Middle Office & IBOR

LUSID is an API-first, SaaS-native investment data management platform . To get started, we'll explore fundamental principles and demonstrate core capabilities by using LUSID to perform the following task: “As a UK asset manager, I run a single ...

These diagrams are opinionated. They do not display every relationship or field in order to keep them comprehensible. To drill down into an entity, examine the schemas section of the API reference. For example, for the PortfolioGroup entity: ht...

An instrument mastered in LUSID represents a financial asset you own or have exposure to. Every transaction booked into LUSID in any portfolio must resolve to an instrument stored in the central repository that is the LUSID instrument master. See...

A portfolio is a store of economic activity in a set of instruments mastered in the LUSID Security Master. There are three types of portfolio: A transaction portfolio enables you to load transactions and other activity in order to build hold...

A transaction registers a change to the quantity and/or cost of an instrument held in a transaction portfolio , for example the purchase of a number of BP shares at a particular price, or the exchange of a quantity of GBP for USD at a particula...

A corporate action is an elective activity that impacts the shareholders and/or bondholders of a company, for example a dividend, stock split or spin off. See the list of dedicated corporate action events . You can create a corporate action sou...

A holding is your position in a specific instrument in a particular transaction portfolio . LUSID is a transaction-based system. It does not maintain a static record of your holdings in a portfolio but rather generates them on demand from th...

You must upload market data to at least one LUSID market data store in order to perform a valuation . The quantity and quality of market data required, and the store or stores to load it in, depend upon the types of instruments you wish to value...

LUSID enables you to value: One or more transaction portfolios. All the portfolios in a portfolio group. Notional quantities of arbitrary instruments. This might be useful to value ‘holdings’ without setting up a containing portfolio. A ...

LUSID has a tax calculation engine that can be triggered to automatically calculate and store amounts of tax due for transactions that match a set of tax rules. You can then use transaction types to determine what happens to these tax amounts: sim...