Prime Brokerage

Goldman Sachs Prime Brokerage has developed the leading front-to-back global technology platform, empowering our clients to manage their businesses in a highly automated operating environment. Our main objective is to provide investment managers with the tools and services necessary to help them focus on managing money, maximizing trading performance, scaling their businesses and attracting new sources of capital.

Our strong commitment to technology and innovation has led us to develop many practices and techniques that have become the industry standard. We continually invest in the development of new products and enhance our offerings in order to deliver to our clients a premium product and tailored technology solutions.

Our Process
Goldman 360 provides our clients with online access to the Prime Brokerage portal. Additionally, Goldman 360 provides our clients with access to the global online resources of Goldman Sachs, including trading ideas, investment opportunities, market insights, personalized access to investment research and more.

Through strategic acquisitions, partnerships and investments, Goldman Sachs offers a fully integrated, front-to-back business solution supporting investment managers throughout the investment cycle. Services include order management, trade executions, soft dollar services and research solutions, multi-product and multi-currency portfolio accounting, calculation of monthly NAV and a comprehensive suite of portfolio management tools and analytics.

We understand the importance of supporting our diverse and global clients across a wide range of investment strategies and products. With this in mind, we have developed a comprehensive and highly customizable reporting platform that enables us to deliver tailored business solutions to our clients on one seamless platform, across many products and markets.

Key benefits of our Prime Brokerage platform include:

• Sophisticated risk analytics and performance measurement reporting
• Real-time reporting and portfolio analytics
• Ease of use: desktop solutions tailored to each user (e.g. portfolio managers, traders, operations)
• Synthetic products integration across our Prime Brokerage reporting platform
• Seamless integration and established connectivity with industry-wide technology solutions and service providers
• Access to specialized reporting and technology consultants
• Flexible information access and delivery via data files and reports
• Global remote connectivity via secure internet connection
• Dedicated 24-hour Global Prime Brokerage Support Desk

Working closely with our clients, we have developed over 700 reports accommodating the unique reporting needs of our diverse client base. Our global team of technology consultants works with our clients to simplify the setup process and deliver customized reporting solutions.

Security of our clients’ information is of paramount importance at Goldman Sachs Prime Brokerage. We have installed state-of-the-art encryption technologies, a secure log-in process and a comprehensive protocol for disaster recovery.

Synthetics
Our Synthetics and Prime Brokerage product offerings are seamlessly linked, both in terms of coverage and consolidated reporting through our Prime Brokerage platform.

This level of integration is a key differentiator in providing clients with several important benefits:

• Integrated reporting, including both physical and synthetic positions
• Cross-product margining between physical and synthetic products
• Integrated asset servicing for physical products and pay-out structuring for synthetic products
• Risk reporting, reflecting both physical and synthetics positions, to assess portfolio metrics across products