For the Fund Whose Edge is in the Analysis, Not the Subscription
Institutional analytical capability without the Terminal cost structure.
You run a fund whose edge is in the quality of the analysis, not the volume of the data feed. The Terminal subscriptions across your desks are an annual cost that is difficult to justify against the use your team actually makes of them, but the alternatives at the prosumer tier are inadequate to professional work. The middle ground, an institutional-quality analytical product priced for a firm rather than a single institutional desk, is what Drusus Institution provides.
What You Will Use Most
- The AI analyst chat, with the highest-grade model, for the analytical work that supports portfolio decisions.
- Cross-market intelligence on HKEX, NYSE, NASDAQ, LSE, and the major European venues, with proper cross-listing reconciliation.
- Monte Carlo scenario modelling and full Value-at-Risk analysis on the fund's positions.
- Drusus Daily, the morning and evening brief, dispatched in the time zone of each user.
- Strategy Builder for the structural work that supports thesis-driven repositioning.
What This Tier is Not
It is not a replacement for a full-stack institutional data feed if your strategy depends on tick-level execution data, alternative-data integration, or the operational integration with order-management systems that the established institutional vendors provide. Drusus is an analytical product, not a trading infrastructure. For funds whose work is dominated by analysis rather than execution, that is precisely the right product. For funds whose work is dominated by execution, a different category of vendor is appropriate.
How They Use Drusus
The shape of a typical working pattern for this audience.
Morning preparation
Drusus Daily is read on each desk at the local 9am. Coverage of the prior session is delivered with the analytical density of an in-house morning note.
Thesis testing
When the investment committee surfaces a thesis, use the AI analyst to stress-test it against the verified data context. The model is constrained to flag what it does not know rather than to invent.
Risk monitoring
Run end-of-session VaR and tail risk analyses across the book. Where concentrations have crept in, the system surfaces them; where correlations have shifted, you see it before the dispersion shows up in returns.
Cross-market arbitrage analysis
For dual-listed names, the platform surfaces FX-adjusted price relationships and flags departures from the typical range. The analytical foundation for any cross-market work is in place.
Quarterly review
Strategy Builder allows structural repositioning to be modelled before it is executed. Run the projection under multiple regime assumptions; commit when the trade-offs are visible.
An Illustrative Query
The form a typical interaction with the Drusus AI analyst takes for this audience.
Identify the dual-listed Chinese equities currently showing the largest deviation between their Hong Kong and New York listings, FX-adjusted, ranked by deviation. Exclude names with average daily volume below ten million USD on either listing.
Filtered to your liquidity threshold, the five largest deviations as of the most recent close are: [Name 1] at 3.2 per cent premium to Hong Kong listing on the New York ADR, [Name 2] at 2.7 per cent, [Name 3] at 2.4 per cent, [Name 4] at 2.1 per cent, [Name 5] at minus 1.8 per cent (Hong Kong premium). The historical range of these deviations is typically 0.5 to 1.5 per cent under normal conditions; the present figures are at the upper end. Three of the five deviations have moved in the past 48 hours; two are persistent over the past two weeks. The 24-hour movements may reflect short-term flow imbalance; the persistent two are worth examining for whether a corporate event, regulatory consideration, or settlement-related friction is responsible.
Recommended Tier
Drusus Institution at £299 per month per user is the tier built around this use case. It includes the highest-grade AI model (Anthropic Claude Sonnet) in the analyst chat, priority support, and the full analytical suite including Monte Carlo and VaR. Volume arrangements for funds with multiple users are available on request.