MSCI Offers Integrated Access to Its Wares MSCI, a provider of indexes and other decision support services, has launched an open architecture technology platform, dubbed MSCI ONE, that uses the Microsoft Azure cloud platform to create integrated access to “MSCI’s portfolio of products and solutions,” officials say. MSCI ONE includes “capabilities in quantitative investment… Read More >>
Citi Services to Target SEC Mutual Funds Rules
Citigroup is partnering with MSCI and Confluence to develop “user-friendly services” that will help the bank’s clients adjust to the SEC’s reporting modernization and liquidity risk management rules, slated to take effect later this year. “The SEC’s sweeping reporting modernization and liquidity risk management rules place an added operational burden on asset managers,” according to… Read More >>
Brexit Would Breed Chaos for London Firms: Report
With the European Union Referendum just over a month away on June 23, the arguments are flying fast and furious on both sides. For the undecided it is difficult to decipher the rhetoric but there is no doubt that leaving will plunge the country and the region into the world of the unknown and potentially… Read More >>
SimCorp Dimension Upgrade Widens Views Across Ops
Investment management systems and services vendor SimCorp has updated its enterprise solution SimCorp Dimension, release 5.8, and is including new support for the back office, a performance analysis manager, tighter integration with MSCI’s RiskMetrics and the introduction of a manager for investment book of record (IBOR) models, officials say. The back office module will allow… Read More >>
SmartStream Hires from MSCI
SmartStream Technologies, the financial transaction lifecycle management specialist, reports that Daniel Pedersen has been named to head sales and business development in Europe. He will report to SmartStream CEO Philippe Chambadal. Prior to joining SmartStream, Pedersen, a veteran with more than 20 years in financial services, worked for four years at RiskMetrics, “where he held… Read More >>
MSCI Names Global Head of Client Coverage
MSCI, a provider of investment decision support tools, has named Laurent Seyer as a managing director and global head of client coverage. He will report to Henry Fernandez, MSCI’s chairman and CEO, and be a member of the firm’s executive committee. Before joining New York-based MSCI, Seyer was global head of the client group at… Read More >>
RBS Luxembourg to Deploy RiskMetrics
MSCI Inc., a provider of risk management and investment-decision support tools, reports that RBS (Luxembourg), has chosen MSCI as its vendor for regulatory risk reporting. RBS (Luxembourg) is part of the Royal Bank of Scotland’s wholesale banking arm. The bank uses two products available on the RiskMetrics platform, according to MSCI: RiskManager for managed services… Read More >>
Wurts & Assoc. Picks MSCI Platform
MSCI Inc., a provider of investment decision support tools, reports that Wurts & Associates, an investment consulting firm, has chosen MSCI’s InvestorForce platform to manage its performance and reporting processes, replacing the company’s previous internal system. Wurts has subscribed to the full suite of InvestorForce services, including InvestorForce Insight, which they will use to provide… Read More >>
Japan’s GPIF Using New MSCI Indexes
Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), the world’s largest pension fund, has added new MSCI indexes to its portfolio and also announced that it intends to introduce factor allocation, in addition to its existing active and passive mandates. MSCI, a provider of indexing and portfolio analytics systems, recently completed research for GPIF on the utility… Read More >>
SimCorp, MSCI Build Interface
SimCorp, an investment management solutions and services vendor, has entered into an agreement with MSCI, a provider of investment decision support tools, to support a direct data and analytics link between SimCorp Dimension and the MSCI RiskManager platforms. A future connection to MSCI’s BarraOne product also is planned, according to a SimCorp statement. The new… Read More >>
