Pricing & Valuation

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One of the key focus areas for the new year is liquidity risk and valuation risk. But to deal with the upcoming challenges, firms are looking for more granular and better integrated data. Tine Thoresen speaks to AIG's Suresh Jayaraman about what data…

Valuation vendor market to expand through 2012

A new Aite Group report anticipates that the pricing and valuation services industry will grow to $2.9 billion by the end of 2012, reflecting pressure from regulators and investors on buy-side managers and their custodians to improve these functions…

StatPro joins the pricing/valuations fray

London-based StatPro Group has entered the buy-side pricing and valuations space by unveiling its Complex Asset Pricing (CAP) service, a system for pricing complex financial assets. Through this move, StatPro has joined a select handful of service…

High Expectations

While the market has seen rapidly growing demand for independent valuations in the past year, third-party vendors have focused on expanding offerings and helping clients meet new requirements. The vendors providing these services have become vital for…

Targeting Transparency

The credit crunch has led to a rapidly growing awareness of independent valuations. But market conditions have not been the only driver. New accounting standards are putting pressure on firms to take control of the process. Tine Thoresen explores why the…

Fund of funds market shows healthy growth

Research note illustrates the extent to which the global fund of hedge funds industry is expected to flourish, even though this growth will be concentrated within a handful of the largest fund managers and administrators. By Victor Anderson

Smoke and mirrors

It's time to revisit the perennial challenge of hedge fund valuation practices. Investors may now be asking more pertinent and accurate questions by way of due diligence studies regarding how managers price their portfolio holdings, although many funds…

Shadow Complex

Demand for independent pricing shadows the rise of complex structured finance transactions as regulatory scrutiny increases. By JR Rieger, vice president of Global Evaluations, Standard & Poor's

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