No matter which accounts and investments your client holds, you want to be able to capture, process, view and present all relevant information about and to your client in a transparent, accessible manner. 

Nutcracker’s Portfolios V4 offers you: 

• Multi data source, multi instruments (including Equities, derivatives, CFDs, unit trusts etc) and multi-currencies
• Client linking to multiple accounts from multiple sources
• Client  summary views showing total (aggregated) portfolio values, changes with drill downs to account summaries
• Client detail views 
  • Client contact and location information with account details (source, instrument type, instrument value, cash balance
  • Charting with views of account and instrument breakdowns (pie charts),  performance tracking
  • Accounts detail views including: holdings, positions, financial history and transactions
• Analysis and ad-hoc queries - of holdings in share, brokerage analysis, financial position etc.
• Statements and Reporting - PDF format customer portfolio reports specifically for Portfolio Valuations, Brokers Notes, relevant statements.

Additional Nutcracker portfolio management functionality includes:

• Extra Client Details - includes all client details such as statement frequencies, additional addresses, management fee details, income distribution and extra notes.
• Portfolio Modeling - allows users to model portfolios based on sectors, stocks, weightings and preferences, compare client holdings to models or compare multiple accounts to models.
• Portfolio Performance - calculates portfolio performance for selected accounts or groups of accounts according to pre-configured or ad-hoc principles.
• Groups - static or dynamic building of groups for use elsewhere in the system.

The Settlement Service handles all of the back office and administration functions associated with financial trading, including the following functionality:

• Management Fees - allows for the rule based management of different fee scales, structures, calculation methods and so on.
• Management Fees Approval - works with the above module. After management fees have been calculated, users can change fees and then approve or reject fees.
• Intermediaries Admin - allows users to manage intermediaries, calculate different values such as fixed amounts, percentage of brokerage and percentage of fees, auto rollovers, approvals and uploads.
• Income Distribution Admin - caters for changes and approvals.
• Authorisations - allows for the controlling and logging of changes to client information not managed by BDA, including address changes and new management fee structures.
• Customer Information Management (CIM) - allows brokers to add custom fields and data to regular BDA accounts, acting as a mini CRM system.

The FIX order routing module offers one stop connectivity to multiple exchanges, multiple instrument types and multiple brokers. The module allows for custom business logic and risk rules for order routing to any connected counter party and offers various front-ends for connectivity. You are able to communicate electronically with a host of financial market participants through just one connection and expand your business reach efficiently.

Below you'll find an schematic overview of the Nutcracker FIX Architecture.

Competing for private clients in a tight market entails that you want to offer outstanding information and the best service available. An excellent way to do this is by providing your customers access to a website that will give them real time market info and the latest market news combined with an update of their portfolio.

With the Nutcracker Web Portals you are able to build your own trading website in a quick and easy manner, no technical knowledge is required. Nutcracker Web Portals has an excellent modular offering of the various elements you would want to include in your website like:  

• Data views – market views, stock info and watch lists
• Order routing – order entry to multiple markets and instruments (Equities, SSF, CFDs and FIX Orders) and order book screens
• Portfolio views –  today’s holdings, holdings history, financial history and financial transaction
• Alerting – price alerts, trailing price, CFD stop order, SSF stop order and stop order
• Statement printing   –  creates JSE reports, ad-hoc reports and customer reports that can be viewed by traders and end users. These can be exported to PDF, CSV or HTML and sent to users on demand.    
• Live chat systems - http://www.123flashchat.com/dotnetnuke-chat.html
• Streaming prices into watchlists
• Technical analysis

  You select the relevant modules and quickly build your own state-of-the-art website choosing the design, look & feel and navigation that best suit your corporate image.

Nutcracker Web Portals allows for excellent security measures  at user-, role- and module-level.

It is possible to host the website yourself or have Nutcracker host it for you on the Nutcracker Nexus  ensuring excellent uptime and connectivity. You will have easy access to the website to administer, update and adjust where necessary.