Case Study: Swiss Top Asset Management firm achieves accelerated quant strategy development with AIM Software's GAIN Quant DB

Investment manager accelerates development of quant strategies with one data platform

Swiss Top Asset Management firm, the asset-management arm of a Top 10 Swiss bank, faced time-consuming, error‑prone and undocumented data preparation by its "quants" who manually aggregated index and market data from multiple sources to feed MATLAB. To industrialize and secure this process, the firm selected AIM Software and its GAIN Quant DB to automate aggregation from providers such as Thomson Reuters QA Direct, MSCI and Bloomberg.

AIM Software implemented GAIN Quant DB as a central, vendor‑agnostic research database that automatically collects, snapshots and cross‑references market data several times a day, eliminating manual consolidation and reducing look‑ahead bias. The result: more accurate, traceable time series, ten times less storage, research phases shortened by one to three months, and validated models launched in days rather than weeks — reducing operational risk and dependence on individual know‑how.