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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…
MSCI Hires Peter Zangari as Head of Equity Portfolio Management Analytics Business
MSCI, a leading provider of investment decision support tools worldwide, announced today the appointment of Peter Zangari as Managing Director and Head of the firm’s Equity Portfolio Management Analytics business. In this role, Mr Zangari will be responsible for driving growth and product innovation across a broad range of equity portfolio management products, including Barra…
MSCI Launches New Barra Equity Models
MSCI, a leading provider of investment decision support tools worldwide, including indices, portfolio risk and performance analytics and corporate governance services, announced today the launch of the first in a family of new Barra Equity Models – Barra US Equity Model (USE4). Barra USE4 includes the latest advances in risk methodology, providing institutional investors with…
CMA Launches CDS Pricing that Factor in Quanto Risk
CMA, the leading provider for intraday CDS data and OTC market solutions, has announced the launch of a new product that takes into account the CDS ‘Quanto’ spread of key Euro-zone Sovereigns. Given European sovereign CDS are typically traded in USD and not the domestic currency (Euros), in order to accurately mark-to-market, holders of Sovereign…
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…
News – Machine Readable – is in the News
The low-latency delivery of machine readable news – to drive trading algorithms before the market moves – is a continuing story in itself. So here’s a quick roundup of recent headlines, including news from Selerity, Deutsche Borse, RavenPack and Thomson Reuters … * Selerity has installed an aggregation point of presence at Equinix’s Frankfurt data…
Virginie’s Blog – Things Keeping the Industry Awake at Night (About the LEI)
Standards are tricky beasts, they may be developed for one purpose and misused, and they are also often appropriated for purposes for which they were not initially intended. So choosing the right standard for something as important as legal entity identification (LEI) is obviously not a decision to be taken lightly and it is one…