Showing posts with label investment management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label investment management. Show all posts
Friday, 10 October 2008
Invesco PowerShares
Invesco PowerShares is a part of Invesco Ltd., a leading independent global investment management company dedicated to helping people worldwide build their financial security. By delivering the combined power of its distinctive worldwide investment management capabilities, including AIM, Atlantic Trust, Invesco, Perpetual, PowerShares, Trimark, and WL Ross, Invesco provides a comprehensive array of enduring investment solutions for retail, institutional and high-net-worth clients around the world. Operating in 20 countries, the company is currently listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol IVZ. Additional information is available at www.invesco.com.
Tuesday, 23 September 2008
Trading Shorts
Credit Suisse Eggers in Farsight Award
The Farsight Award is a project between the Universities Superannuation Scheme, Gresham College and the Enhanced Analytics Initiative, with support from Z/Yen Group Limited. The objective of the Farsight Award is to honour the best individual piece of analysis by an investment research institution that integrates traditional financial analysis with longer-term issues such as climate change, scarcity, corporate governance and human capital.
Waddell & Reed Selects Charles River
Charles River Development (Charles River), an award-winning provider of financial software and services to the global investment management community, today announced that Waddell & Reed Investment Management Company and its affiliates, which have $70 billion in assets under management, have selected the Charles River Investment Management System (Charles River IMS) to provide a new portfolio management system, including for its equity, fixed income and foreign exchange operations.
QuantOffice Integrated with Vhayu Velocity Tick by Deltix
Deltix, Inc. has entered into a partnership agreement with Vhayu Technologies, Inc. to provide the Vhayu Velocity™ tick database with Deltix QuantOffice™, enabling users to process, manage and store year’s worth of market data for optimized quant research analysis.“Vhayu’s enterprise class tick database increases the amount of data and intricate analytics available within Deltix QuantOffice/QuantServer product suite
RadarLite from SoftCapital
SoftCapital (SC), a leading independent software vendor, today announced the introduction of the company’s newest trading tool, RadarLite. Designed to run completely in a browser, behaving exactly like an installed application, as well as running on all operation systems aka. Windows, Linux and Apple.
Fair Value By Benchmark Indices
Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC), a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related services, today announced the results of recent quantitative research conducted by its Pricing and Reference Data business which compared international mutual funds with relevant benchmark indices. Through statistical analysis, the research revealed that comparing the performance of international mutual funds that use fair value adjustments .
Macalla Powers TSB Text Banking Service
Macalla, leader and innovator in mobile payment solutions, has announced the launch of permanent tsb's mobile banking solution powered by the Macalla Platform."We choose Macalla because of its combined mobile and banking experience. Our decision was a wise one as at each phase of the project their expertise was invaluable," said Tim Bicknell, Head of Current Accounts and Online Development, permanent tsb.
Cordys and CSC Alliance
Cordys, a global leader in next generation Business Process Management (BPM), has formed a strategic alliance with CSC (NYSE: CSC), a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services, bringing together two of the major players within the BPM sector.The alliance will enable organisations around the globe to benefit from a new breed of innovative business process driven solutions, deployed on the Cordys Business Operations Platform (BOP), and
EmployBridge Selects Sungards AvantGard
EmployBridge, a leading US provider of branded, industry-specific staffing solutions, has selected SunGard’s AvantGard to help automate and improve the efficiency of its order-to-cash cycle. The company will use the AvantGard receivables management solution to help improve cash flow, mitigate bad debt expense and minimize operational costs.Effective management of trade receivables is a critical area to target for liquidity management and process improvements
EMVCo Annual User Meeting Announced
EMVCo, the EMV standards body owned by JCB International, MasterCard Worldwide and Visa Inc., has today announced plans to broaden industry participation in the development work of the organisation and establish a regular, formal dialogue between EMVCo and the global payments industry, through the launch of a new website subscription programme and annual user meeting. To be launched during the first quarter of 2009, a new subscription programme delivered through the EMVCo website
TTT Moneycorp Real-time Messaging
SMA Financial, SWIFT Regional partner for UK, Eire and Channel Islands today announced that TTT Moneycorp (Moneycorp), the leading international foreign exchange and payments specialist, has moved to real-time message processing over the SWIFT network using MQ Series.To cope with rapidly expanding business volumes and to automate its payment, banking and treasury services, Moneycorp initially implemented the SMA Bureau Service to send payment messages over the secure SWIFT network.
The Farsight Award is a project between the Universities Superannuation Scheme, Gresham College and the Enhanced Analytics Initiative, with support from Z/Yen Group Limited. The objective of the Farsight Award is to honour the best individual piece of analysis by an investment research institution that integrates traditional financial analysis with longer-term issues such as climate change, scarcity, corporate governance and human capital.
Waddell & Reed Selects Charles River
Charles River Development (Charles River), an award-winning provider of financial software and services to the global investment management community, today announced that Waddell & Reed Investment Management Company and its affiliates, which have $70 billion in assets under management, have selected the Charles River Investment Management System (Charles River IMS) to provide a new portfolio management system, including for its equity, fixed income and foreign exchange operations.
