
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?

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

Asset Service Providers: Opportunities and Challenges
Andrew Peddar, StatPro Group COO, discusses the opportunities and challenges facing Asset Service Providers and their middle office outsourcing services.

StatPro Workflow Issue Seven: Q1 2018
Review some of most popular blogs and articles from the StatPro content library – issues affecting asset managers and service providers of all sizes.

Physics, Aircraft Carriers, and Liquidity Buckets
Physics, Aircraft Carriers, and Liquidity Buckets

Technology to tame performance data management
How can asset service providers leverage technology to manage huge volumes of data at scale, while providing the highest quality results? Let’s quickly explore three areas that influence data quality.

DataTech: Technology Innovation that Puts Data first
DataTech: Technology Innovation that Puts Data first

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 Legacy performance and risk systems running on outdated software architecture simply can’t scale to meet today’s demands for the middle office.

Putting the Consistency in the Inconsistency: The Importance of a Global Regulatory Framework
Putting the Consistency in the Inconsistency: The Importance of a Global Regulatory Framework

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.

Moving Beyond ’Warehousing‘: The Need for Advanced DataTech
Moving Beyond ’Warehousing‘: The Need for Advanced DataTech

Why look-through transparency is no longer a nice to have requirement
Look-through transparency provides analysis of underlying exposures for both performance and risk, so the capability to provide this functionality for both performance measurement and risk measurement, based on a single source of data, would clearly be a benefit to many asset managers.