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REAL-TIME PORTFOLIOMANAGEMENT,

RISK & REGULATORY SOLUTIONS FOR

FINANCIAL FIRMS

WORLDWIDE

O U R STORY

O U R CLIENTS

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CONTACT US / 2TABLE OF CONTENTS / 3OUR STORY / 4 WHO WE SERVE / 5 IMAGINE BY THE NUMBERS / 6 IMAGINE INNOVATION / 7 APPLICATION SERVICES PROVIDER / 8FINANCIAL PLATFORM / 9DATA MANAGEMENT / 10REAL-TIME RISK & COMPLIANCE / 11RISK AGGREGATION / 12LIQUID ALTERNATIVES SOLUTION / 13CONSULTING SERVICES / 14CLIENT TESTIMONIALS / 15

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Imagine Software, Inc. | 22 Cortlandt St., 32nd floor | New York, NY 10007 | 1-212-317-7600 (voice) | www.ImagineSoftware.com

Imagine Software provides real-time portfolio, risk management and regulatory solutions for the world’s leading banks, broker dealers, hedge funds, pension funds, funds of funds and asset managers. Founded in 1993, Imagine delivers institutional-grade functionality and broad cross-asset instrument support for businesses of all size and complexity. Financial professionals around the globe rely on Imagine to launch tailored products, enter new markets, adjust business strategies and scale for growth. Contact us for more information at [email protected]

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OURSTORYImagine helps financial firms of all sizes and complexity successfully navigate market risk, improve portfolio performance, deliver operational efficiencies and provide regulatory transparency – all from one integrated platform.

Real-Time Financial Risk Management

Whether your goal is to improve portfolio performance, monitor

and report global limits, perform stress tests, aggregate firm-wide

risk or deliver enhanced transparency, Imagine creates the integrated

solutions that fit your firm. Clients have access to live P&L and can

manage risk from anywhere in the world – intra-day, all day.

World-Class Technology Platform Imagine delivers the sophisticated and easy-to-use technology

that drives entire front-to-back office operations across portfolio

and risk management, operations and compliance. Our clients

use Imagine as a full-service cloud-based ASP and an enterprise

installation – we support all proprietary needs.

Imagine Software is a leading provider of real-time portfolio, risk management and regulatory solutions for financial firms worldwide.

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BANKS

Imagine provides institutional-grade

functionality and the broad cross-

asset instrument coverage that

supports every level of the firm and

effortlessly scales for growth. From

trading to operations to compliance

and more, Imagine is the front-to-

back-office engine that firms rely on

for comprehensive risk management.

BROKERAGE FIRMSBroker-dealers turn to Imagine for

our ability to deliver real-time pricing,

exposures and risk management for

the fastest-moving markets, trade-

by-trade and tick-by-tick – and for

solutions that enhance trade

reporting, performance and more.

HEDGE FUNDSImagine was the first to develop a

comprehensive compliance solution

for hedge funds facing increasing

regulatory scrutiny. Working directly

with our clients, Imagine created

a technology solution that simultaneously

tracks real-time limits, performs stress

tests and captures risk across all

portfolios.

WHO WE SERVE

FUNDS OF FUNDSFor funds that may not have direct

access to position-level data, the

Imagine Risk Aggregation Solution

(RAS) allows firms to view, compare

and report risk exposures across all

underlying funds and investments.

PENSION FUNDSWith Imagine’s advanced data and

analytics, pension funds can monitor

investment, regulatory and demographic

trends – or any other selected field –

that impacts a plan portfolio. Imagine

sources underlying data directly from

administrators and prime brokers.

ASSET MANAGERSImagine’s time-to-market in installing

proper and relevant portfolio and risk

management systems is second to

none. We have managed hundreds

of integrations and built thousands

of ready-to-go interfaces with leading

third-party systems to facilitate the

smooth transfer of data.



