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BACKGROUND A global OCIO provider with over $100 billion AUM decided to change from a proprietary trading platform to Charles River. Their current order management system supported trading for in-house branded mutual funds, third-party-managed collective trusts, separately managed accounts and alternative assets. The system also acted as IBOR and provided data to several downstream applications.
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BACKGROUND Meradia’s client, a superannuation* fund manager in Australia, needed accurate, timely and consistent data fit for their analytic requirements. Historically, the operations team generated Performance from raw custodial files. While a substantial portion of the assets are externally managed, the futures, FX and cash portfolios – representing major exposures – are managed and traded
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BACKGROUND A global asset manager had multiple vendor and proprietary trading systems to support equity and fixed income trading. The firm struggled to get a timely, accurate and holistic view of trading activity and decided to standardize by implementing a single instance of BlackRock’s Aladdin globally. Functional scope for the full Aladdin suite included trading
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