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Agents, workflows, and tokens: Orchestrating intelligence at scale

Effectively adding AI trading technology to your risk conversations requires more than just a single agent operating as your AI Assistant. An effective AI team is made up of a variety of specialized agents that work together, designed, controlled and orchestrated by their human leader to tackle the multi-step and multi-role activities that are part of real-life trading and portfolio management.

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Mar 12 2026
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Market brief | Upside/downside: The portfolio implications of an oil shock

In light of recent market volatility, the Research Desk investigates equity holdings across institutional investor portfolios to gauge exposure and upside/downside risk.

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Introducing Beacon Intelligence AI Assistant: turning risk models into live conversations

As markets speed up and uncertainties multiply, end-of-day risk reports no longer cut it. Risk management is now an ongoing dialogue throughout the day. Beacon AI agents are the first step from static analytics to interactive intelligence, adding a new voice to the risk conversation as AI grows into a holistic and collaborative approach with traders, quants, and analysts.

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Feb 19 2026
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Market brief | US insurers holler for a dollar

As global stock markets teeter near all-time highs, the Research Desk sought to investigate what this exceptional, multiyear run for equities has meant for portfolios.

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From Debate to Implementation – Solvency UK and Solvency II

The Solvency UK and Solvency II regulatory rulebooks are being updated this year with new rules which will further reduce operational efficiency for organizations not leveraging Clearwater.

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Solvency II Reforms Will Free Up Investment Cash

New rules on Solvency II will free up UK insurers cash for future investments. More here.

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The Adoption of T+1 

The SEC recently announced the adoption of a new rule shortening the settlement cycle of securities transactions to one business day (or T+1), effective May 28, 2024. Read this blog to learn more about the adoption of T + 1.

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Accounting Software for Asset Managers

In this blog, we discuss the reasons why asset managers should care about debits and credits. Get a preview of what a best-in-class accounting software solutions looks like for asset managers.

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Building trust in someone else’s computers: 4 essential elements of cloud resilience and reliability

How do you build trust that cloud computing will be reliable and resilient? By assuming that everything breaks. Mika Bostrom explores 4 essential elements of cloud-native platforms and workloads that make them highly tolerant to failure of individual components.

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Legacy System Risk in the Wake of Mass Retirement

The insurance industry is facing a talent crisis driven by mass retirement, as 50 percent of the current insurance workforce prepares to retire by 2028. Read more on legacy system risk in the wake of mass retirement here.

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Analytics without data is useless, so we make it easy to get your data into Beacon

Are you interested in our analytics and risk management capabilities, but concerned about how you would get the necessary data to and from your existing systems?Beacon’s Pawel Potocki takes you on a quick tour of how we make it easy to get your data into our platform.

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Unlocking Growth and Scalability with Alternative Assets

The key to success in alternative assets is to take a technology-first approach.

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Asset Managers: It’s a People + Technology Problem

Asset managers, I’m here to tell you: It’s not a people problem. It’s a people + technology problem.

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