BY THE

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85%MORE THAN

of Imagine clients run or build applications with the Imagine

Financial Platform

DAILY PRICES ARCHIVED ON

90,000EXCHANGE-TRADED INSTRUMENTS

OVER

Multi-factor tools can shock up to

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NUMBERS

RISK-MANAGED CLIENT ASSETS

$5 TRILLION

ready-to-go interfaces

O V E R 250

of trades per second across

MILLIONSOF POSITIONS

RUN THOUSANDS

15 MILLIONDAILY TRADES


A G G R E G A T E D P O S I T I O N S

Imagine continues to

outpace the industry

with solutions and

products that address

the complex needs of

our financial clients

around the world.

Our cloud technology – the industry’s

first – is still the most innovative.

Today, users tap directly into our

technology platform to create

bespoke applications for proprietary

and other functionalities that can be

employed in a matter of days – on

their own or with Imagine, as they like.

More than 85% of Imagine’s clients

now run or build apps for a full range

of risk, portfolio management and

compliance operations.

Our newest innovation is a flexibly-

designed margin solution that allows

clients to calculate the margin

requirement on a portfolio utilizing

various exchange rules, Reg T. or

even “house rules” that a prime broker

would use. The margin requirement

calculations can be invoked

programmatically, and clients can

anticipate and avoid margin calls,

especially in turbulent markets.

Imagine’s regulatory and compliance

solutions are much in demand as

firms of all sizes look to manage the

evolving rules and reporting

requirements. Imagine’s ability to

slice and dice risk and portfolio data

helps companies simultaneously

track real-time limits, perform stress

tests, capture risk across the entire

portfolio, spot and correct compliance

breaches and deliver timely

transparency reports.

IMAGINE INNOVATION

APPLICATION SERVICES PROVIDER

With real-time pricing, security master, corporate actions processing, derived market data and 24/7 connectivity, Imagine’s ASP provides rapid, risk-free deployment of software technology, data and a full suite of services across departments and users.

A FULLY-SCALABLE SOLUTION — INTRA-DAY, EVERY DAY

The Imagine ASP solution is user friendly and provides

institutional-grade technology with broad asset class instrument

support. Our cloud-based solution can be accessed anywhere

in the world, at any time— and delivers live P&L and the ability

to manage multiple trading strategies.

w Achieve transparency through powerful and customizable risk

reporting capabilities

w Gain operational efficiencies with a hosted, integrated

system that is expertly maintained, upgraded and retains the

highest security standards worldwide

w Make informed investment decisions and confidently

manage risk

HANDS-ON DEVELOPMENT

Imagine is the only provider that manages the full chain of its hosted

solution— from software research and development to client

implementation and daily business operations. The firm’s expert

technical teams build, maintain and manage the state-of-the-art

technology and have extensive experience integrating Imagine

with all front- to back-end solutions.

INTEGRATED DATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES

Imagine’s data team processes thousands of instrument updates

and corporate actions daily. From real-time ticking market prices,

yield curves, volatility surfaces and correlations, to global security

master and corporate actions processing, Imagine delivers all

the data and services (such as end-of-day marks, archiving, rate

resets, etc.) needed for proper investment management.


The Imagine Application Services Provider (ASP) platform is a responsive solution for firms looking to upgrade their real-time portfolio management, risk and regulatory reporting capabilities. Imagine removes the burden of maintaining the world-class technology that financial services firms need to scale for growth.

“I’m continually impressed with the speed at which Imagine is able to add coverage and capabilities, as well

as its flexibility in creating new solutions that make it easy to slice and dice data

so my team can quickly see the possibilities across all of our holdings

and make more informed decisions.” HENDERSON GLOBAL INVESTORS

FINANCIAL PLATFORM

For complex business needs, clients access Imagine’s full range of custom applications and utilize our technology in a limitless manner to develop dedicated APIs and interfaces for proprietary system functionalities.

