Despite backlashes against ESG-based efforts, is it time to start thinking about net-zero investing? Officials at the CFA Institute Research and Policy Center think so and recently released a guide to help investors (and investment firms) “advance the theory and practice of net-zero investing.” The guide is a serialized volume, “Investment Innovations Toward Achieving Net… Read More >>
Dismantling Data Silos Boosts Regulatory Compliance
(As performance and client reporting teams — and other internal groups — gear up to comply with the SEC Marketing Rule, Form ADV, and Reg BI, they will welcome the end of data silos, says Rab Govil, CEO and founder of Naehas, a provider of customer engagement and compliance automation solutions. Govil, who has been… Read More >>
Meet Your PMCR Chairperson: Ambika D’Souza
(Ambika D’Souza, CIPM, CSPO, is serving as the chairperson for Financial Technology Forum’s Performance Measurement & Client Reporting conference and is an advisory board member for the FTF event on Feb. 29. D’Souza agreed to do a Q&A about her more than 25 years of performance and analytics experience. She was formerly a vice president… Read More >>
Nominations Are Open for the 2024 FTF Awards!
Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) has launched the nomination process for the 2024 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards competition, which recognizes the operational excellence of professionals, financial technology vendors, service providers, and industry bodies that had significant achievements in the 2023 calendar year. The winners of the FTF Awards competition are chosen by their peers in… Read More >>
FINRA Proposal Would Allow Performance Projections & Targets
FINRA is proposing a change to its “Communications with the Public” rule that could let its broker-dealer members send out performance projections or targets about private securities, asset allocations, and other investment strategies. While the move represents an easing of past prohibitions, firms will still be subject to the “stringent conditions” of the self-regulatory organization… Read More >>
FinTech Brief: SimCorp Offers Investment Analytics Platform
SimCorp is launching a cloud-native performance attribution solution that targets the “growing demand” for accurate performance analytics delivered in real-time, officials say. The new service is the first to be offered via SimCorp’s Investment Analytics Platform, the next stage of SimCorp’s performance measurement offerings, officials say. The new platform is “a calculation service … constructed… Read More >>
CCOs Worry Most About SEC’s Marketing Rule: Survey
The SEC’s controversial marketing rule, a comprehensive effort to regulate investment advisers’ marketing communications, remains a top concern among the chief compliance officers (CCOs) at these firms, according to the results of the 2023 Investment Management Compliance Testing (IMCT) survey. Nearly three-quarters of survey respondents, or 70.32 percent, chose advertising/marketing as the hottest compliance issue… Read More >>
PIMCO Settles Disclosure & Procedure Case for $9M
Pacific Investment Management Company LLC (PIMCO) has agreed to a $9 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over two enforcement actions concerning alleged disclosure violations and policies and procedures woes directly related to two funds that the bond giant oversees. “In the first action, the SEC found that, from September 2014 to… Read More >>
FINRA Fines Vanguard $800K for Inaccurate Fund Statements
Shouldn’t a firm like Vanguard Marketing Corp., (VMC) which has been a member of FINRA, the broker-dealer industry’s self-regulatory organization, since 1977, know better than to have allegedly “overstated projected yield and projected annual income for nine money market funds on approximately 8.5 million VMC account statements?” Says FINRA: “From at least October 2019 to… Read More >>
FTF Unveils Winners of the 2023 FTF Awards
With nods to established players and voter enthusiasm for other providers hitting their stride, Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) has unveiled the winners of the 2023 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards competition. The 30 winners of the FTF Awards competition — now in its 12th year — are being honored for achievements during 2022. “It’s not… Read More >>
