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INDUSTRY_SUBSECTOR: Industry Subsector

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An industry subsector with risk profile, investment parameters, performance benchmarks, and SWOT analysis.

INDUSTRY_SUBSECTOR: Industry Subsector

An industry subsector with risk profile, investment parameters, performance benchmarks, and SWOT analysis.

Default definition. This article describes the default INDUSTRY_SUBSECTOR definition shipped with DemandFlow. Administrators can add, remove, rename, or re-type fields, change which ones are required, and alter the layout from the Definitions screen in Settings. Your tenant's current schema may differ from what is shown here. To read the current definition at any time, GET the DEFINITION object whose id matches INDUSTRY_SUBSECTOR.

Entity properties

PropertyValue
Entity codeINDUSTRY_SUBSECTOR
Display nameIndustry Subsector
PluralIndustry Subsectors
Level5100

Use cases

Investment reference entity for industry subsectors. Child of INDUSTRY_SECTOR via comboKey. Four panels: General (two columns - left has subsector info with code, parent sector comboLookup, market cap tier, maturity stage, plus risk profile with risk rating, volatility score, concentration risk, regulatory risk; right has investment parameters with target/min/max weights, rebalance frequency, liquidity requirement, plus performance benchmarks with benchmark index, target alpha, tracking error, Sharpe ratio target, max drawdown), Companies & Holdings (multigroup row type linking to COM entity for key companies with editable weight), and Analysis (SWOT textareas and research notes).

Fields

Subsector Information

FieldTypeRequiredNotes
nametextYesSubsector Name.
codetextUnique code for the subsector
parentSectorreference → INDUSTRY_SECTORThe main sector this subsector belongs to
descriptiontext (multi-line)Description.
marketCapenumValid ids: 1 (Mega Cap (>$200B)), 2 (Large Cap ($10B-$200B)), 3 (Mid Cap ($2B-$10B)), 4 (Small Cap ($300M-$2B)), 5 (Micro Cap (<$300M)), 6 (Mixed).
maturityStageenumValid ids: 1 (Emerging), 2 (Growth), 3 (Mature), 4 (Declining).

Risk Profile

FieldTypeRequiredNotes
riskRatingenumYesValid ids: 1 (Very Low), 2 (Low), 3 (Medium), 4 (High), 5 (Very High).
volatilityScorenumberVolatility Score (0-100).
concentrationRiskenumValid ids: 1 (Highly Diversified), 2 (Diversified), 3 (Moderate), 4 (Concentrated), 5 (Highly Concentrated).
regulatoryRiskenumValid ids: 1 (Minimal), 2 (Low), 3 (Moderate), 4 (High), 5 (Severe).

Investment Parameters

FieldTypeRequiredNotes
weightnumberTarget weight within parent sector
minWeightnumberMinimum weight within parent sector
maxWeightnumberMaximum weight within parent sector
rebalanceFrequencyenumValid ids: 1 (Daily), 2 (Weekly), 3 (Monthly), 4 (Quarterly), 5 (Annually).
liquidityRequirementenumValid ids: 1 (T+0 (Same Day)), 2 (T+1 (Next Day)), 3 (T+2 (Standard)), 4 (T+3), 5 (T+5+).

Performance Benchmarks

FieldTypeRequiredNotes
benchmarkIndextextBenchmark Index.
targetAlphanumberExpected outperformance vs benchmark
trackingErrornumberMaximum allowed deviation from benchmark
sharpeRatioTargetnumberTarget Sharpe Ratio.
maxDrawdownnumberMaximum acceptable peak-to-trough decline

SWOT Analysis

FieldTypeRequiredNotes
strengthstext (multi-line)Strengths.
weaknessestext (multi-line)Weaknesses.
opportunitiestext (multi-line)Opportunities.
threatstext (multi-line)Threats.

Additional panels

  • Activity timeline panel attached.

Relationships

  • Lookups: parentSector points at a INDUSTRY_SECTOR record.

Creating a Industry Subsector via the API

POST /v1/objects
Authorization: Bearer <your-pat>
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "entity":   "INDUSTRY_SUBSECTOR",
  "level":    5100,
  "comboKey": "SUB:<your-sub-id>|ENT:",
  "name": "Example",
  "riskRating": "1",
  "code": "...",
  "parentSector": "..."
}

Listing Industry Subsectors

# All records in your tenant
GET /v1/entities/INDUSTRY_SUBSECTOR/SUB:<your-sub-id>

See also

industry_subsectorindustrysubsectorsubsectorsindustrysubsector

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