The goal of the features guide is to explain the import features of the Cinnamon Core product.
Table of Contents
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Financial Instruments | Currencies, currency factors and rounding Securities: shares, bonds, derivates, non-bankables Bond events and ACI Accounts: current accounts, money market accounts, active/passive loans, technical accounts Currency forwards Instrument attributes and segments
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Investment Structure | Investment structure tree: mandate, portfolio, depot, position are all “targets” Position types: security position, account position, currency forward
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Consolidation and Context | Consolidations are an arbitrary set of assets seen in a currency Mandate, free and ad-hoc consolidations Targets can be added to or removed from consolidations Positions can be added or removed via attribute filters Overridable logic when to include portfolio and mandate fees The current consolidation and default period define the context The context is used for analysis and ad-hoc reporting
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Transactions | Transactions correspond to a business event Transactions consist of a series of balanced booking operations Booked transactions produce bookrows Bookrows indicate their meaning via booking codes Transaction types are parametrisable, extensible and historised
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Market Data | Price and rate types and sources Manual price and rate overrides Mandate specific prices and rates Pluggable price and rate finding logic
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Position Keeping | Positions are kept separately for each consolidation Bookrows for each target detail movements, income and expenses Daily states for each target market value and flows Bookrows and target states always reflect the current state of transactions and market data Bookrows and target states are persisted or calculated on demand Bookrows and target states are the basis for all anlysis, reporting and accounting Booking order by value date, trade date or booking date
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Valuation | Security and currency valuation Bond ACI calculation, day count conventions and ACI overriding Account ACI calculation, day count conventions and interest scales Currency forward valuation Bond figure calculation
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Return & Risk | Consistent calculations based on target states Multiple, parametrisable net returns based on bookrows Integration of external performance history
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Accounting | Always consistent with analysis and reporting Powerful, rule based charts of accounts model supports any accounting standard Any consolidation is suitable for accounting, including single positions Ad-hoc accounting over the current context Closing valuation methods (m2m, lcd, …) Opening and closing bookings Soft and hard closings Opening balance closings Multiple closing chains per consolidation, chart of accounts, valuation method Restarting of closing chains after charts of accounts change
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Benchmarking | Composite, rebalanced benchmarks on indices, currencies, securities, consolidations, zero return, with yearly return offset Periodic and explicit rebalancing Strategies over multiple and hierarchical segmentations Global segmentable strategy benchmark, or segment specific benchmarks
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Reporting | Any consolidation is suitable for reporting, including single positions Ad-hoc reporting over the current context From configurable asset lists to sophisticated multi-dimensional return attributions Cinnamon Reporting offers multi channel, automated mass reporting, customer portal etc.
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Import & Export | Well defined JSON interface to adapt to external systems Automated or manually triggered import All data or a mandate’s complete data is exportable in JSON format
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Administration | System parameters Instrument and target attributes Business calendars Base segmentations User and organisation (tenant) management and authorisation Administrative functions to control and reset state
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