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Following my last blog on people complaining about hedge funds shorting Greek bonds, the Economist expressed exactly my sentiments (though better of course) in their leader pages. How can you sell if
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Selling the Greeks short
Last night I was watching Newsnight and Jeremy Paxman was interviewing a hedge fund manager who was shorting Greek government bonds and also the leader of the Danish socialist party. Naturally, the Da
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MSCI Barra buys Riskmetrics
It is not every day that the two largest providers of risk management systems and portfolio analysis to the Asset Management industry merge. Riskmetric’s revenue from risk sales is over $150 million a
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W-Shaped Recovery – part 2
I posted my thoughts on a weak, possibly W-shaped, recovery and its affect on asset managers only two weeks ago and it seems the news has suddenly gone all bad on the economy. The first tell-tale sign
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A W-Shaped Recovery?
Ignoring the headlines in the popular press, many people in the asset management industry are worried that we may well get a W-shaped recovery, where having briefly recovered from the near-death exper
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Bankers’ bonuses
Bankers were allowed to over-stretch their businesses, relying on too little capital to fund lending on a prodigious scale. As they competed with each other they took less and less consideration of th
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With SaaS, progress means giving more for less.
The model-T Ford gave the world a reliable car for $295 whereas its cheapest rival cost nearly $3,000; it was also better quality and more reliable than most of its competitors. That is because the ma
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StatPro changes Tariff
At StatPro we are always trying to find ways to offer our clients better value for money. We have, we believe, a first class range of products covering Performance Measurement, Equity Attribution, Fix
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Cheaper. Faster. Better.
“Strategic Backgrounder: Software as a Service” was published by the Software & Information Industry’s (SIIA) eBusiness Division in February 2001. The concept, models and technology have all had
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Why we need to create the role of the Super Employee
Credit crunch fatigue is probably setting in for many people, but I am sure that even they have some venom left for those individuals who presided over the whole debacle and yet walked away with milli
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Mark to Model or Mark to Myth?
Asset managers and Custodians have a real problem valuing illiquid assets in their portfolios even though many of these assets are perfectly sound and the asset manager has no intention of selling the
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Asset Managers need to reduce their costs – SaaS will help
Time changes everything. What was once state of the art becomes a cumbersome nuisance at some point. The explosion of activity that occurred in the 90’s when hundreds of small software companies built