Asset managers are facing a perfect storm. A combination of mounting regulatory pressure, the shift to low capital market returns and increasing competition have left margins looking wafer thin.
There are a number of reasons why asset managers are increasingly looking to integrate their performance measurement and risk analytics systems.
Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®) are ever-evolving to keep up with the fast-changing investment industry.
Coming soon: GIPS 20/20, the latest update of the performance standards to which more than 1,600 fund managers around the world now subscribe.
In The Art of Perfection series we are exploring what asset managers can learn from the worlds of art, science and studies into the human body.
How many asset managers have made a serious study of the total cost of ownership (TCO) of their on-premise performance measurement system?
By Damian Handzy and Carl Bacon
Professional risk managers are a curious combination of artist, scientist and practitioner, simultaneously employing intuition, complex mathematical analysis and hard-earned...
Many Asset Managers don’t have a way of measuring different asset classes on the same platform and this can lead to some serious issues.
Past performance may be no guide to the future, but asset managers and investors still want meaningful data that tells them what has (or hasn’t) been achieved.
"Asset managers today face a fundamental and indisputable fact: the world they are analyzing in order to make and execute investment decisions is increasingly complex and rich in data."