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Falling margins and rising costs due to volatility mean that order management systems users are demanding more value for their money. The industry’s business and pricing models are changing, and vendors are having to become much more flexible in their approaches. While the leading vendors are still growing and acquiring new clients, the competition has become more severe. In the last few years, a spate of acquisitions has created a more compact market, where continuous innovation is key.
The OMS market has been going through a period of transition. It has had to cope with the aftermath of the financial
Advent Software has more than doubled the number of certified project management and consulting team members supporting clients in Europe, the Middle East and Africa during the past 12 months.
The team now includes more than 65 qualified Advent consultants and implementation project managers who bring global perspectives, industry best practices and solution expertise to Advent clients in these regions.
Given an uncertain economic climate, many clients across EMEA are looking to technology to achieve automation and operational efficiencies to help insulate their businesses from macro-economic conditions. Helping clients manage and grow their business with Advent(R) solutions has always been
ALTIN AG, the Swiss alternative investment company listed on the London and Swiss stock exchanges, has announced a change in its dividend policy. Whereas until now the company did not pay any dividend, the Board of Directors intends to propose each year to the Annual General Meeting that a dividend equivalent of 4% of the Net Asset Value (NAV) be paid.
Furthermore an additional distribution would be offered to shareholders, of 20% of the annual performance exceeding 4%. These amounts would be paid out of share premium reserves.
In order to make the company more attractive to investors, the Board
While celebrations are being held worldwide for the birth of the seven billionth baby, questions are being raised as to whether the world’s resources will be able to support its growing population. With this milestone, and the expectation that the world’s population could double by 2100, agronomists and scientists continue to research the agricultural solutions to address these issues, says Ralf Oberbannscheidt (pictured), portfolio manager, DWS Invest Global Agribusiness…
The DWS Invest Global Agribusiness fund continues to focus on companies which provide solutions to the stresses in the agribusiness food chain, monitoring the relationship between producers and consumers. For investors,
Wells Fargo & Company has launched the Wells Fargo Hedge Fund Manager Holdings Index. The Index measures the real-time performance of the 100 largest positions in equities and equity-related securities as reported quarterly to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by hedge funds or managed accounts.
The Index represents modified market capitalisation weighted to provide diversified exposure in the market. The securities are required to be listed on the NYSE or NASDAQ and to satisfy specific market capitalisation and other eligibility requirements.
"Aggregating hedge fund holdings and illustrating the performance through an index will bring greater transparency to the sector,"
The white paper ‘Pensions in Europe’ looks at what multinational companies see as the major issues facing them today with their pensions in Europe, examines what the companies are doing now and what they intend to do in the future.
What is in the white paper ‘Pensions in Europe’?

The latest AEGON Global Pensions white paper Pensions in Europe confirms three dominant trends in how multinational companies are managing their pensions today – a drive to improve and centralise pension governance, a strong shift to Defined Contribution pensions, and the move to de-risk Defined Benefit pensions.
The white paper also
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged a longtime Bernie Madoff employee with fraud for his role in creating fake trades to facilitate the massive Ponzi scheme.
The SEC alleges that David Kugel, who worked at Bernard L Madoff Investment Securities LLC (BMIS) for nearly four decades, was asked by Madoff to provide the firm’s investment advisory operations with backdated arbitrage trade information to be formulated into fictitious trading on investors’ account statements. Kugel’s own account at BMIS was among those in which backdated trades were entered, and he withdrew nearly USD10 million in “profits” from the fictitious trading
HSBC Global Asset Management gave a dim sum lunch presentation in London on Monday 21 November, during which the firm gave a positive review of the Chinese offshore RMB bond market and outlined the macro reasons for investing there.
Three key members of the team were in attendance, namely: Joanna Munro (pictured), Chief Executive, Asia Pacific HSBC Global Asset Management; Philip Poole, Global Head of Macro & Investment Strategy, and Geoff Lunt, Investment Director, Asian Fixed Income.
The overriding message that came out of the presentation was the huge potential that RMB bonds offer to investors, not just because of
The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a civil injunctive action against Patrick G Rooney, a resident of Oakbrook, Illinois, and his company, Solaris Management, LLC, the investment adviser to the Solaris Opportunity Fund, LP, for the fraudulent misuse of the fund’s assets and other illegal conduct.
According to the SEC’s complaint, the Solaris Fund is purportedly a non-directional hedge fund with approximately 30 investors and reported assets of USD16,277,780 as of December 2008. Contrary to the Solaris Fund’s offering documents and marketing materials, Rooney and Solaris Management allegedly made a radical change in the Solaris Fund’s investment strategy by
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Dr Sandradee Joseph GBP14,000 and banned her from performing any significant influence function in regulated financial services for breaching Principle 6 of the FSA’s Statements of Principle for Approved Persons.
Joseph was Compliance Officer at Dynamic Decisions Capital Management (DDCM), a hedge fund management company based in London (and Milan).
In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the investment strategy adopted by DDCM for the fund it managed resulted in losses totalling approximately 85% of the fund’s total assets under management. To conceal the losses, in late 2008, a senior employee
