ASSET ARENA WHITEPAPERS

	Managed Services: The Smart Solution to Pricing Validation In today’s environment, validating security prices to help flag areas of risk and ensure funds' net asset values (NAVs) are correct is ever more crucial if investment managers are to meet their regulatory and fiduciary responsibilities. In this whitepaper SunGard discusses the challenges that a traditional price validation process poses and how to leverage a managed service solution to enable users to reduce risks and costs. [PDF, 157 KB]
	Counterparty Collections: How to Eliminate Operational, Financial and Reputational Risks While counterparty data remains a vital ingredient in industry pricing best practices, the steps involved in collecting the necessary information are beset by manually-intensive processes, rife with operational, financial and reputational risks. In this white paper, we examine the risks industry participants face and how they can mitigate those risks, reduce costs and improve their operating efficiencies by adopting an automated solution. [PDF, 189 KB]

	As Alternative Investments Go Mainstream, a Focus on Efficiencies Becomes Paramount The convergence between traditional and alternative investment products are affecting the industry in significant fashion. This white paper covers the dynamics impacting product and service capabilities, cross-jurisdiction platforms, institutional investor requirements and product development. [PDF, 407 KB]
	Service Level Agreements and TPA's: Your reputation is at stake In this paper, SunGard explores the current pitfalls of service level agreement monitoring experienced by third party fund administrators and discusses some of the solutions making a dramatic impact. [PDF, 684 KB]
	Experience Productivity Alpha in a highly competitive world "Better than average" is an important concept and one that can and should be applied to nearly all aspects of a business. In this article, SunGard will further explore the concept of “productivity alpha,” getting to the root of its meaning and providing actionable advice on how to achieve it within an asset management organization. [PDF, 211 KB]
	Algorithmic Operations In this whitepaper, SunGard will explain how, when used in concert, these technologies can help to transform the investment management industry and allow it to achieve unprecedented levels of efficiency. [PDF, 150 KB]
	Bridging the Gap Between Process Transparency and Process Control In this paper, SunGard looks at how to advance beyond process transparency to full process control in fund accounting. [PDF, 150 KB]
	Increasing efficiency while maintaining service quality Learn about ways asset servicers can successfully wrest additional efficiencies out of their existing infrastructures while facing new regulatory and business mandates. [PDF, 618 KB]
	Advances and Benefits of Workflow Tools Learn more about why the automation of workflow is the next wave of organizational efficiency in the asset management industry: Business Process Management (BPM). [PDF, 216 KB].
	The Business Case for ASP Read more about critical success factors for today's leading investment firms and asset servicers [PDF, 135 KB]
	Transforming the System - Three Steps to Technology Modernization This whitepaper describes why it is important to upgrade transfer agency-based client/server technology to Rich Internet Applications (Web 2.0). [PDF, 148 KB]

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VIDEO PRESENTATIONS

Arthur Levitt

Arthur Levitt, former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission discusses transparency and its implications for the investment management industry.

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