COMPREHENSIVE CROSS-ORGANIZATION SOLUTIONS

Clients looking to develop solutions for ever-more-complex

business needs tap directly into IFP’s full range of products,

services and applications that can be tailored for every client.

IFP makes building financial applications fast and easy:

w IFP provides standards-based APIs including web services,

JavaScript, Java and C# that deliver up-to-the-second data.

w Imagine supports proprietary institutional systems and works

closely with administrators worldwide.

w Clients have access to Imagine’s full-spectrum support and

consulting teams for daily and strategic developments.

The Imagine Financial Platfrom (IFP) is a cloud-based environment that provides users with programmatic access to Imagine’s risk and portfolio management analytics and data universe through standards-based web and desktop technologies.

of IMAGINE’s clients are deploying unique custom apps that cover the full range

of risk, portfolio management and

compliance operations.

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IMAGINE delivers real-time data on every listed product globally and the ability to aggregate firm-wide risk exposures, intra-day, all day.

w Portfolio Managementw Real-Time and Historical P&Lw Standard Risk Analyticsw Custom Risk Analyticsw Flexible Viewsw Data Visualizationsw Reporting

w Global Security Masterw Real-Time Market Dataw Historical Positions and Pricesw Correlations & Betasw Cross Asset Global Market Curves

Volatility • FX • Interest Rates • Dividends • Credit

w Full-Service Cloud-Based ASPw Traditional In-House Enterprise Solutionw Rapid Tailored Appsw Full-Access Imagine Marketplace

w Daily P&L w Position Maintenance of Supportw Corporate Actions Processingw IT Securityw Redundancy, Disaster Recoveryw Software Release Managementw Network and Database Administrationw Managed Third-Party Interfaces

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Imagine supplies secure and reliable market data to facilitate pricing, valuations, risk management and compliance reporting.

COMPREHENSIVE DATA MANAGEMENT

Imagine ensures that the data required to make informed

investment decisions is accurate, readily available and delivered

directly through real-time data feeds.

From real-time ticking market prices, yield curves, volatility

surfaces and correlations, to global security masters and

corporate actions processing, Imagine delivers all the data and

services (such as end-of-day marks, archiving, rate resets, etc.)

needed for investment management, as part of the comprehensive

hosted ASP solution.

Imagine Data Center

Imagine provides cost-effective access to the data needed for all

day-to-day operations so clients can make immediate and sound

investment decisions – and deliver timely regulatory reports.

Global Security Master

Accurate global security terms and conditions for listed

securities and their derivatives, convertible bonds, fixed-income

instruments, credit indices and foreign exchange products.

Real-Time Feeds

Market data, including ticking market prices, is delivered through

real-time data feeds directly to the end user, enabling fast

analysis of investment risks and opportunities.

Operational & Strategic Efficiency

Imagine delivers software, data and services from a single

integrated platform and frees up clients’ internal resources to focus

on strategic demands.

RRC gives managers the ability to perform calculations on thousands of trades per second across millions of positions – and report regulatory data within compressed timeframes.

FAST AND COMPREHENSIVE RISK ANALYSIS

The Imagine RRC solution gives managers the ability to view

intra-day risk across positions, identify distressed situations,

drill down to spot problem accounts and take immediate steps to

reset portfolio risk.

w Achieve rapid real-time processing and risk aggregation

across portfolios

w Simultaneously track regulatory limits and investment risk

to remain in compliance

w Identify potential breaches of capital utilization and perform

institutional-grade due diligence across all asset classes

THE IMAGINE REAL-TIME ADVANTAGE

Imagine delivers a tangible benefit for financial firms

worldwide with our ability to combine user-defined analytics

and highly-customizable aggregation rules into a configurable

solution. We provide risk managers with a single tool to

investigate, identify and correct risk across the portfolio.

