Performance measurement and attribution

Middle-office move

A decade ago, the typical buy-side firm comprised three distinct areas: the front, the middle and the back offices, each responsible for managing its own well-defined functions. But that is no longer the case as buy-side firms look to move traditional…

Stralem live on Advent's APX platform

Stralem & Company, a New York-based investment manager with $2.2 billion under management, has implemented the performance analytics capabilities of Advent Software's Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX) platform to better compare its portfolios internally…

Performance precedents

Performance measurement, has in recent years moved into the front office, as buy-side firms look to integrate performance into a single, integrated platform. This move has been accompanied by compressed reporting timeframes and the emergence of risk as…

Get it Right the First Time Around

Firms with effective data management practices will be better suited to adhere to coming Gips requirements, say Eagle Investment Systems' Joseph McDonagh and Danielle Newland

Born to perform

Since its inception just under nine years ago, BI-SAM has been quietly going about its business focusing on performance and attribution, risk, and reporting functions for buy-side firms. It is therefore no surprise that the Paris-based vendor has added…

Report: Applications Key to Cutting Latency

Investment banks seeking to reduce latency should focus on optimizing their application software stack rather than their networks, according to new research recently published by Paris-based networking consultancy Net2S.

Seeing things

Performance and attribution reports are fast becoming one of the key differentiators between buy-side firms in an increasingly crowded marketplace. But some practitioners argue that these reports have become too complex. Statpro's Andrew Colin believes…

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