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Breaking Out
While banks are focusing on cost cutting and downsizing, firms are looking at ways to rapidly improve data management strategies. Will outsourcing certain reference data activities be one of the options organizations will review? Tine Thoresen explores…
Coming to the Crunch
Current market conditions have put an increased focus on risk, and risk managers may have different needs than data managers. To reduce risk, there is a strong need to combine reference and market data and derived data. What capability do data management…
Southern, Data Management
Data management in southern Europe has yet to gain the focus and attention it requires to step up to the next level. But despite development still being at an early stage, there is a will to move ahead. Carla Mangado explores the approach to data…
James Caird selects SunGard Reconciliation
James Caird Asset Management (JCAM), a $3.5 billion independent investment management business launched in July 2008 with offices in New York and London, has selected SunGard Reconciliation (formerly intelliMatch) to help it automatically match and…
Charles River deploys IMS to South African prime broker
Johannesburg-based Sanlam Prime Services (SPS) has become the first ever prime broker to implement Charles River Development's investment mana-gement system (IMS) for the benefit of its hedge fund clients.SPS, a subsidiary of Sanlam Capital Markets, was…
Complex market conditions driving PM&A uptake
Faced with long-term market volatility, increasingly complex asset types and more exacting investor requirements, traditional asset managers and hedge funds are turning in greater numbers to performance measurement and attribution (PM&A) systems…
Interactive hedging
A low-inflation environment and an ageing population proved to be a fatal combination for pure-play bond and equity portfolios - the returns expected by corporate investors simply did not materialise. And so the days of target-based long portfolios have…
Dresdner Van Moer Courtens live on Thaler Wealth Management platform
Dresdner Van Moer Courtens is live on the Thaler Wealth Management platform from technology provider Callataÿ & Wouters to support the further development of its private wealth management operations in Belgium. Dresdner Van Moer Courtens is operating…
The hedge fund bubble
Now that the numbers have come in, it's safe to say that most of us have had better Septembers. By many accounts, worries among hedge fund managers that their investors would opt for redemptions in the face of uglier and uglier market conditions appear…
Hermes Fund Managers enters five-year risk partnership with Algorithmics
London-based Hermes Fund Managers , which manages the BT Pension Scheme, the UK's largest pension fund, has signed a five-year contract for Algorithmics' Algo Risk Service, an outsourced risk management and portfolio construction offering. This contract…