Risk systems take a back seat

Despite uncertain and volatile markets, Asia’s asset managers have yet to embrace third-party risk systems for the front office, relying instead on internally developed processes and systems. Lachlan Colquhoun reports.

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Asset managers are under unprecedented pressure. Corporate disasters such as Enron and WorldCom have boosted market volatility to levels many managers have not seen before. Meanwhile the increasingly cut-throat competition is forcing managers to slice margins in the pursuit of mandates.

This should add up to a lucrative new opportunity for risk management software vendors, but – at a front-office level – few of the big global players seem to be making inroads in Asia-Pacific. While

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