It’s time to consider a framework where firms start small, explain results, and scale gradually.
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Outsourcing Client Reporting: What Are the Options?
What is client reporting? Client reporting coupled with face-to-face client meetings have been the signature of successful client-manager relationships. With face-to-face meetings, figures can be articulated with sufficient context to bring understanding; shifting objectives can be more clearly explained, and the partnership is strengthened on both a social and professional front. These dialogues are key.
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Data Governance to the Rescue?
Introduction: Is data governance the silver bullet for all your data issues? Has the marriage of performance departments and the data office been a successful one? In this blog, we’ll explore the significance of data governance and its impact on addressing data challenges in the performance measurement and client reporting industry. Understanding Data Governance: Data
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Calculating Value Add at Scale for Tax-Managed Accounts
In this post, we will explain what tax-managed separately managed accounts (SMAs) are, clarify terms relative to performance measurement for tax-managed SMAs, and the challenges faced by performance professionals in measuring and attributing performance. After-Tax Returns Investors who care about maximizing after-tax returns may sometimes consider using tax-managed SMAs as part of their portfolio strategy.
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Some Pointers On Picking New IT Providers
As financial services firms work to create efficiencies in the performance measurement and client reporting teams, there are some fundamental questions that need to be addressed from an information technology (IT) management perspective. These questions also apply to all IT systems that support other facets of securities operations. Firms need to be sure to include
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How the Unique Transaction Identifier Solves Post-Trade Challenges
Securities settlement fails are costing the industry billions in operational overheads and fees today. This is only intensifying under the Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR) Settlement Discipline Regime in Europe and shortening settlement cycles. With the deadline for T+1 settlement implementation coming up on May 28, 2024, in the U.S., solving post-trade frictions that get
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Turning Margining Challenges into Solutions
(Editor’s Note: In this guest post for the Bull Run, Varqa Abyaneh, chief product officer from Quantile Technologies Ltd. focuses on industry participants grappling with the costs of funding multiple margin requirements globally.) Designed to improve the safety and stability of markets, regulation inevitably increases the cost of trading. Participants are still expected to deliver
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Time to Automate Performance Reporting for Clients & Prospects
I am looking forward to my participation in the Performance Measurement Americas (PMA) 2018 panel discussion entitled “Time for Full Automation,” which will take place Friday, March 9, at 12:05 p.m. at The Westin New York at Times Square, 270 W 43rd St., New York, NY 10036. Putting automation around the calculation of investment performance
