Legg Mason Extends MPI Tools to DCIO Platform
Planadviser covers Legg Mason’s novel customization of MPI Stylus Web for its MPI Plan Analyzer report, an initiative to support plan advisors servicing and looking to win retirement business.
Press
MPI solutions and research are frequently featured in a number of financial and investment media outlets.
Legg Mason and MPI
InvestmentNews’ technology reporter Davis Janowski writes about the novel way Legg Mason has customized MPI Stylus Web to help plan advisors better serve plan sponsors, including usage of Common Style and comparative reporting capabilities. See more about the case study on Investment News.
New Tech Improves Consultants’ Manager Eval Capabilities
In an article by FundFire, institutional consultant correspondent Billy Nauman reports on Wurts & Associates’ implementation of MPI Stylus Pro to enhance qualitative capabilities, quoting Brian Rowe, Director of Manager Research at Wurts.
Hedge fund replication strategies come of age: Rise of the clones
U.S. Editor of Hedge Funds Review Kris Devasabai highlights MPI research findings from a definitive pending study on hedge fund replication being undertaken in conjunction with NYU Professor Petter Kolm, Director of the Mathematics in Finance M.S. Program at the Courant Institute.
These Funds Were QE3’s Biggest Winners (And One Loser)
Barron’s Brendan Conway covers MPI’s research on mutual funds that gained the most during the Fed’s QE3 announcement. Learn more about MPI’s insights here.
When An Underperforming Fund Is A Good Thing
Barron’s “Focus on Funds” covers MPI’s research post, “Alpha and Excess Return: Not Synonymous”.
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Large European Family Office Signs Up To Markov’s Investment Analysis System
This story in the Family Wealth Report chronicles Marcuard Family Office’s adoption of MPI’s patented DSA and the benefits the analytics bring to their practice.
Software helps detect good and bad managers
Chris Flood from The Financial Times talks about MPI’s technology, its ability to reverse engineer hedge fund returns and applications from fund selection to managing risk and detecting potential fraud. “MPI’s software provides valuable insights into how a hedge fund delivers returns. It can help an investor understand whether a manager is adding value. If some parts of returns are left unexplained, it can be a way to raise warning flags, especially when combined with other sources of information,” he quotes a risk officer of a sovereign wealth fund.
‘Risk parity’ strategy has its critics as well as fans
MPI CEO Michael Markov discusses the rising popularity of risk parity and the predictable short term nature of risk in an article published by the Financial Times written by Sophia Grene.