This white paper details five actual business rule management systems deployments, providing a before and after view for each credit and lending application. 

This paper explains the state of the current economy from retail perspective, changing consumer's spending patterns, retailers reactions, and areas retailers need to concentrate in the short term future. 

Total hedge fund assets recently hit $2.5 trillion, driven by buoyant manager performance and surging capital inflows, while the number of hedge funds soared to almost 10,000. This paper focuses on the growth of the offshore segment within the wider expansion of the hedge fund industry and assesses the advantages of adding an offshore capability. 

The investors who comprise the emerging affluent segment of the market are very diverse—in terms of their net worth, risk tolerance, financial goals, and a myriad of other characteristics. Because of this diversity, in order for firms and advisors to effectively service this market they must perform some level of segmentation. 

In investment reporting, customers expect detailed reports of irreproachable accuracy, delivered with no delay or excuses. Systems that offer advisors the functionality they seek are often not affordable when considering the time and expertise required to properly manage a reporting system in-house. The answer, prospectively, lies in outsourcing. 

Advent Portfolio Exchange represents Advent's next generation in portfolio management technology. Advent Portfolio Exchange is the first solution to combine the front office CRM functions of client servicing and marketing with the back office operations of portfolio accounting and reporting into a single platform. View the product demonstration.