Carne Platform Aids Traditional and Hedge Fund Managers Navigate Complex Valuation Best Practices
Fund management advisory firm Carne Global Financial Services has launched its Hedge & Traditional Fund Valuation ‘Best Practice’ Product, which is aimed at assisting hedge fund, private wealth and traditional asset managers in following valuation best practice across all asset classes and products. Carne Global claims that these best practices will help fund managers to...
Carne Launches Hedge and Traditional Fund Valuation Best Practices Product
Fund management advisory firm Carne Global Financial Services has launched its Hedge & Traditional Fund Valuation ‘Best Practice’ Product, which is aimed at assisting hedge fund, private wealth and traditional asset managers in following valuation best practice across all asset classes and products. Carne Global claims that these best practices will help fund managers to...
Pictet & Cie Picks Interactive Data for Bond Evaluations
Swiss private bank and asset manager Pictet & Cie has selected Interactive Data’s pricing and reference data business to provide bond evaluations. Prior to the migration of Pictet’s core banking system, Interactive Data provided its bond evaluations service via a third party. Pictet now uses the Avaloq Banking System in conjunction with Gain Data Management...
AP Møller-Mærsk Picks SuperDerivatives for Energy Option Valuations
Global shipping and energy company AP Møller-Mærsk has selected SuperDerivatives to provide independent valuations for its energy options and swaps. Amitai Razon, sales executive for the Nordic region for SuperDerivatives, indicates that the vendor first met Møller-Mærsk in August last year, after which the firm began testing the vendor’s service in February this year. The...
Telekurs Financial Partners with Bondweb Malaysia for Fair Value Pricing
Telekurs Financial has signed an agreement with Bondweb Malaysia, the country’s only current bond pricing agency, to integrate Bondweb’s fair value prices into Telekurs’ Valordata Feed (VDF) and Intraday Pricing Service (IPS). Bondweb Malaysia has been offering fair values for approximately 2,000 fixed income bonds traded in ringgit since 2005.The deal with the Malaysian agency...
Fitch Solutions Launches Risk and Performance Platform
Fitch Solutions has launched Fitch Risk and Performance Platform, a new platform providing market-based credit risk analytics, credit default swap (CDS) pricing and fundamental ratings content. It is an extension of Fitch’s market implied ratings platform and incorporates new tools for quickly reviewing credit entity performance within a user’s portfolio. According to the vendor, which...
SimCorp Adds Complex Instruments Module to Dimension
Asset management system supplier SimCorp has incorporated a new module, XpressInstruments, which focuses on the processing of structured products and exotic instruments, into its investment management system, SimCorp Dimension. According to the vendor, this new addition allows these complex instruments to be valued using multiple market tested pricing and valuation models already contained within SimCorp...
Consistency in Valuations is Vital for Dealing with Derivatives, Says Lepus and Asset Control
Accurate documentation surrounding valuations is growing in importance in the area of complex derivatives, according to a recent panel discussion held by Lepus Consulting and sponsored by Asset Control. The panel, which included representatives from a number of Wall Street banks and US mutual funds such as TIAA-CREF, agreed that knowing the ultimate parent for...
Interactive Data Makes Pricing Data Available Through ValueLink’s PriceValidation, Adds Valuations for ETNs
Interactive Data Corporation had a busy Sifma with regards to its pricing and valuations business lines, as well as signing a deal with ValueLink to make data from its Pricing and Reference Data business available through ValueLink’s PriceValidation service, the vendor also announced that it will now deliver indicative intraday valuations for exchange traded notes...
S&P and SuperDerivatives Partner to Create Largest Valuations Portal
Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations, a global provider of independent securities evaluations and derivatives specialist SuperDerivatives have established a sales and marketing alliance to target the fixed income securities and OTC and exchange-traded derivatives market. The resulting combined offering represents the largest independent valuation portal in terms of both geographic and asset class coverage. The...