Concepts Guide

The goal of the concepts guide is to introduce all important concepts of the Cinnamon Core product.

Chapter	Contents	Terms defined
Introduction	What is “Cinnamon Core”? Key differentiating factors of Cinnamon Core	Cinnamon Core
Financial Instruments	Currencies Securities, Accounts and Currency Forwards Events and ACI Instrument attributes and segments	Currency, Security, Instrument Type, Properties and Segments
Investment Structure	Investment structure tree Position types All structure tree nodes are transaction targets	Mandate, Portfolio, Depot, Security Position, Account Position, Currency Forward, Target
Consolidation and Context	Consolidations are a set of targets seen in a currency Analysis, reporting and accounting happens within a context	Consolidation, Mandate/Free/Ad-hoc Consolidation, Analysis Period
Transactions	Transactions are the first source of position keeping Transactions correspond to a business event Transaction types are parametrisable, extensible and historised	Transaction, Transaction Type
Market Data	Market data is the second source of position keeping Prices types, rate types and market data providers	Security Master, Security Price, Index, FX Rate, Market Interest Rate, Market Data Provider
Position Keeping	Each consolidation maintains its history of bookrows and target states	Consolidation History, Bookrow, Target State
Valuation	Security and currency valuation ACI calculation Currency forward valuation Bond figure calculation	Price Finding, Rate Finding, ACI, FX Forward Valuation, Bond Yield & Duration
Performance Measurement	Return and risk from position history Multiple, parametrisable net returns Request period versus performance period KPIs	MWR, TWR and IRR, Gross and Net, Performance Period, Volatility, Value at Risk
Accounting	Rule based charts of accounts Closing chains Valuation methods	Chart of Accounts, Balance, Profit & Loss, Closing, Closing Chain
Benchmarking	Benchmarking with strategies Composite, rebalanced benchmarks Periodic and explicit rebalancing Strategies over multiple and hierarchical segmentations Benchmarking periods	Strategy, Benchmark, Rebalancing, Contribution and Attribution, Tracking Error, Information Ratio
Reporting	Ad-hoc reporting over the current context Seamless integration with Cinnamon Reporting	Ad-hoc Report
Import & Export	JSON interface for bulk import from and export to external systems Import management for daily custodian and market data imports Reconciliation with assets reported by custodians	Import Package, Import Object, Reconciliation, Exports
API	Comprehensive REST API for user interfaces and external systems	REST API, API Authorisation
Administration	System parameters Instrument and target attributes and segmentations User and organisation (tenant) management and authorisation System management	User, Organisation, Authorisation, Parameter, Administrative Functions, Configuration

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