SunGard has integrated Dow Jones CDX and iTraxx index pricing within its Decalog portfolio management solution. Markit Group, the calculation agent for both indices, provides the index pricing. SunGard�s Decalog is a front and middle-office solution for investment management activities at global asset management firms.

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We�re all holding our breath, waiting for the other shoe to drop. When exactly will the European Commission publish its white paper on investment management?Please login or register to see the full article

Some announcements can be seen as straws in the wind, small indicators of a forthcoming trend. Others seem more like a tree being whirled overhead in a hurricane ââ?¬â?? this is not a trend we are predicting, it is something that is happening now.Please login or register to see the full article

Axa Investment Managers (Axa IM) has opened an office in Amsterdam Schiphol to service institutional asset management clients and distribute its investment funds.Please login or register to see the full article

If competition sharpens up performance, Allianz Global Investor Europe must be expecting good things in the future. With Pimco and Allianz already big players in the European market, they are being joined by the third from the AGI stable, Nicholas-Applegate Capital Markets.Please login or register to see the full article

Ashmore Group, the specialist emerging-markets asset manager, is set to float this month on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).Please login or register to see the full article

HSBC Investments has handed three actively managed UK equity funds to its multimanager team to select external managers.Please login or register to see the full article

Citigroup has joined forces with Aegon, a Netherlands-based insurance company, to create an investment platform that will facilitate a range of asset strategies, in particular portable alpha, through pooling. The integration represents ââ??¬40bn in assets under custody.Please login or register to see the full article

It seems to have been established that investing in hedge funds is a good idea, in principle. The problem investors now face is how to gauge which hedge funds are most likely to fulfil their promises or even keep afloat.Please login or register to see the full article

Quantitative methods are now playing a bigger role in equity portfolio management than they did two years ago, according to a survey conducted by Prof Frank Fabozzi at Yale University in conjunction with Paris-based research firm Intertek Group. Please login or register to see the full article