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INVESTMENT-MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY
SunGard Online Investment Systems, an operating group of SunGard, and Yodlee, a provider of personal account-aggregation services, announced a co-marketing agreement to jointly promote integrated solutions to wealth-management-service providers. Yodlee's aggregation technology, integrated with SunGard's range of analytics, asset allocation, cross-selling and wealth-management applications, works to provide a complete wealth-management portal for a financial institution's high-net-worth clientele.
Trema, a provider of strategic technology solutions and management-consulting services, announced that Finland's Local Government Pensions Institution has selected Trema Finance KIT to handle its asset-management operations. The system looks to improve transaction-processing efficiencies and allow The Local Government Pensions Institution to benefit from a wider range of financial instruments. The Local Government Pensions Institution is a statutory pensions institution responsible for the pension coverage of municipal employees in Finland.
Brainpower, provider of investment-analysis and decision-support-software tools for the investment community, announces the launch of Union Investment's new Web site (www.union-investment.de), incorporating Brainpower's mutual-fund-analysis tools. The German investment company of the cooperative banking sector is providing anyone who registers for its free online service access to investment-analysis tools. These tools, built by Brainpower, help customers determine investment strategies and identify investment opportunities.
Communicator Inc, a provider of electronic-communications products and services to Fortune 1000 companies, announced the implementation of the world's largest corporate, multi-enterprise instant-messaging service. This deployment of the Communicator Hub IM service collectively includes 30,000 professionals at eight of the world's largest financial institutions and 2,000 institutional money-management firms. Under the terms of the multi-year agreements, Credit Suisse First Boston, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Salomon Smith Barney and UBS Warburg can use the service to communicate within and across their organizations and with their customers.