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Questions and Challenges: Why and how investment management performance teams are looking for a way forward
The start of a new year is always an exciting time to look ahead at what can be and to reflect on what has been. Sometimes we are compelled to look beyond the year coming up and instead reflect on more than the year past.
The front, middle, and back office aren’t what they used to be
The start of a new year is always an exciting time to look ahead at what can be and to reflect on what has been. Sometimes we are compelled to look beyond the year coming up and instead reflect on more than the year past.
Three Critical Questions You Should Be Asking About the SEC’s Big Changes for Shareholder Reporting
If you work in the US funds space and don’t live under a rock, then you know that this summer the SEC proposed comprehensive changes to the way that fund companies communicate with their shareholders, with a focus on retail investors (the “proposal”).
Articles
How Asset Managers Can Thrive in an ESG-Focused World
For the past decade, the inclusion of Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) criteria has become a leading trend in the financial industry, deeply changing the stock picking and allocation process of asset managers.
Retooling the Investment Management Industry’s Performance Yardstick for New Realities
The overarching problem faced by many firms and their performance teams is a persistent lack of enterprise-wide visibility into asset performance and risk exposure.
For Data Management Advantages, Tear Down Those Walls!
It is becoming increasingly clear that thinking about data and operations through different lenses for front, middle, and back office is the old way of doing things.
Case Studies
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.
London-based wealth manager
Revolution empowers the performance team at a London-based wealth manager to build valuable, long-term relationships with 1000’s of clients through delivering more detailed reports.
National Australia Bank
Confluence’s cloud-based performance measurement and portfolio analytics solution, Confluence Revolution, facilitates National Australia Bank in reducing the turnaround time for delivering performance and risk analytics to stakeholders.
White Papers
Multi-Period Contribution Analysis
Download our latest whitepaper which demonstrates through worked examples how, why and where totals’ reconciliation differences can arise multi-period. Authored by Ian Thompson, PhD., Chief Performance Advisor, StatPro and Paul Giles, Owner, Teachins.
Market Liquidity Risk: A Scenario Based Approach
Dario Cintioli, Managing Director, explains the Confluence approach for measuring liquidity risk. The traditional problem of liquidity risk is that the data needed for calibrating these models is only available for liquid instruments, trading on a regular basis and for which books of bid/ask and volumes are available.
Fixed Income Methodology
Confluence uses a number of external sources for bond prices, foreign exchange and curves, including the trading desks of major investment dealers and banks. The Confluence dealer network represents the top professionals in their respective sectors.
Videos
Watch: The New Confluence
Mark Evans, Founder & CEO of Confluence, explains the new Confluence brand.
Asset Service Providers – Challenges and Opportunities
Andrew Peddar, StatPro Group COO, discusses the opportunities and challenges facing Asset Service Providers and their middle office outsourcing services.
GIPS Breakfast Briefing
On 11 May 2017, StatPro hosted a GIPS® Breakfast Briefing in London about the GIPS 20/20 update. Industry professionals discussed the upcoming update’s implications for organisations, and what concerns people in the industry have.