Products September 7, 2010

EMA Softech Introduces Mutual Fund Analysis Software

The investment software firm says the new Web-based tool, AlphaFunds, provides advisers with advanced risk analysis and performance measurement capabilities to evaluate mutual funds.  
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In a statement, EMA Softech says AlphaFunds employs advanced financial economic methodology based on the academic- and industry proven multi-factor asset-pricing approach developed by some of the world’s leading financial economists, including Eugene Fama and Kenneth French. 

“Until now, multi-factor fund evaluation technology has been offered only by the world’s largest institutional investment advisers who serve the large pension plan sponsors, endowments and trusts,” said Charles Gabriel, CEO of EMA Softech. “AlphaFunds now brings this advanced technology to RIAs and other investment professionals as a Web-based solution that also is competitively priced.” 

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The AlphaFunds application is the latest in a series of online “cloud-based”software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings from EMA Softech, available on a subscription basis. 

 

Deals & People September 7, 2010

UBS Appoints New Head of Alternative Investment Solutions

UBS Global Asset Management has appointed Bruce Amlicke as Co-CIO and Head of Alternative Investment Solutions (AIS).
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Amlicke reports to Bill Ferri, Global Head of Alternative and Quantitative Investments (A&Q) and is based in Stamford, CT. He will work closely with Rick Nardis, Co-CIO of AIS, and Bill Brown, formerly Co-CIO of AIS, who is taking on a more focused role in hedge fund manager and strategy research.   

According to the announcement, Amlicke returns to the firm after spending five years at Blackstone where he was the CIO of the fund of hedge funds business. He started his career in 1986 at O’Connor, A&Q’s single manager hedge fund provider, and was a key member of the team that founded the AIS business in 2000.   

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AIS manages or advises on approximately $20 billion in hedge fund portfolios and has teams based in Stamford, New York, London, Hong Kong, and Tokyo.  

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