News
The latest news from SunGard Alternative Investments:
BNL Vita Selects SunGard’s FastVal for Independent Valuation of Complex Derivatives
Milan, 23rd June 2010
BNL Vita, an Italian banking insurance company that specializes in the life sector, has selected SunGard’s FastVal, an independent valuation service for vanilla and complex over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, to independently value its client’s portfolios.
F&C Asset Management Adopts SunGard's APT Commodities Model
London, 27th May 2010
F&C Asset Management, a global asset manager with €141 billion in assets under management (AUM), has extended its use of SunGard's APT by implementing an extension to its suite of multi-asset class, multi-factor risk models that helps enhance and expand the treatment of commodities.
SunGard's VPM Integrates With Bloomberg ASP Hedge Fund Solution
New York, 19th May 2010
SunGard’s VPM portfolio accounting solution is to be offered as part of Bloomberg’s hedge fund solution suite. SunGard’s VPM will be integrated with Bloomberg’s execution platform, Bloomberg Tradebook, and its order management system, Bloomberg Asset & Investment Manager (AIM). The combined solution will help customers gain greater operational transparency and improve their investor reporting capabilities.
NASDAQ OMX and SunGard to Deliver Risk Analytics for NASDAQ OMX Indexes
London, 17th May 2010
SunGard and The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. are offering new risk analytics for a range of selected NASDAQ OMX indexes, helping investment firms effectively manage financial risk and better respond to volatile markets. Through SunGard’s APT, which provides risk modeling, reporting, risk attribution and scenario analysis capabilities, firms will be able to gain greater insight into NASDAQ OMX indexes, in turn helping enhance investment decision making.
Nextam Partners Goes Live with SunGard’s APT for Multi-Asset Risk Modeling, Analysis and Reporting
Milan, 6th May 2010
Nextam Partners, a leading Italian independent investment management company, has gone live with SunGard’s APT to support its multi-asset risk modeling, fund risk analysis and fund services reporting activities.
SEI Enhances Side Pocket Processing Capabilities
Oaks, PA, 6th April 2010
SEI (NASDAQ:SEIC) today announced that it has further expanded its capabilities related to the processing and accounting of side pocket investments for fund managers. SEI spearheaded the design and development of expanded functionality intended to provide managers with greater processing control, efficiencies, and risk reduction capabilities related to these pools of separate illiquid assets.
LS Power Selects SunGard’s Investran for Private Equity Administration
New York, 11th February 2010
LS Power, a New York-based investment firm focused on the development, acquisition and management of power generation and transmission infrastructure, has selected SunGard’s Investran to help address its accounting needs for private equity administration. LS Power will use Investran for customer relationship management and investment and partnership accounting. Investran supports the entire investment lifecycle, from fundraising to reporting and portfolio monitoring, by automating front-, middle- and back-office processes for private equity and alternative investment firms.
Columbus Avenue Consulting Selects SunGard’s FastVal for Independent Valuation
New York, 2nd February 2010
Columbus Avenue Consulting (Columbus), a global fund administrator, has selected SunGard’s FastVal, a portfolio valuation solution delivered on an ASP basis, to help independently value its clients portfolios. SunGard’s FastVal provides financial institutions with full transparency of the models and underlying market data used in the valuation, as well as enhanced Greeks, greater functionality in the running of intra-day valuations, and comprehensive product coverage across all asset classes. Columbus Avenue is the first customer to go-live on FastVal 3.0, SunGard’s latest FastVal release.