SunGard Adds to WealthStation Financial Planning Features

SunGard announced more enhancements to its WealthStation platform, including a cash flow-based approach to retirement planning, new online self-service client tools, and new financial planning capabilities for Canadian firms.

According to a SunGard news release, WealthStation’s financial planning module has been redesigned to provide a cash flow retirement planning approach that helps clients use assets on an as-needed basis and supports deferred taxation on qualified plans. It helps an adviser’s clients take advantage of more specific, multiple retirement goals using multi-phased assumptions on objectives, returns and taxes, including factors such as part-time income, the company said.

The company also said WealthStation’s online client access capabilities have been expanded with additional planning modules that advisers can provide to their clients via the Web.

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Last week, the firm announced the addition of the financial planning module (see SunGard Integrates Financial Planning Content into WealthStation Platform).

BoNY Mellon Launches Global Depository Receipt Indexes

The Bank of New York Mellon launched The Bank of New York Mellon GDR Index and 30 global depositary receipt (GDR) subindexes.

According to a press release, The Bank of New York Mellon GDR Index comprises all GDRs traded on the London Stock Exchange. The new subindexes include one market, six regional, and 23 country GDR indexes, and serve as benchmarking tools for investors and intermediaries to track the GDR market and to benchmark specific GDR holdings.

The company also announced the launch of a broader composite index, The Bank of New York Mellon DR Index, which combines The Bank of New York Mellon GDR Index and The Bank of New York Mellon ADR Index. The Bank of New York Mellon ADR Index includes all American depositary receipts (ADRs) listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the American Stock Exchange (AMEX), and NASDAQ.

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Also launched were one market, four regional, and eight country subindexes of The Bank of New York Mellon DR Index. The 14 new DR indexes join the bank’s established DR indexes—The Bank of New York Mellon Russia Select DR Index, The Bank of New York Mellon Frontier Select DR Index, and The Bank of New York Mellon New Frontier DR Index.

The Bank of New York Mellon GDR Index, The Bank of New York DR Index, and their subindexes are capitalization-weighted and calculated on a continuous basis throughout the trading day, the announcement said.


More information is available at www.bnymellon.com/dr.

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