INVESTMENT-MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY BRIEFS

Insight Investment, the asset manager of Halifax and Bank of Scotland Group has introduced a front-office suite from LatentZero to service its entire operation. According to a press release, the decision to implement the solution was based on Insight's recent acquisition of Rothschild Asset Management, who had been using LatentZero's products. Over the next year, Insight will implement the suite, which includes Sentinel, a pre- and post-trade-compliance solution, Minerva, a global order-management system, and Tesseract, a decision-support and order-generation product.

Stanlib Asset and Wealth Management, a South-African investment manager, recently implemented technology from DST International to consolidate its front- and back-office operations. Stanlib, which was recently formed by the merger of SCMB Asset Management and Liberty Asset Management, will implement the solution over the next year in order to streamline client portfolios, according to a press release. The solution will consolidate two DST products: Hilnvest, the front-office system used at SCMB, and HiPortfolio/2, the back-office system used by Liberty.

Financial Models Company has released a fixed-income attribution module for FMCSylvan, its performance measurement, attribution and risk measurement system. The release follows Beta testing and adoption of the module by Delaware-based asset manager, Delaware International Advisors Ltd.