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Asset Owners Change Approach to Risk Management
MSCI, a leading provider of investment decision support tools worldwide, published today the results of its 2011 Global Asset Owners Survey: Back to the Future of Risk Management. With 85 participants from 26 countries, representing roughly USD 5.5 trillion in assets under management, this is one of the most in-depth surveys to look at risk...
Cadis Nabs Collier to Support Sell-Side Growth
Cadis, the global EDM specialist has appointed George Collier as Director of Sales, Investment Banking and Capital Markets. Collier joins from Asset Control where he served as New Business Sales Executive for EMEA, focusing on large tier-one financial institutions. He previously held positions as VP of Sales for Siperian EMEA, now part of Informatica. He...
Ralf’s Role at Reuters
OK, that should be Thomson Reuters, but the historical name just fitted the headline better, and I’m a bit of a poet. I’m referring to Ralf Roth, who recently joined TR from Deutsche Bank, as we noted here. And we also said that we were intrigued by his ‘Elektron Transactions’ job title and would be...
A Few Risk and Data Infrastructure Related Highlights from Sibos
Apart from the announcement about the delay to Target2-Securities and (a bit) more clarity about Swift’s legal entity identification (LEI) project plans, this year Sibos yielded little in the way of hard post-trade focused news from the session floor. However, a fair bit of discussion was dedicated to the topic of the development of post-trade...
The Principal Group Announces Further Expansion
The Principal Group, incorporating investment specialists Principal Investment Management and Border Asset Management, are pleased to announce that Adrian Williams, a former director of James Brearley & Sons, has joined the Group. Adrian brings an extensive experience in stockbroking and investment management. For the last twenty years he has worked in north Lancashire and Cumbria,...
Andrew’s Blog – The Reawakening of Thomson Reuters
The past few weeks’ organisational regrouping in the wake of the departure of Thomson Reuters Markets CEO Devin Wenig over the summer has been supercharged by this week’s news of a complete restructuring of Thomson Reuters by CEO Tom Glocer. Glocer has named James C. Smith, currently chief executive officer of Thomson Reuters’ Professional division,...
Pricing Partners Derivatives Independent Valuation Platform is Empowered with Analytics Function
Pricing Partners, the world leader in OTC derivatives pricing analytics, mathematical models and independent valuations, announced today to implement a new function “Price-it Online Analytics” on its web based independent valuation platform Price-it Online. This new feature allows users of its online services to access its extensive financial library to achieve advanced transparency and independence....
Mirabaud Expands London Investment Management Team
The London division of Mirabaud Asset Management has hired Paul Boughton from Neptune Investment Management and Andrew Blair from Skandia Investment Group to strengthen its UK team. Both will take up the role of joint sales and marketing director for the group, and the appointments form part of Mirabaud’s initiative to build a strong UK...
S&P Fund Services Name Change
McGraw-Hill Financial, a segment of The McGraw-Hill Companies, today announced that it will market its unique combination of multi-asset-class data, benchmarks and analytics products under two master brands, S&P Capital IQ and S&P Indices. S&P Capital IQ will be the new master brand name for integrated desktop solutions, enterprise services and proprietary market, company and...
NYSE Technologies Looks to Open Source Data APIs; Wants Competitors To Partner
NYSE Technologies is planning to open source its messaging APIs, and hopes to attract other market participants – and competing data providers – to adopt them. The plan was outlined by Tony McManus, head of Enterprise Software at the exchange’s technology unit, speaking at a recent FutureDATA event in London. The APIs in question are...