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Financial & Retirement Planning
Portfolio Build, Analysis & Reporting
25th May 2023
U.S. public sector pension plan managers believe the plans they support will spend more on scenario modelling and stress testing in the next two years to help manage the increased...
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Business Strategy & Advisory
Financial Markets Research & Analysis
1st March 2023
Inflation has put the profitability of both Life and Non-Life insurers under strain. In light of the risk of sustained raised inflation, the Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA) has urged insurers...
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Compliance & Regulation
Investment Platforms & Tools
9th February 2023
Bert Kramer, Head of Research at Climate and ESG Solutions, and I attended COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh this year and observed the collective shift in tone from ambitious target-setting...
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Client Engagement & Management
Financial & Retirement Planning
23rd August 2022
OPAL’s core mission is to help people with investment decisions. Especially under recent uncertain market conditions and volatility, this has been more relevant than before. OPAL Planning and OPAL for Salesforce support this mission...
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Investment Platforms & Tools
Portfolio Build, Analysis & Reporting
11th July 2022
Many current methods of portfolio projection, even those powered by Monte Carlo simulations, are significantly limited, a problem that we discussed in a previous article. In our view, the future belongs...
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Client Engagement & Management
Financial & Retirement Planning
27th May 2022
However, as discussed in our previous article, simplistic Monte Carlo simulations have shortcomings and may generate results that do not fully account for major economic and market shock events (such as...
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Client Engagement & Management
Financial & Retirement Planning
4th May 2022
Recent market volatility, greater service level demands on an adviser’s practice and the increasing impact of “black swan” events – such as the subprime mortgage crisis and Covid-19 – on...
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20th October 2021
MiFID II requires private banks and wealth managers to demonstrate that the investment product or instrument they offer is suitable for their client. This suitability requirement also includes that the...
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Financial & Retirement Planning
29th September 2021
Join us on October 21 for the latest edition of the Economic Scenario Outlook webinar. Our in-house experts Marijn Heijmerikx and Erik Hennink will take a closer look at the potential economic consequences resulting from the...
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Client Engagement & Management
Financial & Retirement Planning
18th March 2021
Company overview
Ortec Finance is a leading provider of technology and solutions for risk and return management. It is our purpose to enable people to manage the complexity of investment decisions....
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23rd February 2021
Michelle Li joins us from FactSet where she was an analytics specialist for over 5 years and worked at HSBC prior in Structured Banking.
Stefano Lee, Managing Director Australia & New...
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Portfolio Build, Analysis & Reporting
Risk Analysis & Management
12th February 2021
A common task in the performance analysis of an investment portfolio is to convert results into an annual form. Data often comes as a set of monthly returns which must...
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14th January 2021
Russ is joining Ortec Finance from Aviva, where he was a senior manager in the Group Asset Liability Management team and was part of the cross-company climate change risk and...
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Client Engagement & Management
Digital Platforms & Tools
17th December 2020
Innovation in goal-based planning
Over the past couple of years, public awareness of Climate Change and Global Warming as a systemic risk for our society has increased. In its recent publication,...
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1st December 2020
TSAM organizes this 3 day Tech Show around several streams. Ortec Finance participates in the Performance and Risk stream. During the session Thari and Maurits will address how asset managers...
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Client Engagement & Management
Financial & Retirement Planning
18th November 2020
Innovation in goal-based planning
In our previous blog, we listed a number of innovations that Ortec Finance has worked on in the past year(s). The first and maybe the biggest one is...
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Data Management & Analysis
Financial & Retirement Planning
28th October 2020
Ortec Finance has a suite of financial technology products to help their clients with managing complex investment and financial decision-making. Statistical models and machine learning solutions play an increasingly important...
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9th September 2020
Ortec Finance presents the ESG Radar: an AI-driven solution that provides you with customized news feeds about the companies in your portfolio and the topics that have an impact on...
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Portfolio Build, Analysis & Reporting
9th July 2020
July 7 and 8 Elske van de Burgt presented Ortec Finance's methodology on how to deal with investment performance attribution in large, complex, multi-asset class, overlayed investment portfolios. Around 70...
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Financial & Retirement Planning
Investment Platforms & Tools
25th June 2020
Repainting the advice process
Earlier this year, before all travel restrictions, we visited a technology conference for financial advisors in the United States. Most of the vendor presentations were provided by...
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23rd June 2020
London, UK, June 23, 2020 – Wealth Dynamix, a global leader in Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) solutions, has announced an alliance with Ortec Finance, a leading provider of technology solutions for investment decision...
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Investment Platforms & Tools
Portfolio Build, Analysis & Reporting
12th May 2020
To fully benefit from the insights that attribution models provide, you should be aware of and understand the limitations of those models. Especially for rebalancing decisions outside the regular rebalancing...
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29th April 2020
AMSTERDAM, April 29th, 2020 - Today, core banking platform Ohpen and technology and solution provider Ortec Finance announce a partnership to bring much-needed innovation to pensions solutions available in the...
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Financial & Retirement Planning
Investment Platforms & Tools
8th April 2020
Am I OK? Can I still achieve the financial goals that I planned a while ago? Should I withdraw from a possible bear market? Nowadays, financial advisors, investment counselors and...
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Investment Platforms & Tools
Portfolio Build, Analysis & Reporting
20th March 2020
The world is fighting a pandemic, the outbreak of COVID-19. The impact on our health, social lives, the global economy and financial markets is immense and at times almost surreal....
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Financial & Retirement Planning
Investment Platforms & Tools
18th March 2020
The last couple of weeks have been extremely impactful as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak in all aspects. Not only are several countries taking unprecedented measures to contain the...
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19th November 2019
The conference gathers the entire Salesforce community in one place, by bringing together thought leaders, industry pioneers and thousands of peers for four high-energy days of learning and inspiration.
Iwan Schafthuizen,...
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Financial & Retirement Planning
10th October 2019
Most financial advisors understand and realize the importance of a financial plan. The quality of a financial plan largely depends on the methodology used for the underlying assumptions. Still, even...
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Digital (Robo) Investing
20th June 2019
According to the Capgemini ‘World Wealth report 2018’, 90% of global banks mark hybrid advice as important, while at least 50% even consider this trend to be of ‘high importance’....
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Financial & Retirement Planning
20th May 2019
The process of goal-based planning
In the goal-based planning process, you start with assessing the goals that a client wants to achieve. Then you find a solution that can help achieve...