Octopus - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

Octopus has won the Editor‘s Pick at Fundmanagertools by Opalesque:

https://www.fundmanager.tools/portfoliomanagementsoftware

Crypto version video: http://www.octo21.com/crypto

This user friendly, fully web based system covers the whole workflow for front-, middle- & back office.

Order management with interfaces for Bloomberg, major Brokers (including Interactive Brokers, Swissquote, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and many more), FIX & REST API's (crypto exchanges). Fast speed trade capture with excel copy&paste, pre-trade compliance, order routing.

Risk & compliance with UCITS/AIFMD and individual rule sets.

Fund management / fund accounting supports complex fund & fee structures.

Automated reporting (Factsheet, KIID, Portfolio and Risk/ICO), DMS. For email reporting or automated website update.

Integration of third-party data and service providers with no extra fee.

In detail:

Portfolio management covers complex portfolio structures with individual access rights and full instrument type coverage with compliance enhancements.

It has a detailed, extensible, self-updating instrument and pricing database with multiple data sources and fields for additional calculations.

A complete historical position and transaction database, so the portfolio can be viewed and calculated retrospectively for any given historical day including extensible performance and valuation fields for each position.

Cross-portfolio positions and transactions search, filtering and export functions, database API for direct Excel connection and extensive setup database.

Order management includes a sophisticated trade blotter tool for fast and easy execution for large amounts of trades.

It provides an Excel import for individual Excel sheets and adjustable copy & paste functionality as well as extensive, easy to adjust interfaces for brokers, custodians, and other counterparties.

Interfaces for all major price feed providers are implemented.

The entire instrument universe is covered accompanied by pre-trade compliance.

The order book provides search, filter and export functionality for new, pending and executed trades and individual portfolio views with direct trade blotter generation.

The portfolio simulation tool has a rebalancing function and direct trade blotter generation.

Also included is a fee management tool to automate or simplify post-processing of transactions.

Reconciliation with:

A sophisticated interface setup tool to cover any type of file-based data import like FTP, Email and API data transfer with encryption support.

You can setup unlimited reconciliation tasks between your data and any third-party partners.

It supports automated reconciliation groups, flexible scheduler and an instrument name mapping database.

The Fund valuation module provides accounting / shadow accounting for complex fund structures e.g. master-feeder and hedging option, ex-post compliance checks with a flexible and sophisticated rule catalogue with per fund setup.

You can setup multiple currency share class structures and shares with the capability of currency hedging as well as complex fee structures for automated fee calculation on fund or share class level and a configurable performance fee calculation with high watermark and hurdle rate support.

It provides a complete exportable NAV, compliance and subscription/redemption history, extensible calculations for performance, VaR and other key figures and automated data sources for portfolio value, subscription/redemptions, liabilities and hedges.

Reporting includes a sophisticated reporting engine based on the open source software Jasper Reports,

easy to adjust reporting templates for KIID, Factsheet, NAV, Portfolio and annual reports and extensive and highly customizable reports, adjustable to any corporate identity.

The report generation and email distribution can be done with batch processing and scheduler control.