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Dimensional Fund Advisors, a Texas based global asset manager with USD497 billion in assets under management, is extending its use of SimCorp Coric to enhance client reporting capabilities.
This follows the firm having gone into successful production with SimCorp Coric for key marketing materials, including product brochures and fund factsheets.
Dimensional has been using SimCorp Coric since deciding to initiate an effort to enhance its client communications and reporting capabilities in 2014. The firm wanted an operating model, which would provide the long-term scalability needed to support its global reporting requirements. The implementation of SimCorp Coric has meant that
- 10/05/2017
12th Street Asset Management has selected Archer, a technology and services provider for the investment management industry, to support the firm's growth across all channels, including separately managed accounts, a limited partnership and model delivery clients.
Archer will provide technology and services in support of 12th Street's investment products with features and services that will allow the firm to effectively scale operations to accommodate future growth.
12th Street Asset Management is an employee-owned, Nashville-based asset management firm, managing roughly USD1 billion dollars. In selecting Archer's web-based technology to support its business with a single investment book of record, 12th
- 10/05/2017
LiquidityBook has appointed Les Vital as head of technical sales.
The appointment comes as demand accelerates for its POEMS (portfolio, order and execution management system) platform.
Vital (pictured), who brings over 15 years of capital markets experience, will work hand-in-hand with LiquidityBook’s sales, onboarding, product management and development teams. He will report directly to Sean Sullivan, chief revenue officer.
Vital joins from Broadridge Financial, where he spent six years as a project manager in its investment management solutions business, working in both New York and London on complex client implementation projects. Prior to that he served in Eze
- 09/05/2017
GreenKey Technologies, creator of an artificial intelligence (AI) and voice-driven collaboration tool for financial market participants, has secured a patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office for its system for human speech-to-text and subsequent interpretation of spoken financial trades in a fast and accurate manner.
The speech engine, "GreenKey Scribe," is trained on terabytes of financial conversations and allows for human error correction to achieve industry-leading transcription accuracy.
Scribe uses proprietary decoding techniques to transcribe audio up to 10 times faster than other engines and includes natural language processing libraries called Product Class Interpreters to automatically extract relevant
- 09/05/2017
- 09/05/2017
The performance of hedge funds, as measured by the Lyxor Hedge Fund index, was flat last week, according to the latest weekly brief from Lyxor cross asset research team.
It was essentially hampered by the negative performance of global macro managers, who had maintained short positions on the EUR vs USD and long positions on commodities (energy and metals).
As a result of adverse market movements compared to their positioning, the Lyxor Global Macro index was down 0.5 per cent last week. The remaining hedge fund strategies were in positive territory, led by CTAs (+0.7 per cent).
Lyxor
- 09/05/2017
- 09/05/2017
The European Commodity Clearing (ECC) is cooperating with KB TECH to expand access to cleared commodity markets for trading participants.
KB TECH is a UK based software development company providing data management services and products to the trading, pension and financial markets.
KB TECH has launched a dedicated portal “KB Portal” which allows the entry and submission of brokered trades for trade registration on the European Energy Exchange (EEX) and subsequent clearing with ECC. KB Portal is available for the power, emissions and freight markets, as offered by EEX.
In the framework of their Straight-Through-Processing (STP) solution, ECC
- 09/05/2017
Rival Systems, a provider of trading and risk management software, has integrated into its trading platform QuantHouse’s end-to-end ultra-low latency market data feed.
The integration of QuantFEED into the Rival Trader and Rival API platforms further strengthens Rival’s multi-asset class offering.
The move enables mutual clients of Rival and QuantHouse to seamlessly pull QuantFEED data into Rival’s front-end trading and algorithmic strategy development software, with the flexibility to configure the market data to meet their varying latency and cost requirements.
The feed, including hardware, software and telecommunications components, integrates directly into the full functionality of Rival Trader and
- 09/05/2017
Hedge funds posted their fourth consecutive month of gains this year, up 0.54 per cent during the month of April, while underlying markets as represented by the MSCI AC World Index (Local) were up 1.17 per cent over the same period.
That’s according to EurekaHedge’s latest Index Flash Update which says that the Macron vs Le Pen run-up to the French presidential election provided some relief for the markets especially for European equities as expectations for a Macron victory in the second round seemed likely.
In the Eurozone and elsewhere in the world, economic data for Q1 2017 was
- 09/05/2017
Advanced Logic Analytics (ALA), a provider of enterprise wide big data and analytics solutions for buy- and sell-side institutions and other financial firms, is introducing advanced finance analytics to help financial markets firms reduce downside investment risk and achieve upside potential.
These new analytical tools, part of the ALA OneLogic suite of big data and analytics solutions, offer quant-based augmentative strategies for portfolio composition using the proven academic concept of “second order stochastic dominance”.
The underlying algorithms focus on the entire distribution rather than a few statistical moments, leading to reduced downside risk and enhancing upside potential. Portfolio managers and
- 09/05/2017
Fixed income impact investing manager Community Capital Management’s (CCM) flagship CRA Qualified Investment Fund has exceeded USD2 billion in assets.
"We are excited and proud to share with our clients and industry partners that the CRA Qualified Investment Fund has reached another important milestone, surpassing USD2 billion in assets," says David Sand, chief investment strategist of CCM. "Reaching this level is a testament to the increasing demand for impact investments and the many investors specifically looking for fixed income impact investments."
CCM manages USD2.4 billion in assets – including the CRA Qualified Investment Fund, the CCM Alternative Income Fund
- 09/05/2017
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