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Reuters to Offer Barra Risk Models to Australian Fund Managers
Reuters is adding Barra’s risk analytics to the information services it offers to fund managers in Australia. The move will allow portfolio managers to obviate the traditional delay in getting risk information on a portfolio. Instead, managers will be able to derive this information from their core market monitoring systems using the integrated Barra models.
FT Interactive Data Signs with Absreports.com for Evaluations Data
FT Interactive Data will make its asset- and mortgage-backed securities evaluations data available via Absreports.com, which provides contact, transaction and performance data for the European securitization industry. Under the arrangement, visitors to absreports.com can click on a link to access FT Interactive Data’s FTS desktop portfolio administration tool, which can be used to view more…
Sitting Up and Taking Notice
Finally, the world seems to be paying attention to what industry protagonists have been saying about the reference data marketplace for what now seems like quite some time: that reference data is important to your business, no matter what it is. Maybe it’s because the protagonists have become more sophisticated. We were encouraged to hear…
State of Wisconsin Investment Board Selects Eagle for Reference Data Normalization Platform
The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) has embarked on a major project to integrate and normalize the data used by its portfolio managers to run their investment models and to verify custodians’ reports on the performance of its external managers. SWIB is implementing Eagle Investment Systems’ Eagle Reference Manager platform at the heart of…
Raft International Names Millar to Head U.K. Operations
Raft International, a supplier of risk management software, has appointed David Millar as managing director of its U.K. operations. Millar was most recently an independent consultant, but earlier worked for Logica and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. At Raft International, Millar’s focus will be on operational and credit risk products.
… As Foster Joins as Vice President of Sales
At the same time, IDS announced Barrett Foster has been appointed as vice president of sales. Foster has spent time at Brown Brothers Harriman, NBD First Chicago, Credit Lyonnais and Thomson Financial’s Investext Group.
Integrated Decision Systems Taps Christiansen for Relationship Management …
Integrated Decision Systems has hired Stephen Christiansen as senior director, relationship management. Christiansen joins the U.S. provider of portfolio management systems following stints in client-facing roles at ADP, Reuters and Quotron Systems. Don Totter, who joined as CEO recently, also spent time at ADP.
Financial Data Management Event Offers Practical Insight
Osney Media’s Financial Data Management conference in London next month promises to yield some insight into issues surrounding management of information within the financial services marketplace. Osney Media believes the key data management question for financial institutions has shifted in the past 12 months from “Should a data management project be implemented?” to “How will…
Soliton Revamps Management in Bid to Leverage Data Platform
Reference data management platform provider Soliton has revamped its senior management team in a bid to exploit growing industry interest in consistent, timely and accurate reference data. Soliton’s TimeSquare offering is designed to automate the acquisition and management of reference data and allows institutions to create a single, sustainable security master database. The reorganization involves…
Invesco Marks First Global Deployment For XSP
Invesco’s implementation of XcitekSolutionsPlus’s corporate actions automation platform, announced last month, was strategically important for the vendor and may be a pointer of the future direction of its global ambitions. Invesco will use the XSP platform currently deployed by its U.S. parent, Amvescap, to service its European and Asian operations, marking the first time an…