SIMULTANEOUSLY CONDUCT CRITICAL FUNCTIONS w Perform account triage with full drill down into suspect

positions and trades

w Set limits for user-defined analytics and multiple levels of

aggregation

w Quickly address client-driven changes across all variables

w Configure accounts with limit alerts and prevent further trades

w Integrate Imagine’s metrics for “what-if” scenarios

w Perform pre-trade risk compliance checks based on liquidity,

factor exposure or any user-defined need

w Access Imagine’s margin engine

w Expand your real-time environment as needed

w Deliver timely and well-presented transparency reports

“Imagine was the only third-party system we reviewed

that delivered the analytics needed to calculate the real-time risk on

cleared arbitrage trades.”

G.H. FINANCIALS

REAL-TIME RISK & COMPLIANCE

The Imagine Real-Time Risk & Compliance (RRC) solution supports clearing houses, prime brokers and asset managers working in high-speed and high-volume environments.


The Risk Aggregation Solution (RAS) provides a comprehensive snapshot of firm-wide risk.

REVEAL YOUR TRUE RISK EXPOSURE

RAS gives financial firms that invest across multiple funds and

asset classes the ability to provide internal and external

stakeholders with meaningful risk reporting and transparency.

By independently sourcing, verifying, aggregating and normalizing

the fund-level data that investors typically cannot access —

then applying common sets of risk exposures and scenarios —

Imagine’s RAS provides a world-class framework for

comprehensive risk analyses.

RELIABLE FUND-LEVEL DATA

Imagine’s RAS sources the underlying funds’ position-level data

directly from administrators and prime brokers. Our data analyses

and slice-and-dice capabilities enable clients to:

w Calculate VaR across all underlying funds and at the total fund

level using a single methodology

w Conduct scenario and what-if analyses to assess potential

changes in risk levels

w Provide consistent sets of risk exposures and risk scenarios

IMAGINE’S RISK AGGREGATION TRACK RECORD

Imagine has more than two decades of real-time portfolio and

risk management experience working with financial institutions

worldwide. Our innovative data visualization is coupled with our

seamless loading of fund data and professional reporting

capabilities to produce an easy-to-use product for manging

complex financial data.

The Risk Aggregation Solution (RAS) provides a comprehensive snapshot of firm-wide risk.


RISK AGGREGATION

The Imagine Risk Aggregation Solution (RAS) provides clients who do not have direct access to position-level data with the ability to view, compare and report risk exposures and analyses across all underlying funds and investments.


Imagine delivers the ability to simultaneously track real-time limits, perform stress tests and capture risk across the entire portfolio to spot and correct compliance breaches.

Whether for Form PF, OPERA, 40 Act, AIFMD and newly-emerging

reporting requirements, Imagine’s technology platform can

automatically track and report firm-wide, country, sector and

industry limits, perform pre-trade compliance, deliver breach

notifications – and update as needed for the evolving rules.

Imagine’s Liquid Alternatives Solution puts time-sensitive

information right at the manager’s fingertips in a customized

dashboard that provides the ability to perform a range of

essential functions:

w Drill down to see and correct real-time limits breaches

w Create alerts for positions that are nearing limits

w Track trades that keep the fund in compliance

w Create a watch list to capture risk across the entire portfolio

w Stress the portfolio to see how market events can impact

performance

COMPREHENSIVE AND INTERACTIVE SOLUTION

Imagine Software manages and processes data on every listed

product globally and integrates it with our flexible portfolio and

risk management system. The result is a highly interactive

limits-monitoring tool that enables a fund, global administrator,

custodian or investor to keep track of positions, portfolio

restrictions, market risk and exposures.

LIQUID ALTERNATIVES SOLUTION

Asset managers of all sizes and complexity use the Liquid Alternatives Solution to expand into new markets and meet a range of regulatory demands with our comprehensive limits and tracking tools.

“Imagine was able to provide a customized, all-in-one solution

to simultaneously track regulatory limits and investment risk – which is

crucial in alerting us to potential breaches of guidelines and supports our ability to perform institutional-

grade due diligence.”

