It’s been emotional
The immortal and ironic words of Vinny Jones in the title make us laugh as he renders his lines impassively in “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels”. We are supposed to think that his character is so cool he has no emotions: nothing rattles him.
Transaction vs. Holdings-Based Performance Calculations
Whilst performance attribution plays a critical role in the analysis of any portfolio, calculating performance plays an equally important role.
Evolve or die: Entering the next era of compliance
Research has found that far too many companies still conduct compliance monitoring manually, which naturally increases the risk of errors and reduces efficiencies.
Closing the Loop: Why End-To-End Processes Matter More Than Ever
Gary Casagrande explains why using a single platform to focus on saving time, money, and preventing risk is a huge key to success within the financial services industry.
The fuss about factors
The idea that the risk and return characteristics of global assets can be neatly decomposed into common driving factors is highly appealing to today’s demanding investors.
Fixed Income Attribution – Where risk and performance really come together
For many years, investment management professionals have discussed risk and performance as being ‘two sides of the same coin’ and the convergence of the two functions within asset managers. Risk is managed in order to achieve performance. Indeed, in many firms, risk and performance professionals…
Solving today’s fixed income attribution challenges
Calculating accurate performance attribution in the fixed income markets is a crucial element to success. Not only is fixed income attribution vital to inform, support and defend investment decisions, but sales and marketing personnel use the data for client acquisition and retention activities.
Key takeaways: How firms can fight fee compression and passive investment
This post highlights some key takeaways from an interview with Damian Handzy, Global Head of Risk at StatPro at the 2018 FTF Performance Measurement Europe Conference in London.
More Challenges Predicted for 2019 and The Back Office Is Ready!
We’ve taken a look back at 2018 in the back office to predict what’s in store for these teams and their operations as we continue forward in 2019.
Abnormal Returns: Returns for Short Positions and Portfolios
This post is an excerpt from an article in the most recent volume of the Journal of Performance Measurement written by Carl Bacon, CIPM, StatPro Chief Advisor, Ian Thompson, Ph.D., Global Head of Portfolio Analytics at StatPro, and Pierre van der Westhuizen, Head of Performance at StatPro.
StatPro maintains momentum
StatPro Group plc has capped off 2018 with: a new strategic partnership with Broadridge, the global Fintech leader; the acquisition of ODDO BHF, the regulatory risk services bureau; three new senior executive hires; and multiple industry accolades recognising our flagship platform, Revolution, as…
StatPro pushes forward with Investor Analytics, UBS Delta integrations
With two major acquisitions made in 2016 and 2017 respectively, integrating these platforms into our flagship platform, Revolution, is progressing nicely with several big rollouts coming in 2019.
In a recent interview with WatersTechnology, our Global Head of Risk, Damian Handzy discusses how we are moving forward with the Investor Analytics and UBS Delta integrations.