Optimisation & Factor Analytics
Factor models, risk models and optimisers that turn an investment view into position weights within constraints.
We currently map 17 vendors in optimisation & factor analytics within portfolio construction, 8 with detailed profiles covering funding, size, and positioning. The landscape below shows who leads, who challenges, and how each platform approaches the problem.
From optimiser maths to constraint libraries
The optimisation maths is commoditised. Value now sits in the constraint library — mandate rules, liquidity budgets and turnover limits encoded so the output is actually tradeable.
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