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Putnam Investments expected to extend its use of Barra’s Totalrisk System firmwide by the end of the year, according to Erwin Martens, Putnam’s managing director and head of risk management. It was already rolled out to at least 200 desks and had an "almost cultural" effect on the firm, but there was still more data to be integrated.
Totalrisk, which Putnam helped tailor and adapt during its rollout, was designed to provide data and analytics to a wide spectrum of users from senior
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