Markit Group has appointed James Savitsky and Thomas Geraghty as directors within its global asset backed securities (ABS) sales and product development teams. Savitsky, who joins from Trepp, will coordinate Markit’s ABS sales effort globally, distributing the firm’s data and analytics services for the structured finance markets. Geraghty, formerly man-aging director at Wall Street Analytics, joins Markit’s North American structured finance product development team.
Data and operations professionals at private market institutions face significant data and analytical challenges managing private assets data. With investors clamouring for advice and analysis of private markets in their search for returns, investment managers are looking at ways to gain a more meaningful view of risk and performance across all asset types held by...
The critical importance of data to the private equity and alternatives markets sector is starkly underlined by an observation from Anush Newman, chief executive and co-founder of JMAN Group. “In the past 18 months, I know of at least 20 acquisition deals that have fallen through because the target companies didn’t have enough data to...
Now in its 15th year the Data Management Summit NYC brings together the North American data management community to explore how data strategy is evolving to drive business outcomes and speed to market in changing times.
Risk and regulatory imperatives are demanding access to the latest portfolio information, placing new pressures on the pricing and valuation function. And the front office increasingly wants up-to-date valuations of hard-to-price securities. These developments are driving a push toward on-demand evaluated pricing capabilities, with pricing teams seeking to provide access to valuations at higher frequency...