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SEI has partnered with the Burgiss Group to enhance its private equity platform by providing new levels of transparency and reporting to its private equity fund of funds clients.
SEI will use Burgiss’ technology to deliver detailed financial reporting data of the underlying portfolio company in a convenient online format.
The new capabilities meet an ongoing demand for increased transparency and reporting data to fund of funds managers and their investors.
Through the partnership, SEI and its clients gain immediate access to reporting on the underlying private equity funds in the Burgiss Group’s database.
SEI will integrate Burgiss’ proprietary
River Cities Capital Funds has selected Navatar’s private equity CRM over Netage Dynamo Private Equity Edition.
Navatar’s private equity CRM is built and runs entirely in salesforce.com’s cloud and is available for a low monthly fee.
Its flexible reporting engine can be used by non-technical staff to generate reports.
Navatar also provides all implementation services, accounts/contacts migration, training, maintenance and email support free of charge.
"All other things being more or less equal, Navatar Private Equity mitigates risk since our data will sit in salesforce.com’s cloud, as opposed to some local provider’s," says Robert Heimann, principal, River Cities Capital Funds.
Toby Nangle, Director, Multi-Asset and Fixed Income Team at Baring Asset Management, unravels the funding implications of the UK’s latest Budget.
The UK government funding requirement for 2009/10 was forecast in today’s Budget to be GBP167 billion, a substantial rise from GBP25 billion in 2009/10.
Historically, the Treasury has been reluctant to make use of Inflation-Linked (IL) Gilts, preferring to issue the great majority of its debt in fixed-rate instruments. Should this change?
The argument for moving the greater part of the present funding to Inflation-Linked appears compelling. Since the introduction of FRS17 linked pension fund liabilities directly to
Risk management solution provider Portfolio Science has extended the reach of its RiskAPI distributed risk engine through an agreement to integrate the product into FixQ, an enterprise investment management system from specialist software provider PortfolioShop.
RiskAPI uses an application programming interface that allows users to access exposure calculations through standard operating environments such as the Excel spreadsheet application, offering risk management capabilities to a broad spectrum of investment industry players, not just the largest and best-capitalised institutions.
APIs normally allow users to customise software by developing code that can access and manipulate the software’s features, says Portfolio Science president Ittai
SEI is expanding its bank loan operational outsourcing solution by using new technologies that increase loan processing automation and incorporate independently-sourced data.
The new functionality is delivered through Geneva, Advent Software’s portfolio management and fund accounting solution.
Advent recently entered into an agreement with Virtus Partners to integrate Geneva with Virtus’ bank loan data offering.
Through this relationship, SEI clients gain access to automated loan data feeds from Virtus, which can be electronically posted directly into Geneva via a standard integration tool developed by Advent and Virtus. This helps SEI maximise efficiency and use straight through processing of loan data
SEI is collaborating with long-standing partner RiskMetrics Group to provide its clients with independent risk management and reporting services that will integrate directly into the company’s flexible Manager Dashboard tool.
The new offering enhances SEI’s risk management solution and further addresses investment managers’ needs for greater transparency and detailed risk reporting amid growing investor demands and regulatory complexity.
As a result of the affiliation, SEI’s investment manager clients will be able to join RiskMetrics’ HedgePlatform Community, a network of hedge fund managers, fund of hedge fund managers and institutional investors.
As members of the HedgePlatform Community, SEI’s clients will
Gravitas, a technology solutions provider and business consultant to the alternative investment and financial services industries, has released the first suite of cloud services designed exclusively for alternative asset management firms.
Gravitas’ cloud computing service provides virtual server hosting at secure offsite co-location facilities and hosted applications including email, mail compliance, remote data backup and Voice over Internet Protocol services on a per user, per month basis.
The service also gives asset managers the ability to add computing capacity as it is needed, giving them the ability to scale to very large environments on demand.
“Alternative asset management firms
CarryQuote a provider of integrated desktop and mobile financial information solutions, has signed its reseller agreement in the US with EmergingTraders.com, an alternative investment management company.
The partnership enables EmergingTraders.com to offer a branded version of the CarryQuote solution to its universe of managed futures traders and investors, and expands CarryQuote’s domestic presence.
The CarryQuote solution provides real-time pricing data, actionable analytics, and personalised alerts through an integrated mobile and online interface.
By offering a branded, white-label application for investors, EmergingTraders.com can increase its number of customer touch-points and generate greater visibility among its user base of more than 10,000
Gravitas Technology, a technology and solution provider to alternative investment and financial services companies, has launched The Gravitas Fractional CIO offering to provide strategic information technology guidance to hedge funds.
This is the first fractional CIO service targeted exclusively to hedge funds and private equity firms.
Chief information officers play a critical role at both large and small funds. The CIO is responsible for identifying, recommending and developing technology solutions that control the firm’s internal and external information flows and directly impact fund performance and business efficiency. A CIO is also responsible for ensuring the company’s information technology investments are
Denver Alternatives has launched a separately managed account structure that provides alternative investors with enhanced multi-strategy and multi-manager capabilities.
The United Alpha Account offers investors greater control over their assets including increased transparency, incentive fees based on the performance of the overall account, and no artificial liquidity constraints.
Investors have access to any combination of ten different alternative strategies managed in-house by seasoned professionals with strong long-term performance records. Denver Alternatives’ portfolio managers can provide the allocation among these strategies or implement an allocation decision as directed by the client or its consultant. Realignment of individual strategy weights can be
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