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 Legacy performance and risk systems running on outdated software architecture simply can’t scale to meet today’s demands for the middle office.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
What does the VIX really tell us?
A lot has been made of the recent spike in the VIX, which in February jumped from single-digit levels to nearly 50% following a prolonged period of low volatility. Now that “market volatility is back,” we thought it would be a good time to examine what exactly the VIX measures and how to interpret it.
Moving Beyond ’Warehousing‘: The Need for Advanced DataTech
Moving Beyond ’Warehousing‘: The Need for Advanced DataTech
Why look-through transparency is no longer a nice to have requirement
Look-through transparency provides analysis of underlying exposures for both performance and risk, so the capability to provide this functionality for both performance measurement and risk measurement, based on a single source of data, would clearly be a benefit to many asset managers.
Come to your Census – Why Form N-CEN is a Key to Fund Administration Data Strategy
Form N-CEN data can be elusive and challenging to find. But once an organization has gone through the effort to answer Form N-CEN questions, the data has value beyond the form.
The rise of self-service performance and risk analytics
Why accurate data appropriate to multiple stakeholders is a more efficient output for the middle office.
New School Risk Management
Good asset managers can speak in depth about the return expectations of their portfolio in the scope of the current macro-environment. However, fewer manager…
Global Risk Outlook: Volatility is back
The week of February 5th 2018 definitively answered the question of when volatility would return to global markets. Most market observers had the intuition…
Middle office stakeholders: Know your clients
How the middle office needs to expands its services to deliver for an ever increasing range of internal and external clients.
Delays Aren’t What They Used to Be
Pretty much from the day the SEC finalized its reporting modernization rules, the industry has lobbied for something to ease the burden of readiness and processing – a delay, an extended monthly due d
Beyond Compliance: Outlook for 2018
Beyond Compliance: Outlook for 2018