Risk Management, Performance & Reporting
EvaluatingValuation Risk
Customer demand for evaluated prices is increasing, and with the current turbulent market conditions, the trend is set to continue. The problem now is to ensure independent valuations do not result in increased risk. Carla Mangado reports on how firms…
Off-the-Shelf Life
Asset managers are increasingly looking outside their own walls to automate corporate actions processing. But the selection is extensive and some firms choose not to review a large number of platforms. Tine Thoresen explores the different types of off…
Looking to Diversify
Asia and Emerging Markets
Data Center 3.0
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Power and Cooling
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Leveraging Utility Computing
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Fund accounting system spend to hit $500 million by 2012
The market for hedge fund portfolio accounting systems will grow from $394.4 million this year to a shade under $500 million in 2012 as managers seek to meet evolving regulatory requirements and develop more automated processes to handle derivatives and…
Perfecting the lean and mean approach
Quintillion, a fifteen-month old fund administrator, had some tough technology decisions to make in order to keep the organisation as lean and mean as possible, while simultaneously providing its clients with the types of services typically enjoyed by…
Coastal move
Roger Hartley made the move from Putnam Lovell to Coast Asset Management some three months ago, landing the fund's chief operating officer role. He talks to Victor Anderson about his reasons for his sell-side- to buy-side move, the benefits of working…
A sense of Unity
Confluence is something of a veteran in the fund administration industry, having been founded in theearly 1990s. But it was the 2007 launch of Unity – the fi rm’s unifi ed data management platform for thefund administration industry – that has provided…
OTC derivatives still main challenge
According to recent research carried out by UK-based buy-side consultancy Morse, OTC derivatives and structured products are expected to present the most acute challenges facing UK-based buy-side firms over the next six months. The fortnight-long survey …
Credit Suisse Centralizes Index Licensing Function
Credit Suisse has centralized its index data licensing and administration function under one person, separate from its market data business, to reduce the overall cost of the bank's index usage by eliminating duplication by different business lines and…
FTSE Preps US Operations, Ticker Plant
Index provider FTSE is to set up regional support and operations functions in North America and Asia, to enable the vendor to source and process data locally, and to respond faster to customer inquiries.
SEC Moves Forward in Mutual Recognition
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is another step closer to mutual recognition of "high-quality" regulatory agencies outside of the U.S., say SEC officials.
The New Real-Time
The front office wants more reference data, and it wants it now. The question is, can the vendors live up to these new expectations on timeliness? Tine Thoresen reports on how the pace is changing in the reference data market
No Monopoly on Accuracy
Using a multi-vendor approach can help alleviate many of the risk factors inherent in corporate actions, says Fidelity ActionsXchange's Christopher Madigan
Paladyne goes agnostic with SunGard back-office offering
Hedge fund technology provider Paladyne Systems has begun offering SunGard's Visual Portfolio Manager (VPM) portfolio accounting product as an optional component of its browser-based front-to-back platform.