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Pricing Partners Adds a Stochastic Rating Model to its Financial Library
Pricing Partners announced today that it added a stochastic rating model to its Price-it derivatives pricing library that enables to price ratings linked products. Euro Medium Term Notes based on Rating have become more popular as ratings play a central role in the financial world and are easily understandable for investors. A typical structure is…
A Blueprint for a European Consolidated Tape – Data Consolidation is a Top Priority for EFAMA under MiFID II
The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) published today a Blueprint for a European Consolidated Tape intended to permit greater certainty amongst investors as to prices, best execution, valuation and performance measurement, leading to further reductions in direct and indirect costs of trading for investors. The liberalisation of trading venue regulation under MiFID has…
Opinion: The Correct Exposure for a Crisis
By Michel Lempicki, corporate development director at StatPro Group “Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.” So said Colin Powell, Vietnam veteran, when he was chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Gulf War. In today’s investment climate, as in military circles, that maxim still holds true. It has become…
700 Jobs to be Created in Fund Services by End of Q1 2012
Ireland’s fund services industry grew 36% in the last year and now manages assets worth €1.9 trillion. This growth makes Ireland the largest hedge fund administration centre in the world, with 63% of European and 43% of global alternative investment assets now administered in Ireland. The growth in Ireland’s funds market has had a big…
RBC’s Sutton to Join Ex-Citi Colleague Berlanger at Deutsche Bank
After two years as Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Capital Markets’ global head of customer accounts, Julia Sutton is set to head to Deutsche Bank in October as its new head of client reference data. Sutton, who will be speaking at A-Team’s Data Management for Risk, Analytics and Valuations conference in London on 17 October,…
IMA Highlights Danger of Systemic Risk Data Overload in AIFMD Response
In its response to the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) consultation on the Alternative Investment Fund Management Directive (AIFMD), the UK’s Investment Management Association (IMA) highlights the danger of overloading regulators with too much data for the purposes of systemic risk monitoring. IMA director Julie Patterson indicates that under the directive as it currently…
Broadridge and InGovern Announce Alliance for Sales and Distribution of Proxy Research and Vote Recommendations for Listed Companies in India
Broadridge Financial Solutions, and InGovern Research Services today jointly announced an alliance for the sale and distribution of InGovern’s proxy research and vote recommendations for listed Indian companies through Broadridge’s ProxyEdge voting platform. This will immediately allow institutional investors, who are current users of the ProxyEdge platform, access to insights on governance of listed companies…
Increased Sophistication of Triggering Strategies Being Applied for Fair Value Within Mutual Funds
Interactive Data’s recent survey indicates that its mutual fund clients are using increasingly sophisticated triggering strategies to determine whether to apply fair value methodologies to their global equities. Reference Data Review speaks to Rob Haddad, director of Evaluated Services at the data vendor, about the trend towards multiple benchmarks and trigger levels and the increased use of…
Societe Generale Securities Services appoints Jochen Meyers as Managing Director for Sales & Relationship Management, Germany and Austria
Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has appointed Jochen Meyers as Managing Director for Sales & Relationship Management in Germany and Austria. He will report to Mathieu Maurier, Global Head of Sales and Relationship Management. Jochen Meyers has over 16 years experience in the German securities services industry. He will be responsible for pursuing SGSS’ outstanding…
Virginie’s Blog – Are Valuations Vendors Making the Grade?
Back in July, I touched upon some of the findings of our valuations benchmarking efforts in the North American markets, noting that many buy side firms in these markets want vendor performance to improve to meet their current and future needs. Well, the full report is finally available to download (see here) and it seems…