CFTC Blesses Eurex Clearing U.S. regulator CFTC has authorized Eurex Clearing’s registration as a derivatives clearing organization (DCO), which will allow Eurex Clearing to provide clearing services for swaps for U.S. clearing members, officials say. The authorization makes Eurex Clearing the 16th DCO registered with the CFTC and the sixth registered DCO based outside the… Read More >>
Risk Analytics Pioneer to Get $10M PE Infusion
Risk analytics vendor Hanweck Associates will be getting $10 million in private equity financing and a large part of that debt and equity package will help fund the vendor’s exploration of innovations for margin and collateral optimization. A New York-based private equity firm, The Argentum Group has secured the financing and will have a cooperative… Read More >>
‘Advisors using Morningstar Office Can Quantify Client Risk Tolerance’
Riskalyze, a risk analytics vendor, and investment research provider, Morningstar, report that they have integrated their wares so that “up-to-date account data from Morningstar Office” can be fed into Riskalyze software on a nightly basis. Advisors that have Riskalyze, maker of Risk Number, and Morningstar Office can access their Morningstar Office client information from within… Read More >>
Cambridge Associates to Use PFaroe in the U.K.
Cambridge Associates, an investment advisor to institutional investors and private clients, is expanding its use of PFaroe, RiskFirst’s real-time analytics and reporting platform, to its interests in the United Kingdom, officials say. Cambridge adopted the platform in the U.S. in August 2014, according to a RiskFirst statement, which characterizes PFaroe as a “comprehensive suite of… Read More >>
Callan Associates Adopts RiskFirst’s PFaroe
Callan Associates, an investment consultancy firm, reports that it will use PFaroe, RiskFirst’s web-based pensions risk analytics platform, to “help institutional investors conduct asset allocation and asset/liability studies, as well as implement optimal investment strategies and de-risking solutions,” such as flight plans. In this context, a flight plan is simply a long-term business plan for… Read More >>
Cambridge Associates Signs On for New Risk Analytics
Cambridge Associates, a private-client and institutional investment advisor, reports an arrangement with RiskFirst (formerly PensionsFirst), a provider of risk analytics and reporting to the defined benefit pensions market, that will add PFaroe, RiskFirst’s web-based risk analytics platform, to Cambridge’s capabilities. “PFaroe allows on-demand stress testing of multiple scenarios to assist plan sponsors in reviewing complex… Read More >>
