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Discover how the Clearwater GR8 equity risk factor model improves portfolio risk attribution with new factors for crowding, drawdown, and payout. Built for quantamental strategies and institutional asset management.
Key Takeaways The KOSPI has risen into record territory above 4,200 in 2025, establishing Korea as one of the strongest-performing major equity markets globally South Korea reinstated short selling on March 31, 2025, following systemic regulatory reforms, opening new opportunities…
IBOR Replacement for Hedge Funds: What’s Changed, What to Evaluate, and When to Move
Can the U.S. economy skirt recession again?
Discover how the Clearwater GR8 equity risk factor model improves portfolio risk attribution with new factors for crowding, drawdown, and payout. Built for quantamental strategies and institutional asset management.
Key Takeaways The KOSPI has risen into record territory above 4,200 in 2025, establishing Korea as one of the strongest-performing major equity markets globally South Korea reinstated short selling on March 31, 2025, following systemic regulatory reforms, opening new opportunities…
IBOR Replacement for Hedge Funds: What’s Changed, What to Evaluate, and When to Move
Can the U.S. economy skirt recession again?
Key insights from the “What Does a Strong Data & AI Strategy Look Like for Hedge Funds and Asset Managers in 2026?” breakfast briefing panel discussion
InvestOps attendees described a set of problems that will sound familiar to anyone running investment operations today. Validating data across systems that should agree but don’t. Accessing historical records back to inception for transparency requests and audits. Spending hours on manual cleanup before any downstream work can begin.
Many legacy OMS platforms were built when equity-centric strategies dominated the hedge fund landscape. As strategies have evolved to include meaningful fixed income, FX, swaps, options, futures, and structured products, those platforms have struggled to keep pace.
The cost of running a multi-fund, multi-asset book of record in Excel is much more expensive than investment teams realize. If your book of record lives in a spreadsheet, your book of record lives in a single point of failure.
With the recent marriage of generative AI tools and software development, tasks that required significant manual effort are increasingly automated — enabling teams to shift their focus from repetitive implementation to higher-order design, architecture, and innovation.
Peek behind the code at CWAN Engineering. Discover how our team tackles challenges like AI orchestration, auto‑scaling, and zero‑trust.