Apricot Financial Systems, based in Edgbaston, Birmingham has an enhanced version of Quasar, designed for institutional fund managers: the three new modules are fund accounting, performance measurement, and futures and options; the first maintains separate, self balancing ledgers and accounting records, the performance measurement module compares the rate of return on similar investments, and the futures module records details of options and trades; Quasar runs on several mini and microcomputers including DEC VAX, IBM 9370, Apricot VX9000, Nixdorf, Unisys, and HewlettPackard machines; prices depend on the hardware configuration, but is normally between UKP50,000 to UKP250,000.
