Case Study: MFS Investment Management achieves higher performance, reduced risk, and greater scalability with InterSystems

Switch to cache from a relational database improves performance, reduces risk for MFS Investment management

MFS Investment Management, a Boston‑based asset manager overseeing more than $410 billion, relied on its Global Portfolio Modeler (GPM) to generate models, assess risk, run compliance, and create program trades. The original GPM, built on a relational database, could not keep pace with the firm’s growth, faster trading, and increasing portfolio and regulatory complexity, creating performance, scalability, and risk concerns.

MFS migrated GPM’s compliance engine to InterSystems Caché after a successful .NET proof‑of‑concept, gaining in‑memory speed with persistent reliability. The switch delivered markedly improved performance, faster time‑to‑market, higher availability (a perfect record), reduced investment and operational risk, and lower support overhead while enabling scalable, object‑oriented development.

MFS Investment Management

Manuel Delgado

Assistant Vice President of Investment Systems Software Development, MFS Investment Management