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SimCorp introduces new front-office suite
Copenhagen-based specialist buy-side technology provider SimCorp has released a new front-office suite within SimCorp Dimension, its front-to back-office investment management platform. The suite features scalable front-office support for portfolio…
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…
Advent upgrades Geneva and APX applications
Advent Software has launched upgrades to its Geneva back-office platform and Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX), the San Francisco-based vendor's portfolio management product, as part of a year-long initiative to roll-out enhancements to its entire suite.
Netage survey results highlight importance of investor portals
Netage Solutions, a Watertown, MA-based provider of CRM software and online reporting systems to the alternative asset management industry, has published the results of a recent survey in which it claims that a large portion of alternative investment…
Advent unveils update to Axys
Advent Software has released Axys 3.8, an updated version of the San Francisco-based buy-side vendor's portfolio accounting and reporting platform. Axys 3.8 includes updates to support the 2010 Options Symbology Initiative (OSI), an industry-wide…
SunGard unveils VPM version 9.0
SunGard has released a new version of its VPM portfolio accounting platform for hedge funds. According to SunGard, VPM version 9.0 provides funds with an enterprise-level portfolio accounting application built on a service-oriented architecture for plug…
Evercore takes Advent's APX and Moxy applications
Evercore Pan-Asset Capital Management will imple ment Advent's Moxy OMS and the vendor's Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX), an integrated portfolio and client-relationship management platform. According to Advent, Evercore had previously relied on…
Interactive Data adds new features to PrimeTerminal offering
Interactive Data Corporation has added a range of portfolio analysis functions to its PrimeTerminal Professional financial desktop. The enhancements are designed to allow investment advisers and wealth managers to access and analyse their customer…
Charles River launches Charles River IMS Version 9.1
Charles River Development has released Version 9.1 of the Charles River Investment Management System (Charles River IMS). This release, which completes Charles River's transition to a service-oriented architecture (SOA), integrates order and execution…
ITG: closer alignment needed between trading strategy, cost analysis and investment decisions
A new white paper published by Investment Technology Group (ITG) finds that buy-side firms can expand capacity for assets by more carefully considering implementation costs resulting from their portfolio managers' investment decisions.
News, On a Need-to-Know Basis
Firms using machine-readable news as an input to trading strategies are highly secretive about gaining any advantage. However, major data providers are enthusiastically backing machine-readable news services. In the wake of Deutsche Börse's purchase of…
StatPro Group enhances CAP offering
StatPro Group, the Wimbledon, UK-based provider of portfolio analytics and data solutions for the global asset management industry, has made two enhancements to its system for pricing complex financial assets: T+0 pricing for credit default swaps has…