Founded in 1995 by Mr. François Chauvet, the company is structured around two entities:

– APTimum Conseil, distributes and supports the APT solution;
– APTimum Formation Développement (AFD) provides value-added solutions and services on top of APT.

APT is a market risk solution part of FIS, a global leader in financial technology systems and services.

APT is an award-winning solution for managing investment risk and reporting across all asset classes and sophisticated investment strategies. It empowers you to make informed decisions with portfolio construction, smart analytics, research, market-risk
models and proprietary data.

APTimum is responsible for APT’s French-speaking clientele, but also clients in North America and Middle East.

Along with its rapidly growing adoption by trading and risk management departments of large U.S. and non-U.S. commercial and investment banks, large international money managers handling billions of dollars in investment portfolios have increasingly adopted the APT System. Today, more than 100 top-tier names in the financial industry worldwide use the System. Among leaders in banking, insurance, money management, and mutual funds distributors, APT has earned a well-established reputation for outstanding quality and reliability.

APT offers a unique way to model risk of any type of portfolios, including linear and non linear assets, public and private assets.
It is based on a rigorous implementation of Arbitrage Pricing Theory and uses a statistical approach to extract market risk factors.
This ensures a maximum explanatory power with no mis-specificatons resulting in robust risk estimates.

The APT System is an integral component of risk and institutional fund management. Now, all market participants worldwide can have access to a modern, flexible and effective portfolio management tool — one that allows managers to know their true risk, and control it while satisfying their specific constraints.