BOSTON--()--Charles River, a front- and middle-office investment management solutions provider, today announced that the Charles River Investment Management Solution (IMS) was ranked a “Best-in-Class” in three-of-four categories for Trader Experience, Trading Support, and Enterprise Support in independent analyst CEB TowerGroup’s recent Execution Management Technology Analysis.
“Charles River IMS eliminates fragmented trading workflows, order staging problems, and the need for multiple systems by integrating Execution and Order Management functionality in a single OEMS trading blotter”
The CEB TowerGroup EMS analysis combined qualitative and quantitative data from interviews with industry experts, financial institutions and providers, identifying key components of technology investment decisions to compare vendor products. Charles River IMS also received four-out-of-four “Best-in-Class” ratings in CEB TowerGroup’s Order Management Technology Analysis.
“Charles River IMS eliminates fragmented trading workflows, order staging problems, and the need for multiple systems by integrating Execution and Order Management functionality in a single OEMS trading blotter,” said Tom Driscoll, Global Managing Director, Charles River. “We are pleased that an independent analyst recognizes our best-in-class execution management capabilities that integrate software, managed services, FIX connectivity and data.”
About Charles River
Charles
River provides an enterprise solution to automate the investment
management process across asset classes and streamline front- and
middle-office operations for buy-side firms. A single solution
integrates software, hosting, application management, data and FIX
connectivity to support portfolio management, performance and risk,
compliance monitoring, order and execution management, and post-trade
processing. The company has more than 350 clients in 43 countries in the
institutional asset and fund management, alternative investments, wealth
management, insurance, banking, pension and custody markets.
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