Novus Signs Additional European Hedge Fund Clients

NEW YORK, Aug. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Novus, a New York-based portfolio analytics and intelligence platform that helps institutional investors and managers analyze their portfolios, announced today the addition of two new European clients, Mako Global Investors LLP and Castilium Capital. The addition of these two funds highlights a developing trend among emerging managers that are increasingly adopting new portfolio analytics technologies in order to strengthen their analytics, reporting and marketing efforts.

"Despite the fact that emerging managers tend to outperform their larger peers, institutional investors are hesitant to invest in small managers with track records less than three years," said Andrea Gentilini, Head of Europe for Novus. "To compensate for this, Novus helps managers translate their position-level data into intuitive and insightful analytics that are far more predictive about a managers' skill-sets than a three or five year return stream."

"The Novus Platform allows us to use advanced data analytics to measure, analyze and report our core strengths to current and prospective investors," said Alicia Vidler, CIO of London-based Castilium. "The Platform provides us with a robust data, analytics and technology infrastructure that's far superior to any system or database we've seen. This increased level of sophistication in portfolio analytics also instills confidence amongst our investors by giving them more visibility into the nature of the fund and the strategies we employ."

The Novus Platform provides position level transparency and P&L analytics that allow managers to analyze their portfolios across five measurable investment activities that Novus believes have the highest impact on returns:

1.   Exposure Management – How exposures are managed in relation to the market.
2.   Category Rotation – How the manager allocates to different areas of the market.
3.   Idea Selection – Which names the manager chooses to own within those areas.
4.   Position Sizing – How the manager sizes trades.
5.   Trading Acumen – How trading decisions affect returns.

"Transparency is essential these days, but overwhelming our investors with raw data instead of actionable, measureable insight is not the solution. By using advanced portfolio analytics systems such as the Novus Platform, we can more effectively articulate our value proposition to both existing and prospective investors," said Christian Thum from Mako.

To learn more about Novus, visit www.novus.com or download our latest research at www.novus.com/research.

About Novus:

Novus is a portfolio analytics and intelligence platform for institutional investors and managers. The company was founded in 2007 by a group of investors, data scientists and engineers to build a foundation that helps the world's top investors generate higher returns.

Portfolio managers, investor relations teams and operations teams use the Novus Platform in different ways, but ultimately to analyze and manage their risks, report to their investors and generate more alpha with better portfolio intelligence.

Novus is based in New York, with offices in San Francisco, California and Zurich, Switzerland. For more information, visit http://www.novus.com.

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