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Global Risk Outlook: FANG stocks in volatility

Global Risk Outlook: FANG stocks in volatility

The four FANG stocks have had a significant impact on the US equity market when looked at as a whole. Together, they account for nearly 8% of the S&P 500, and that number will rise if the market cap of these giants continues to increase. So what happens to market volatility when the hottest trade starts to unwind?

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How Smart Can Your Fund Be?

How Smart Can Your Fund Be?

In his latest blog, Tom Pfister, Global Vice President of Product Strategy, discusses the similarities between SmartCities and the work the asset management industry is doing to gain insights through

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Asset Service Providers: How to achieve scale with flexibility

Asset Service Providers: How to achieve scale with flexibility

Producing high quality and accurate data and analytics in an ever shorter time frame is at the heart of the scalability challenge for asset service providers. Legacy performance and risk systems running on outdated software architecture simply can’t scale to meet today’s demands for the middle office.

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What does the VIX really tell us?

What does the VIX really tell us?

A lot has been made of the recent spike in the VIX, which in February jumped from single-digit levels to nearly 50% following a prolonged period of low volatility. Now that “market volatility is back,” we thought it would be a good time to examine what exactly the VIX measures and how to interpret it.

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