LARCH LANE ADVISORS LLC


CONSULTING SERVICES

As business models evolve, companies tap into Imagine’s consulting expertise to support cross-organizational needs and ensure that every strategic development is explored to the fullest.

BUSINESS ANALYSIS

Business leaders planning for the future work with our consulting

team to identify strategic needs, and Imagine delivers best-

practice recommendations, training and custom application

development. These services address client-specific requirements

—all while optimizing efficiencies across the firm.

CUSTOM DEVELOPMENT

Clients often identify the need for advanced customizations to take

full advantage of the extensible Imagine Trading System. Imagine’s

consulting team offers a variety of bespoke solutions to address a

full range of operational and strategic needs.

IMPLEMENTATION AND TRAINING

From onboarding through every facet of our clients’ strategic

development, Imagine is dedicated to ensuring that company

visions become reality through best-practices leadership, efficient

technologies and applications, product implementation, training

and support at every level.

Imagine Software’s consulting team works hand-in-hand with clients to ensure they derive the best value from our deep resources and targeted business solutions. Our global consulting team supports the full range of our clients’ business opportunities during the entire lifecycle of the relationship.

Client Expansion

Long-Short SupportA client began using Imagine to support the portfolio and risk management needs of its long-short business.

Expansion & Development The client expanded with a global macro strategy and additional offices.

Imagine created proprietary functionality and APIs that improved the processes for real-time risk analyses, added support to optimize specific strategies and automated manual tasks to mitigate errors.

Worldwide Risk ManagmentThe client now uses Imagine as its centralized portfolio and risk management system for its worldwide operations.

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Imagine can easily aggregate extremely complex

positions, capture risk, and manage derivatives, allowing us to successfully generate the returns expected by our

Wealth Defender investors. DAN BOSSCHER

PORTFOLIO MANAGER AT

PERENNIAL VALUE, AUSTRALIA

WHAT CLIENTS SAYFor asset managers who do not have a traditional

risk management background, or even for those

that do, Imagine can help to efficiently monitor and

assess risks, such as breaches in real-time, and

easily evaluate exposures, conduct stress testing,

and measure VaR. These are essential capabilities for firms looking to build investor confidence.

CHUDE CHIDI-OFONG CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER LEDBURY CAPITAL PARTNERS LLP | UK

SkyBridge became the

first customer to sign

up for Imagine’s new Risk

Aggregator product. Given

that risk management is so

critical to our business, we

evaluated the product and

several alternatives

very closely. It quickly became apparent that Imagine’s aggregation offering was the most sophisticated and flexible solution on the market.

TATIANA SEGALCHIEF RISK OFFICER | SKYBRIDGE CAPITAL | USA

We performed our due diligence and researched other

options but quickly realized that our old friends at Imagine

were still providing the best solution to meet our needs.

All these years later, I still trust them to look after us and help us manage our portfolios and minimize risk with their system and services.

HENRY KENNERCEO | ARROWGRASS CAPITAL PARTNERS | UK

We are delighted with the integration of

Imagine as our primary risk system

and Trading Screen as our major

Order Management System.

We needed to ensure seamless connectivity, and the Imagine and Trading

Screen teams successfully

launched full STP.

ELAINE DAVISCHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

NINE MASTS | HONG KONG

Imagine’s highly flexible and extensible risk management system is

years ahead of what is offered by most local ven-dors. This ability to scale is an essential element for us,

along with Imagine’s capacity to support risk analysis and

valuations encompassing the global derivatives market.

KONG WEI CHENGVICE GENERAL MANAGER OF RISK DEPARTMENT GF SECURITIES | CHINA

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IMAGINE real-time portfolio management, risk and regulatory solutions. Intra-day, all day.

Real-Time Solutions for Your WorldWhen markets are moving and clients, investors and regulators

are asking for transparency, can you measure your risk in real

time? Imagine gives you the ability to process and aggregate

risk across portfolios – across the entire firm – in real time.

We’ll deliver that solution for you.

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