QuantOffice Integrated with Vhayu Velocity Tick by Deltix
Deltix, Inc. has entered into a partnership agreement with Vhayu Technologies, Inc. to provide the Vhayu Velocity™ tick database with Deltix QuantOffice™, enabling users to process, manage and store year’s worth of market data for optimized quant research analysis.“Vhayu’s enterprise class tick database increases the amount of data and intricate analytics available within Deltix QuantOffice/QuantServer product suite
RadarLite from SoftCapital
SoftCapital (SC), a leading independent software vendor, today announced the introduction of the company’s newest trading tool, RadarLite. Designed to run completely in a browser, behaving exactly like an installed application, as well as running on all operation systems aka. Windows, Linux and Apple.
Fair Value By Benchmark Indices
Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC), a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related services, today announced the results of recent quantitative research conducted by its Pricing and Reference Data business which compared international mutual funds with relevant benchmark indices. Through statistical analysis, the research revealed that comparing the performance of international mutual funds that use fair value adjustments .
Macalla Powers TSB Text Banking Service
Macalla, leader and innovator in mobile payment solutions, has announced the launch of permanent tsb's mobile banking solution powered by the Macalla Platform."We choose Macalla because of its combined mobile and banking experience. Our decision was a wise one as at each phase of the project their expertise was invaluable," said Tim Bicknell, Head of Current Accounts and Online Development, permanent tsb.
Cordys and CSC Alliance
Cordys, a global leader in next generation Business Process Management (BPM), has formed a strategic alliance with CSC (NYSE: CSC), a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services, bringing together two of the major players within the BPM sector.The alliance will enable organisations around the globe to benefit from a new breed of innovative business process driven solutions, deployed on the Cordys Business Operations Platform (BOP), and
EmployBridge Selects Sungards AvantGard
EmployBridge, a leading US provider of branded, industry-specific staffing solutions, has selected SunGard’s AvantGard to help automate and improve the efficiency of its order-to-cash cycle. The company will use the AvantGard receivables management solution to help improve cash flow, mitigate bad debt expense and minimize operational costs.Effective management of trade receivables is a critical area to target for liquidity management and process improvements
EMVCo Annual User Meeting Announced
EMVCo, the EMV standards body owned by JCB International, MasterCard Worldwide and Visa Inc., has today announced plans to broaden industry participation in the development work of the organisation and establish a regular, formal dialogue between EMVCo and the global payments industry, through the launch of a new website subscription programme and annual user meeting. To be launched during the first quarter of 2009, a new subscription programme delivered through the EMVCo website
TTT Moneycorp Real-time Messaging
SMA Financial, SWIFT Regional partner for UK, Eire and Channel Islands today announced that TTT Moneycorp (Moneycorp), the leading international foreign exchange and payments specialist, has moved to real-time message processing over the SWIFT network using MQ Series.To cope with rapidly expanding business volumes and to automate its payment, banking and treasury services, Moneycorp initially implemented the SMA Bureau Service to send payment messages over the secure SWIFT network.
Monday, 15 September 2008
Advent Software at TradeTech West 2008
Advent Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADVS), the leading provider of software and services for the investment management industry, announced today that John Bird, Director of Product Marketing for its Trade Order Management group, will speak at TradeTech West 2008 taking place in San Francisco this week. Produced by TradeTech, the premier North American equity trading summit, TradeTech West is the largest West Coast event addressing equity trading challenges.
Bird will participate in a panel session, titled "Best Practices for Seamlessly Integrating Your Trading Process Into Your Portfolio Management." Taking place on Wednesday, September 17th, the panel will discuss how good communication between the portfolio manager and the trader is central to the profitable construction of an equity portfolio. The panel will explore those areas of the trading process that can often be overlooked by the portfolio manager and will outline best practices for achieving better synergy between the portfolio manager and the trader.
Event: TradeTech West 2008
Location: The Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, CA
Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 12:50 p.m.
Bird will participate in a panel session, titled "Best Practices for Seamlessly Integrating Your Trading Process Into Your Portfolio Management." Taking place on Wednesday, September 17th, the panel will discuss how good communication between the portfolio manager and the trader is central to the profitable construction of an equity portfolio. The panel will explore those areas of the trading process that can often be overlooked by the portfolio manager and will outline best practices for achieving better synergy between the portfolio manager and the trader.
Event: TradeTech West 2008
Location: The Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, CA
Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 12:50 p.m.
Tuesday, 2 September 2008
Evercore Partners
Evercore Partners is an investment banking boutique and investment firm. Evercore's Advisory business counsels its clients on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings and other strategic transactions. Evercore's Investment Management business manages private equity funds and traditional asset management services for sophisticated institutional investors. Evercore serves a diverse set of clients around the world from its offices in New York, San Francisco, London, Mexico City and Monterrey, Mexico. More information about Evercore can be found on the firm's Web site at www.evercore.com. EVR-X.
Thursday, 31 July 2008
Mesirow Financial
Mesirow Financial is a diversified financial services firm headquartered in Chicago. Founded in 1937, it is an independent, employee-owned firm with $32.2 billion in assets under management and more than 1,100 employees in locations across the country and in London. With expertise in Investment Management, Investment Services, Insurance Services, Investment Banking, Consulting and Real Estate, Mesirow Financial strives to meet the financial needs of institutions, public sector entities, corporations and individuals. For more information about Mesirow Financial, visit its Web site at http://www.mesirowfinancial.com/.
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