"Like Heston's gateau, time and effort must be put into sourcing quality ingredients or data whose attributes are accurate, well regarded and consistent."

In The Art of Perfection series we are exploring what asset managers can learn from the worlds of art, science and studies into the human body. 

The quicker a mistake is spotted, the sooner it can be fixed. But if a middle office error goes unnoticed until it reaches the front office, there could be serious repercussions.

Key issues for the middle office in asset management firms today.

On September 28th 2016, we launched Revolution Performance, the latest expansion to the StatPro Revolution platform.

In The Art of Perfection series we are exploring what asset managers can learn from the worlds of art, science and studies into the human body.

How many asset managers have made a serious study of the total cost of ownership (TCO) of their on-premise performance measurement system?

By Damian Handzy and Carl Bacon

Professional risk managers are a curious combination of artist, scientist and practitioner, simultaneously employing intuition, complex mathematical analysis and hard-earned...

Many Asset Managers don’t have a way of measuring different asset classes on the same platform and this can lead to some serious issues. 

  Past performance may be no guide to the future, but asset managers and investors still want meaningful data that tells them what has (or hasn’t) been achieved.