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Charles River IMS vs. Fidelity Active Trader Pro

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    Charles River IMS

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AThe Charles River Investment Management Solution (Charles River IMS) automates front and middle office processes for buy-side firms. The solution helps enable accurate and timely investment decision support for institutional and wealth managers, alternative investment firms, insurers and asset owners. Charles River IMS helps clients streamline operations, reduce risk, and improve reliability.N/A

    Fidelity Active Trader Pro

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AActive Trader Pro is Fidelity's customizable trading platform for the desktop and optimized for online trading technology. The solution offers real-time insights, visual snapshots to monitor investments, and trading tools.N/A
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    Charles River IMSFidelity Active Trader Pro
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    Charles River IMSFidelity Active Trader Pro
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details$0 commissions for online US stock, ETF, and option trades. Margin rates among the most competitive in the industry—as low as 4.00%. No minimums to open an account.
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    State Street
    Chose Charles River IMS
    Charles River Portfolio Management & Risk Analytics is a state of the art company which owns state of the art products Charles River Portfolio Management & Risk Analytics. If you are considering long term value, capital preservation strategy and pension funds management that is …
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    User Ratings
    Charles River IMSFidelity Active Trader Pro
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    User Testimonials
    Charles River IMSFidelity Active Trader Pro
    Likelihood to Recommend
    State Street
    If your are large asset management company focused mostly on interest rate products and you are large institutional trader your way is the use of Charles River Portfolio Management & Risk Analytics account which is most reputable custodian institution which offers superior tool for bonds trading - Charles River IMS. Charles River Portfolio Management & Risk Analytics is focused on large bond traders, so is not offered for small hedge funds. It is not appropriate if you are small account holder and focused more on stock market offerings, margin trading and less focused on custodian reputation. There is no separate risk module for trading group risk management.
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    Fidelity Investments (FMR LLC)
    Fantastic for the planning and execution of trades, as follows: (1) Offers nearly 50 market filters, including technical, social sentiment, and custom options filters, (2) supports analysis of option market sentiment with volatility and open interest statistics, as well as the day’s biggest trades, (3) functionality to trade equities, ETFs, simple and complex option strategies with extended-hours and directed trading capabilities, (4) capacity to create and save up to 50 orders and place them at the right time, (5) helps manage risk and profit potential with conditional orders, (6) allows placement of a variety of simple and complex multi-leg option orders, (7) provides ability to monitor portfolio with streaming quotes, real-time gain and loss, streaming balances, and streaming order status updates, and (8) allows creation of personalized layouts to see the market and portfolio information that’s important to you Set trade defaults, create shortcuts, and use hotkeys to quickly and efficiently navigate through the platform.
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    Pros
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    • Focused on bonds
    • Risk approache based on counterparties risk measurement
    • Buid in scenario strategies and testing
    • CDS are available for trading (exlusive offering)
    • Portfolio construction
    • Yield analytics
    • Exotics: SWAPs, SWAPtions
    • Sophisticated options analytics
    • Currency forwards (exclusive offering)
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    Fidelity Investments (FMR LLC)
    • Customizable to display information the way I want to see it.
    • Clean, straightforward interface to let me quickly access information from cursory overview to detailed tax information.
    • Equipped with good security measures.
    • Very user friendly.
    • The software has some nice features, including watch lists, market news, alerts, and real-time balances. The program also displays tax-lot information in real-time. There are advanced options tools as well. Active Trader Pro is able to submit up to 20 orders at once using a multi-order ticket.
    • Active Trader Pro has many available features. Alerts can be set, watch lists can be created, and market news can be followed. Balances are shown in real-time. Each of these elements can be assigned to its own window. Tax-lot info can be shown in real-time as well. A multi-order trading ticket can submit 20 orders at once. Up to 50 orders can be built and saved.
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    Cons
    State Street
    • Equities - microstructure to consider detection of iceberg orders
    • Build in algos for large trades execution
    • Corporate or Banking level platform - not focused on mid sized business
    • SAP connectivity
    • Only Charles River Portfolio Management & Risk Analytics accounts
    • No trading group accounts capabilities
    • Needs arbitrage trading algo: spread, statistical, merger for stocks
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    Fidelity Investments (FMR LLC)
    • Basic explanations of what the functionality is for those who do not fully understand how 401ks work
    • Explaining the difference between Roth and traditional 401Ks
    • More availability for 1:1 appointments with employees
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    Usability
    State Street
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    Fidelity Investments (FMR LLC)
    I have never had any issues using the product, my biggest complaint is that admins cannot change their usernames and the ones that are generated are very hard to remember.
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    Alternatives Considered
    State Street
    Charles River Portfolio Management & Risk Analytics is a state of the art company which owns state of the art products Charles River Portfolio Management & Risk Analytics. If you are considering long term value, capital preservation strategy and pension funds management that is the right choice if holdien one account versus several to get systematic diversification. You can run even department of banks treasury with use of Charles River Portfolio Management & Risk Analytics. So good but focused on large investors needs and diversification focus.
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    Fidelity Investments (FMR LLC)
    Highly comparable. thinkorswim was a great platform and Fidelity has achieved competing against it. Ease of learning curve with training and the ability to configure exactly what the user wants to see is a huge plus. The customizations available are a major bonus and Fidelity's overall customer experience is a beacon in the marketplace.
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    Return on Investment
    State Street
    • Neutral. We are in system migration process.
    • We expect to get our P&L less volatile (+/- 5%). More international bonds in a mix
    • Top custodian is our first priority
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    Fidelity Investments (FMR LLC)
    • It shows our workforce we are choosing vendors that are adapting to the modern age.
    • It helps us solve a technological gap related to the workforce that does not have access to desktops or laptops.
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