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Sun Life Global Investments Selects Broadridge Canada’s Smart Fund Facts Solution
Broadridge Financial Solutions, today announced that Sun Life Global Investments (Canada) has started an initiative to use Broadridge Canada’s Smart Document Creation solution for the automated creation of regulatory Point-of-Sale (POS) Fund Facts documents. The Smart Document Creation solution will create Fund Facts documents for mutual funds through an automated document creation process. In addition...
Monoline Exposures Resulted in $54 Billion in Charges for Banks, According to New ISDA Study
The counterparty credit risk exposure of 12 US bank holding companies and international banking companies to monoline insurers has led to some $54 billion in write-downs by the banks since 2007, according to a new analysis by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA). ISDA conducted the study as part of its examination into...
PIMCO Boosts Portfolio Management Analytics Team with Three New Hires
PIMCO, a leading global investment management firm, has expanded its portfolio management analytics team with the appointment of three new investment professionals in its New York and London offices. The new personnel are: Vasant Naik, Executive Vice President and Global Head of Empirical Research, based in the London office; Stefano Risa, Executive Vice President and...
PolarLake Announce Solution Suite for Financial and Reference Data
Today PolarLake announce the availability of the PolarLake Solution Suite. The PolarLake Solution Suite, which is the result of numerous successful client implementations and joint developments, offers four out of the box solutions built on top of the PolarLake Data Management Platform. The PolarLake Solution Suite includes: Ø PolarLake Price Processing Solution: Including an out...
FIA Replay: Event Driven Trading – Should You Consider It?
A few weeks ago, I was in Chicago for the FIA Expo, and the nice people at CFN Services asked me to moderate a panel on “Event Driven Trading – Should You Consider It?” Of course, I said yes. For those wondering, event driven trading means trading on news, as opposed to market prices that...
Interactive Data Nabs Doe for Trading Solutions
While it’s not exactly shouting about it, Interactive Data Corp.’s 3rd quarter financial results announcement noted that Emmanuel Doe has joined the company to run its Trading Solutions business. Until recently, Doe was a global business manager at Thomson Reuters, focusing on high frequency trading. At Interactive Data – which he joined at the end...
Fiserv Names Cheryl Nash President, Investment Services
Fiserv, a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today that Cheryl Nash has been named President of its Investment Services division. With 28 years of service with Investment Services at Fiserv, Nash brings a strong track record of industry leadership, technology expertise and commitment to serving clients to this role. She has...
M&G Upgrades GoldenSource EDM Platform
M&G Investments (M&G), one of Europe’s leading investment managers with £200 billion of assets under management, completed an upgrade to GoldenSource EDM version 8 in May 2011. Along with the upgrade, M&G extended GoldenSource’s enterprise data management (EDM) platform to utilize the derivatives capabilities, doubling instrument volumes and delivering trusted, consistent information to power key...
Bats Adds Binary
Bats Europe that is, which just added a binary protocol for order execution to the FIX protocol that it already supports. The new facility reduces latency that’s inherent in the more verbose FIX connectivity. A full suite of order types will be available using Binary Order Entry, so trading firms can opt for one or...
Form PF’s Final Rules Reduce Tension for Fund Managers
The final rules of Form PF announced last week by the SEC have opened up a whole new era for hedge fund and private equity businesses, which will now be forced to disclose more information to the US government than previously required. As such, each entity should plan how they will address the Form’s requirements...