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UK-based investment manager Emergent Asset Management has signed up for Imagine Software’s internet-based risk management service, Derivatives.com. The vendor, which last had a risk management win in September with Paris-based Mereor Investment Management and Advisory (see here), will provide Emergent with risk management for its funds and managed accounts services, including related UCITS III compliant products.
The Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) has published a new paper in order to provide firms with technical advice for data formats regarding fund mergers, master-feeder structures and notification procedures under UCITS IV. The advice has taken into consideration industry feedback on the measures, following a consultation period that ended in September, and indicates that more advice will be forthcoming regarding a central IT structure for data sharing between member states.
In line with its recent focus on real-time risk management, Sybase has teamed up with investment portfolio risk management solution vendor Siag Risk Management to develop an offering aimed at providing real-time, on demand and intraday visibility of investment portfolio risk. Stuart Grant, business development manager at Sybase, explains that strategic technology partnership will involve a combination of Siag’s grid enabled calculation engines and two of Sybase’s flagship products.
In line with its global expansion plans and a spate of recent new hires, investment management solution provider DST Global Solutions has added a new business development team to its on the ground presence in China. The team will be headed by Nancy Yu, who was previously head of sales for DST Global Solutions’ China and Hong Kong operations, and will be responsible for the introduction of new business solutions, as well as the identification of partnership and acquisition opportunities in the Chinese market.
The pricing and valuations space is becoming ever more complex and data management teams focused on this function are being asked to do even more with fewer resources at hand, so how can they cope? The answer may lie in increasing automation and slotting this area of data management into a wider enterprise data management (EDM) strategy, according to panellists at the recent A-Team Group, GoldenSource and Interactive Data valuations event in London.


















