the data, solutions and industry network to take you to the next level. Our Hedge Fund Solution Suite lays out a framework of practical solutions that can help you make smarter, more informed financial technology decisions. Bloomberg provides your fund’s key players with the tools and support they need to power absolute return — which is why Bloomberg is the choice for leading hedge funds. Download the Hedge fund solution suite brochure to learn more.