The forgettably named ‘International Organisation of Securities Commissions’ or IOSCO has just released details of a new Template for gathering data on Hedge Funds from around the world with an aim to

Today is the day StatPro launches the “Private Beta” of its new product StatPro Revolution. The product is focused at the Front Office of asset managers, i.e. fund managers, salesmen, analysts, client

The entertaining political show where an audience gets to pose questions to a panel of politicians from different parties is normally amusing. Naturally enough these days most editions touch on the su

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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