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Venn® by Two Sigma

Technology for allocators to support critical thinking and decision making.

For asset owners with sophisticated multi-asset class portfolios, investment processes governed by Excel and oral history are no longer enough. To meet today’s challenges, institutional investors need the data – and just as important, the infrastructure - to make consistently smart decisions and keep allocations aligned to strategy.

Through a strategic partnership with Venn® by Two Sigma, Northern Trust now offers institutional investors integrated access to a cloud-based investment infrastructure that augments traditional analytics to help systematize their investment process. Venn is designed to provide quantitative insights, better risk management, and a clearer picture of how the investment process drives (or impedes) performance.

Support the Entire Investment Process

Venn supports some of the world’s most sophisticated multi-asset class allocators. Venn’s tools are designed with flexibility and customization in mind, so no matter what type of institution you are, Venn can help support a smarter, more transparent investment process:

Set Strategic Asset Allocation

Align factor exposures with targets, on both an absolute and relative-to-benchmark basis
Build model portfolios for testing and analysis
Reduce overlapping risk exposures among managers

Optimize Portfolio Allocations

Help uncover style drift and alpha decay in new and existing managers
Understand how changes to the manager lineup impact both historical and forward-looking portfolio performance
Use the Portfolio Lab to explore different paths/tactics to achieve your strategic objectives

Improve Manager Evaluation

Decompose a manager’s return and risk into beta and alpha components
Develop performance reporting and benchmark comparisons
Competitor analysis to inform strategy review and/or product development
Estimate daily performance for monthly- and quarterly-valued holdings

Manage Total Portfolio Risk

Build a comprehensive picture of total risk across internal and external portfolios
Stress test portfolios to estimate the kinds of market events or historical periods that could most harm the portfolio
Develop risk reporting for monitoring and for board presentations

Remove the Guesswork

Where conventional, Excel-based portfolio modeling practices limit efficiency and make collaboration a challenge, Venn allows for online collaboration and transparency to the entire investment team, as well as access to extensive and powerful analytics that teams can use to help objectively analyze their investments.

With automated API-based integration to Northern Trust and powered by Two Sigma’s extensive research, including their proprietary Two Sigma Factor Lens, you can use Venn to help your organization:

Explore

Integrate returns and attribution data from Northern Trust and explore Venn’s library of more than 100,000 pre-loaded public funds and indexes.

Access portfolio information that is updated automatically through an integration with your Northern Trust account
Leverage Venn’s library for easy benchmarking
Search for new potential investments

Analyze

Analyze your investment performance, decompose risk into factors, understand sensitivities to market events, and more.

Identify style drift
Isolate factor vs potential alpha performance drivers
Stress test an investment with drawdown and scenario analysis

Evaluate

Evaluate an investment within the context of your broader portfolio to identify hidden or overlapping exposures and ensure alignment to your strategy and investment guidelines.

Perform what-if analysis on the fly
Better understand the impact of manager hire/fire decisions
Optimize your portfolio’s asset allocation based on your organization’s constraints and objectives

Collaborate

Share insights and analyses with team members and collaborate far more efficiently than traditional Excel and email-based processes.

Easily export and share analyses
Instantly access your teammate’s work in the platform
Customize your Venn workspace

See it in action

Schedule a consultation and demo to learn how Two Sigma’s Venn can help your firm formalize, digitize, and optimize manager evaluation, portfolio construction, and more.

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Integrated Support for Your Whole Office

Venn is one piece of a spectrum of solutions on our open platform to support your entire business. Our ecosystem of proprietary, vended, and partnered solutions helps meet the strategic, operational, and technological needs of our clients’ Whole Office.

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Northern Trust & Venn by Two Sigma

Northern Trust Enters Strategic Agreement with Two Sigma to Provide Leading Quantitative Analytics Capabilities. Venn® by Two Sigma will offer solutions that can help Northern Trust clients make more informed investment decisions driven by sophisticated analytics and research, designed for allocators.