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EFAMA Promotes TER Report to Improve Transparency of Investment Fees
A report commissioned by the European Fund and Asset Management Association (“EFAMA”) published today aims to give investors greater transparency and understanding of cost breakdown within the Total Expense Ratio (“TER”) of European mutual funds. As part of its on-going campaign to promote investor education, EFAMA believes greater transparency is needed to reveal the breakdown…
Leading Canadian Bank Selects Broadridge Canada for Smart Document Creation Solution
Broadridge Financial Solutions, today announced that another Canadian financial institution has selected Broadridge Canada’s Smart Document Creation solution for the generation of Fund Facts documents required by the new Point-of-Sale (POS) regulations. The Smart Document Creation solution will generate regulatory Fund Facts documents for the bank’s mutual funds through an automated document creation process. Using…
Industry Funds Management Selects SunGard’s Investran and VPM
Industry Funds Management (IFM), a leading global investment manager has selected SunGard’s Investran and VPM solutions to help streamline and enhance back-office accounting across all of its investment products and portfolios. IFM manages over A$30 billion across four asset classes: infrastructure, private equity, debt investments and listed equity portfolios. SunGard’s Investran, an award winning application…
Markit Launches Commission Management Platform
Markit, a leading, global financial information services company, today announced the launch of Markit Commission Manager. The service helps buy-side firms manage and allocate commission credits efficiently while addressing the concerns associated with maintaining such credits with a single institution. Markit is introducing this new service as increasing numbers of buy-side firms demand virtual aggregation…
SEI Survey: Private Equity Managers Struggling to Keep Up with Increasing Investor Transparency Demands
While nearly everyone in the private equity space agrees that there has been an increased focus on portfolio transparency and client reporting over the past few years, investors remain dissatisfied with the information they receive from managers, according to a global survey report released today by SEI in collaboration with Greenwich Associates. Less than half…
Misys Focuses on Enterprise Risk, Collateral Management and Central Clearing Support, Says Dewnarain
Misys is focusing on a number of initiatives in several key areas including providing support for central clearing in the OTC markets, enterprise risk management (ERM) and cross asset collateral management, according to Denny Dewnarain, deputy European managing director of Treasury and Capital Markets for the vendor. Following its acquisition of Sophis earlier this year,…
S&P’s Jones Talks up its Bond Pricing and Valuation Offering, First in a New Line of Offerings
Following its recent (and long anticipated) official rebrand, S&P Capital IQ has released the first in a series of upgrades to its valuations biz in the form of a new bond pricing and valuation offering, which purports to provide an “independent and transparent view of multiple pricing and valuation approaches across a single issue.” Peter…
JonesTrading Names Garceau CTO
JonesTrading Institutional Services LLC, a leading brokerage firm, which provides institutions with global block trading across a range of instruments, announced today the appointment of Jack Garceau as Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Garceau joins the firm at a critical time in its growth. Over the course of the last year JonesTrading has expanded in both…
RBC Dexia Appoints Cormac Sheedy to Middle East & Africa Role
RBC Dexia Investor Services today announced that it has appointed Cormac Sheedy as Senior Executive Officer for Middle East & Africa to lead the company’s business development drive in the region. Reporting to Simon Shapland, Managing Director of UK, Ireland and Middle East, He will be based in RBC Dexia’s Dubai office and has over…
MIK Releases Enhanced SEC Master
MIK Fund Solutions, a leading provider of software solutions for hedge funds, today announced the release of a comprehensive and integrated security master solution for hedge funds and asset managers. The offering is designed as an integrated application for the tracking, reporting and processing of all security master terms and conditions and reporting attributes across…