Diversification: Truly a free lunch
Whilst books and courses on portfolio theory tend to concentrate on equities, diversification is just as important in fixed income and multi-asset investing. Portfolio managers and risk controllers must understand and control the level of diversification (or concentration) of exposures to issuers as well as to sectors and regions.
What can asset managers learn from Netflix?
What can asset managers learn from the way Netflix transformed content distribution? How can we move on from producing and blindly distributing large volumes of static reports, to creating content tailored for a specific audience and distributing using intelligent online self-service platforms?
Balancing Marketing Brand Standards with Fund Administration ROI Expectations
Balancing Marketing Brand Standards with Fund Administration ROI Expectations
Global Risk Outlook: FANG stocks in volatility
The four FANG stocks have had a significant impact on the US equity market when looked at as a whole. Together, they account for nearly 8% of the S&P 500, and that number will rise if the market cap of these giants continues to increase. So what happens to market volatility when the hottest trade starts to unwind?
How Smart Can Your Fund Be?
In his latest blog, Tom Pfister, Global Vice President of Product Strategy, discusses the similarities between SmartCities and the work the asset management industry is doing to gain insights through
Asset Service Providers: Opportunities and Challenges
Andrew Peddar, StatPro Group COO, discusses the opportunities and challenges facing Asset Service Providers and their middle office outsourcing services.
StatPro Workflow Issue Seven: Q1 2018
Review some of most popular blogs and articles from the StatPro content library – issues affecting asset managers and service providers of all sizes.
Physics, Aircraft Carriers, and Liquidity Buckets
Physics, Aircraft Carriers, and Liquidity Buckets
Technology to tame performance data management
How can asset service providers leverage technology to manage huge volumes of data at scale, while providing the highest quality results? Let’s quickly explore three areas that influence data quality.
DataTech: Technology Innovation that Puts Data first
DataTech: Technology Innovation that Puts Data first
Asset Service Providers: How to achieve scale with flexibility
Producing high quality and accurate data and analytics in an ever shorter time frame is at the heart of the scalability challenge for asset service providers. Legacy performance and risk systems running on outdated software architecture simply can’t scale to meet today’s demands for the middle office.
Putting the Consistency in the Inconsistency: The Importance of a Global Regulatory Framework
Putting the Consistency in the Inconsistency: The Importance of a Global Regulatory Framework