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MAGA Two.0
Although U.S. elections have always been highly significant for both global and national stock markets, the president’s influence on the economy and markets is typically indirect and limited.
Revolution Composites Insights Series: The trend on presenting composite level net returns in marketing materials
The SEC Marketing Rule, adopted in late significantly overhauled the marketing and advertising framework for SEC-registered investment advisers. This article focuses on a key aspect of the rule related to composite performance.
Confluence Omnia: Experience Next-Generation Regulatory Reporting
As the demand for regulatory transparency increases, a scalable and automated reporting solution is necessary to respond to rapid compliance change.
Reports
New in RegTech: As Gensler Departs, Here’s What a Second Trump Term Means for Investment Firms
It’s no secret that the November 5th election of Donald Trump as President for a second term — buttressed by a Republican majority in both chambers of Congress – should bring major changes, including for regulation in the U.S. financial sector. How will this happen, and what should investment firms expect?
Q3 2024 Plan Universe Allocation & Return Analysis
Despite a spike in market volatility, with inflation declining and interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve and other central banks, global equity markets posted another positive quarter, with the MSCI ACWI index returning over 6.72%.
October 2024 Factor Performance Analysis
In October, stock market volatility rose, even as stocks briefly hit new highs across the globe.
Case Studies
Automating the Monitoring of Market, Liquidity, and Sustainability Risk
A Luxembourg regulated Super ManCo automates the monitoring of market, liquidity and sustainability risk using Confluence Revolution.
Institutional Defined Benefit Plan Targeting
Confluence helped an Asset Management firm define a debt distribution strategy based on client types and sizes, moving to LDI with the Prism Analytics platform.
Top-five global financial institution
Major global financial institution integrates Confluence’s composites solution for regulatory reporting and uniform performance measurement standards to increase scalability, speed, usability and functionality.
White Papers
Navigating the SEC’s New Rule 13f-2 and Its Impact on Short-Selling Compliance
The SEC’s adoption of Rule 13f-2 marks a significant shift in the way institutional investment managers must report short-selling activities.
Updates to Form PF: Sections 1 and 2
The SEC’s latest changes to Form PF are here, and they’re shaking things up in a major way for US private fund advisors.
ESG Sustainability Stress Testing
The integration of climate risk (or more generally sustainability risk) stress testing into long-term business strategy and governance is key, as it will incorporate sustainability assessments into the risk appetite framework of institutions.
Videos
AI-Powered Confluence Rex: Product Explainer
Rex automates data reconciliation between TSRs and other financial documents, delivering efficiency, accuracy and, cost savings.
Why Aberdeen Standard relies on Peer Insights/Similyzer
Webinar Replay: Practical Strategies: Creating Compliant Performance Advertisements
This webinar is presented by Brendan Cooper & Benjamin Olmstead