If the financial crisis of a decade ago taught us anything, it’s that the liquidity of traded financial instruments is unpredictable and can fluctuate wildly in a matter of seconds. During the crisis, the eventual loss of liquidity, combined with the highly interconnected nature of modern directi…

It has been over 50 years since Peter Dietz published his seminal work ‘Pension Funds: Measuring Investment Performance’ – when performance measurement became both standardized and quantifiable and a new industry was born. Over the following years, performance measurement evolved from simple calc…

It’s common for asset managers to communicate their expected return forecasts to clients, but less so their expected risk forecasts. We believe a key reason for this is that the language of risk and return are different. Return is well-defined by PnL, whereas risk needs to be viewed as an analyti…

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 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

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?

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

Andrew Peddar, StatPro Group COO, discusses the opportunities and challenges facing Asset Service Providers and their middle office outsourcing services.

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

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.