State Street wins this prestigious deal to insource Lazard's investment operations, which includes " trade settlement, portfolio administration, reconciliation, performance composite management, data management and preparation of client reports". I am curious why other back office processes remain at Lazard and why and and where there havedrawn the line...
As a result of this mandate, approximately 70 Lazard employees are expected to transfer to State Street. This remindes me a lot of the SGSS / Pioneer deal in Germany, only that they have outsourced middle and back office completely.
I wonder what kind of implications this has on the German business of Lazard, which still runs V3 in their back office...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
State Street Appointed by Lazard Asset Management to Provide Investment Manager Operations Outsourcing Services
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Swiss Life setzt auf SimCorp Dimension
Schon wieder eine Erfolgsmeldung für SimCorp: der Schweizer Spezialist für Lebensversicherungs- und Vorsorgelösungen, Swiss Life, entscheidet sich für SimCorp Dimension. Dabei wird die gesamte Prozesskette im Asset Management abgedeckt: Order-Management, Portfolio-Management, Compliance, Performance-Measurement und Accounting (IFRS) sowie entsprechendes Reporting.
Interessanter Aspekt dabei: meines Wissens setzt Swiss Life bisher MultiFonds von IGEFI ein...
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Monday, January 14, 2008
Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management selects SimCorp Dimension
Another sales success for SimCorp: Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management has chosen SimCorp Dimension for its middle and back-office tasks.
If you look at their home page the job offers directly reflect the closed deals they have made lately in Germany and the UK...
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Sunday, July 08, 2007
Asset Arena integriert GP3
Sungard hat (laut Pressemitteilung) in seiner Front-to-Back-Lösung Asset Arena das Fondsbuchaltungssystem GP3 integriert, und setzt zur Integration eine SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) ein. Asset Arena soll die Bereiche Trading, Compliance, Fondsbuchhaltung, Anlagekonten, Portfolio Management, Performance Measurement und Attribution abdecken.
Besonders interessant ist dabei der Hinweis auf GP3: "In Deutschland und Österreich kennzeichnet Asset Arena auch die Einführung von SunGards GP3, einer europäischen Fondsverwaltung für Asset Manager. Die web-basierte Lösung für die Verwaltung und Buchhaltung von internationalen Investmentfonds deckt alle Anforderungen der jeweiligen lokalen Märkte ab. GP3 wird als Teil der neuen Asset Arena Suite den Namen „Asset Arena Investment Accounting, powered by GP3“ tragen und ab Oktober 2007 für Deutschland und Österreich verfügbar sein."
Mehr Details sind in einer Präsentation von Produktmanager Matthias Olschewski nachzulesen. Hier steht insbesondere, welche V3-Produkte wie abgelöst werden: V3.Fonds duch "Asset Arena Investment Accounting GP3", V3.Grenzprüfung durch "Asset Arena Compliance" und V3.Portfolio durch "Asset Arena Decalog". Sungard verpflichtet sich darin, die Wartung und die gesetzlichen Anpassungen für V3.Fonds bis Ende 2010 (mit Option auf Verlängerung) weiter zu führen, und mindestens 2 Jahre vor Ablauf den Kunden eine entsprechende Mitteilung zu machen.
Nachtrag (7. August 2007): Noch aktuellere Informationen sind nun hier zu finden: www.sungard.de/gp3strategie.
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Friday, May 25, 2007
Link Lists for Investment Systems from Front- to Back-Office
I have compiled lists for fund accounting systems (see the surveys on the resepective topic, here from Barrington), transfer agency (see also the Barrington survey), compliance and order / portfolio management systems and added them as link lists on this blog (displayed on the right side). They will constantly be updated.
You may find other overviews on WallStreetAndTech (in English) and BankersPlus (in German, you might have to register first). Also interesting is the survey from Investment Advisor Association or the general surveys from Celent, or on specific issues on requirements for those systems at SourceMedia.
GCEY and KPMG also do surveys, but the the last publicly available survey on fund accounting systems I found is from 2004.
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