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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.
Making the Right Adjustments: Managing Liquidity Risk for SEC Rule 22e-4 Compliance
Rule 22e-4 is specifically aimed at quantifying liquidity risk in most mutual fund and ETF portfolios – particularly, the risk of a fund being unable to meet redemption requests without significant impact on its remaining investors. The regulation comes with a host of challenges leaving fund managers looking for an efficient, scalable solution.
Seeking Balance: Managing Insurance Portfolios Under Solvency II
In the post-Solvency II world, asset managers with insurance clients are grappling with additional layers of complexity. In addition to incorporating the cost of capital into the asset allocation process, they are also required to fulfill an extensive set of reporting obligations, leading them to partner with external vendors to implement a cost-effective and efficient workflow.
Efficiency in the Aggregate: Why Private Wealth Managers Should Adopt Composites
While building composites is common among institutional asset managers, private wealth managers have not adopted them to the same degree – but a shift is already underway, and this will continue to change as wealth managers face renewed scrutiny.
Aite Matrix: Fixed Income Attribution and Analytics
This excerpt from an Aite Impact Report details the Aite Group vendor assessment framework, the market and it’s players, and why Confluence was selected as Best-in-Class for Fixed Income Attribution and Analytics.
More Than Compliance: Setting the Scene for the Next Phase of RegTech
As the RegTech space continues to mature, focus is shifting from the what to the how – that is, from simply being compliant to identifying how asset managers and service providers can leverage technology to refine existing compliance and reporting procedures and execute them with efficiency, precision and cost-effectiveness.
Adapting Smoothly to SEC Rule 18f-4
To modernize the regulatory framework covering derivatives, and to address how both derivatives themselves and the risks they pose to investors have changed, the SEC has fundamentally changed the rules.
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.
What can asset managers learn from Netflix?
From technology decisions, to building the ultimate self-service platform for television content, what can asset managers learn from Netflix when looking at digitization and information distribution?