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Spears Abacus Advisors Selects Advent Portfolio Exchange® for Its Integrated Performance Analytics Capabilities

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - September 28, 2009) - Advent Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADVS), a leading provider of software and services for the global investment management industry, today announced that Spears Abacus Advisors LLC has selected Advent Portfolio Exchange® (APX), its award-winning, integrated portfolio and client relationship management solution, to take advantage of APX's robust performance analytics capabilities.
New York-based Spears Abacus is a registered investment advisor serving high-net-worth individuals and families. Spears Abacus was experiencing growing demand from clients for more in-depth descriptions of portfolio performance, ...   more »

An article I found about some additional services Northern Trust now provide in the Risk Attribution arena. Link Below:

http://www.financetech.com/feed/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220200068&cid=RSSfeed_FTN_All

Additionally, I have appended the link to NT's website where it details the functions the service provides

http://riskandperformance.northerntrust.com/pws/jsp/display2.jsp?XML=xsl/iras.xml&TYPE=iras/tab&id=1_3   more »

Source: StatPro, 23 September 2009
Federated Investors chooses StatPro for hosted GIPS compliance

StatPro, a leading provider of portfolio analytics and data solutions for the global asset management industry, announced today that Federated Investors, Inc., has chosen the hosted version of StatPro Composites to support its Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS) compliance and reporting requirements.


The agreement, which extends an existing relationship that has been in place since 2002, represents an important shift from an installed software solution to StatPro's recently rolled-out Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform. The new SaaS model offers StatPro customers a simpler and more cost-effective approach for using ...   more »

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Sophis and J.P. Morgan’s Prime Brokerage Business Announce a Comprehensive Portfolio and Risk Management Reporting Offering for Hedge Funds

Monday, September 21st, 2009 at 1:38 pm

iSophis will enable hedge funds to access a sophisticated portfolio and risk management solution to obtain a consolidated view of their positions, run risk calculations and generate reports

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Sophis, a leading provider of cross-asset, front-to-back portfolio and risk management solutions and J.P. Morgan’s Prime Brokerage business, today introduced iSophis, a sophisticated new technology that will allow hedge funds to comprehensively manage their portfolios across multiple prime brokers.

iSophis is ...   more »

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FTSE Group launches first in the range of Currency FRB Indices

Hong Kong, London and New York, 21 September 2009: FTSE Group (“FTSE”), the award winning global index provider, and Record Currency Management (“Record”), the specialist currency investment manager, have today launched the first set of indices within the new and innovative FTSE Currency Forward Rate Bias (FRB) Index Series, allowing investors to access this alternative beta within FTSE’s range of alternative indices.

The new FRB5 indices utilise the five most widely-traded currencies (US Dollar, Euro, Japanese Yen, Pound Sterling and Swiss Franc) in a forward rate bias ...   more »