Boston, MA, August 20, 2007
– A new Impact Report from Aite Group, LLC discusses the buy-side portfolio systems technology market and the entrance of several cross-over vendors from the banking, brokerage and treasury sectors.
Hedge fund growth, the need for risk controls and proper valuation, and the increasing use of derivative instruments across a broader population of investment managers, are altering the development queue
for portfolio systems. Multi-asset portfolio systems — those with the ability to process all types of assets including non-listed exotic instruments — are now attracting greater interest from buyers.
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The global portfolio systems market, which supports all types of asset management firms, reached approximately US$2.32 billion as of year-end 2006, and is expected
to reach US$2.67 billion by year-end 2010, representing an annualized growth rate of 2.8%.
There is only a select group of technology vendors today handling all instrument types with an integrated suite that offers support in areas such as advanced derivative processing, risk
analytics, yield curve analysis, instrument valuation, and collateral management. Over the last few years, studies have shown that investment managers prefer to use fewer vendors, making the integrated
front-to-back suite ideal. The suite concept supports future firm growth; should additional needs arise managers may add to their infrastructure on an as-needed basis.
"Even if buy-side firms are not currently engaged in a high volume of OTC trades, they are aware that further down the road, a change may take hold. To that end, buy-side firms are
querying technology vendors on the solution's ability to process these instruments today and in the future," says Denise Valentine,
senior analyst at Aite Group and author of this report. "We anticipate eventual convergence of traditional and multi-asset portfolio systems. At the moment, however, the vendors in the report
provide an integrated multi-asset portfolio suite with a range of features and functionality not available elsewhere. This means they will stay in the limelight for at least a few more years."
This 45-page Impact Report contains 11 Figures and 12 Tables, and includes the following vendors: Calypso, FNX Capital Markets, Imagine Software, Murex, OpenLink Financial, Sophis, and SunGard FRONT ARENA. Clients
of Aite Group's Institutional and Retail Securities & Investments Services can download the report by clicking on the icon to the right.
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