APT Company News
August 2008
Dr. Laurence Wormald Appointed Head of Research
SunGard Advanced Portfolio Technologies (APT) announced that Dr. Laurence Wormald has been appointed as head of research for SunGard's Advanced Portfolio Technologies (APT) business unit, which develops and distributes market risk models, software tools and applications and related professional services (www.sungard.com/alternatives)
March 2008
SunGard Acquires Advanced Portfolio Technologies
SunGard (www.sungard.com/alternatives) today announced that it has acquired Advanced Portfolio Technologies, Inc. (APT), a leading global provider of risk management systems and portfolio optimization software for asset managers, hedge funds, pension funds, broker/dealers and proprietary traders.
January 2008
APT releases a new single-country equity model covering Indonesia estimated in Indonesian Rupiah (IDR), targeting the Asian markets.
December 2007
APT releases two new single-country equity models covering Malaysia estimated in Malysian Ringgit (MYR) and Singapore estimated in Singapore dollars (SGD), both targeting the Asian markets.
November 2007
Prof. John Blin, APT Chairman, to present a talk to the CFA Society of Sydney on the 21st of November 2007 entitled "The Risks You Know and the Risks You Don't - The End of the Affair?"
Location: AMP Capital, Ground Floor, 50 Bridge Street, Sydney 2000
September 2007
Meet APT and partners to discuss our risk and compliance solution and view a live demonstration of RiskComply™ at the following seminar events: Dublin 11th September, Luxembourg 20th September and Frankfurt 2nd October
August 2007
APT announces an Arabian Markets model, to support growing demand from Middle East investors, the only model to provide risk forecasts for the Arabian region, including guaranteed coverage of MSCI Arabian Markets and all GCC, Levant and North African traded equities plus a full set of explanatory factors including currencies, sectors and countries. For further details please contact your local APT Office.
July 2007
APT is pleased to announce that our new secure Client-WebSite is now live. By following the 'Login' link above clients are now able to log-in and benefit from a host of new features as outlined in our recent announcement. For further details please contact your local APT support team.
Access to this site is understandably very secure so any clients finding difficulty in logging in are requested to contact your local APT support team for assistance.
We hope that you enjoy this new development and we will continue to advance the nature of the site to our clients advantage going forward.
May 2007
APT, in collaboration with Standard & Poors and Aquin Components have launched RiskComply™, an online risk and compliance monitoring tool for the investment management industry. APT provides their stochastic multi-factor risk model and advanced component Monte Carlo methods to calculate the risk on which each compliance report is based. "RiskComply™ takes the same approach to risk measurement as that used by portfolio managers - there will no longer be a disconnect between risk/compliance reports and the portfolio construction process itself, as there has so often been before," says Jamie Ridyard, Managing Director of APT.
April 2007
John Blin, chairman of APT, will present "Optimal portfolio construction using asset allocation" to the World Funds Taiwan Conference on the July 9-11 at the Sheraton in Taipei. He will also be running a masterclass at this event titled ""Asset Allocation - All season strategy to outperform your peers".
John Blin, chairman of APT, will lead a panel discussing "Identifying and managing the risks inherent to Indian hedge funds" at the HedgeFund World India Conference on the 14th September at the Hong Kong Conference and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong.
March 2007
APT representative will be speaking on the topic of "Independent Component Analysis of Hedge Fund Returns" at the forthcoming CARISMA "Program Trading Techniques and Financial Models for Hedge Funds" seminar on 26-27th June in London.
December 2006
APT representatives to speak on the topic of "Vertical Integration in Risk Management: Processes and Trends" at the FONDSWERTE fund congress in Vienna, Austria on the 6th December.
November 2006
John Blin, chairman of APT, will be speaking at Factset Portfolio Analytics conferences in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney during November. Further information can be found on the Factset website.
September 2006
APT's London office has now moved to its new address. Please see the office locations page for the new postal address.
Singapore based insurance companies can use APT's optimizer to meet the market risk component of the Singapore Insurance Act's 2004 subsidiary legislation Total Risk Requirements. A feasibility study was performed by APT to determine which constraints set forth by this act could be represented and matched in an optimization job. Positions in equities, property, loans, and fixed income can be implemented in the APT Optimizer using simple linear constraints. For additional details of this study please contact your local APT office.
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