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Passion for results fuels 50 Below. Healthy client-advisor relationships, improved client prospecting, enhanced brand identity-these are results. With these core results-driven ideas in mind, 50 Below designs and manages the leading Advisor Website programs.
50 Below designs, develops, maintains and constantly upgrades large-scale web applications for corporate enterprises with large networks of agents or advisors. As a veteran in multiple industries, 50 Below hosts over 100,000 websites, advisor locators and other proprietary web tools. Beyond the software, 50 Below excels at one-to-one ongoing web marketing training for advisors and agents participating in our programs. On-call specialists are available via phone, fax and email, and an elite team of professionals travel extensively, conducting regional and national training seminars with our customers across North America.
Contact: Charlie Van Derven, Director of Business Development, 50 Below Inc., 5 West First Street, Suite 302, Duluth, MN 55802 . . . 866.414.5295 . . . charlie.vanderven@50below.com . . . www.50below.com
ACT Litigation teams with legal professionals to provide end-to-end litigation discovery services—from collection through production, including document review—to major corporations and law firms in the financial, securities and other industries. ACT was founded by engineers to provide value for lawyers and other professionals struggling with complex discovery matters. Since 1988, the company has combined the discipline of engineering, expertise in legal, technology and process and application of strategic technologies such as Intelligent Filtering and Review to ensure that client objectives are met for each project. ACT has helped its clients with some of the most challenging discovery projects in history by designing and integrating workflows and technology in a seamless manner—resulting in a near 100% retention rate of both clients and employees. ACT takes a process-oriented approach to every project, deploying controls and standards, automation and a diverse team of professionals to improve quality and efficiency while reducing all-in cost.
Contact: Craig Lee, Director of Sales, ACT Litigation Services, 27200 Tourney Road, Suite 450, Valencia, CA 91355 . . . 661.284.6401 ext.222 . . . craiglee@actlit.com . . . www.actlit.com
Helping our clients get sustainable, measurable results. BearingPoint is a leading management and technology consulting company serving the Forbes Global 2000 and many of the world's largest public services organizations. Our more than 17,000 passionate, experienced consultants help organizations around the world solve their most pressing challenges, day in and day out. Through our collaborative and flexible approach, we help our clients get practical, sustainable, measurable results, make the right strategic decisions and implement the right solutions. We are BearingPoint, management and technology consultants.
To learn more, contact us at 866.BRNGPNT (508.216.2523 from outside the United States and Canada), or visit our Web site at www.bearingpoint.com.
Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC is a leading international market maker. The firm has been providing quality executions for broker-dealers, banks, and financial institutions since its inception in 1960. During this time, Madoff has compiled an uninterrupted record of growth, which has enabled us to continually build our financial resources. With more than $600 million in firm capital, Madoff currently ranks among the top 1% of US Securities firms. Our sophisticated proprietary automation and unparalleled customer service delivers an enhanced execution that is virtually unmatched in our industry. Madoff Securities' customers include scores of leading securities firms, banks, and financial institutions from across the United States and around the world. The firm is a leading market maker in all of the S&P 500 stocks as well as over 300 NASDAQ issues. Madoff Securities is known for its fine pricing as well as its ability to execute most orders in seconds.
Contact: Larry Birch, Director of Sales and Marketing, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, 885 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022 . . . 212.230.2422 . . . lbirch@madoff.com . . . www.madoff.com
With offices in New York and Toronto, BPS provides enterprise-strength governance, risk and compliance (GRC) software solutions that deliver measurable value to clients across North America and around the world. The company's flagship solution, BPS PlatformT, is a flexible, scalable system for managing compliance, internal audit and operational risk across the organization. The software helps harmonize the planning and execution of compliance-related activities providing greater accountability, improved operational performance and increased clarity thus reducing operational costs of risk management best practices. BPS also offers solutions to facilitate the management of: issues and action tracking, workpaper management and risk control self assessments (RCSA) to name a few. Visit www.bpsinc.com to learn more.
Contact: Shaun Jackson, Vice President, Marketing, BPS, 703 Evans Avenue, Suite 107, Toronto, ON, M9C 5E9 Canada . . . 416.622.2299 ext. 417 . . . shaun.jackson@bpsinc.com . . . www.bpsinc.com
Broadridge is a leading outsourcing provider to the financial industry, offering the most comprehensive range of fully-integrated solutions to banks and broker/dealers globally. Our operations expertise, management experience, and scale help clients streamline operations, lower costs, enhance operations, increase productivity, and mitigate risk. Our solutions encompass front-to-end back-office support including global securities processing, investor communications, and fully-compliant document management and archival.
Contact: Tony DeMeo, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (formerly ADP Brokerage Services Group), One Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016 . . . 888.237.1900 . . . info@broadridge.com . . . www.broadridge.com
Founded in 1997, Calypso today is a leading provider of multi-asset software solutions for the capital markets industry. The company provides a comprehensive trading, risk and processing system to financial services firms on the buy- and sell-sides. Key clients include Bear Stearns, Citigroup, HSBC Holdings, Wachovia and Wells Fargo. The Calypso application is the only software system built from inception as an integrated product addressing all asset classes and front-to-back-office functions. Calypso users can build multi-asset hybrid products, monitor risk, and reduce costs by rationalizing processing across asset classes. Clients gain efficiencies through automation and economies of scale. The system is modular, developed in Java, and well-suited for today's component-based infrastructure environments. It is a real-time application designed with flexibility to meet the needs of flow and structured product businesses today and in the future.
Contact: Calypso Technology, 595 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94105 . . . 415.817.2400 . . . info@calypso.com . . . www.calypso.com
Capco is the global provider of integrated transformation services to the Financial Services Industry. With offices in North America, Europe and Asia, Capco provides integrated Consulting, Technology and Managed Services activities. Capco combines its exclusive focus on financial services with a Global Delivery Model. Our Service Offerings are engineered by financial services experts exclusively for the Financial Services Industry. As pioneers of transforming operational capability and efficiency, we help clients successfully increase revenue, reduce costs and enhance control. We merge innovative thinking with an unrivaled knowledge of our industry. For more information, please visit www.capco.com.
Contact: Joe Anastasio, Chief Client Partner-North America, Capco, 120 Broadway, 29 th FL, New York, NY 10271 . . . 212.284.8600 . . . joe.anastasio@capco.com . . . www.capco.com
CapitalRock provides customer relationship analytic tools designed to assist financial service representatives in determining and communicating relevant sales opportunities to their clients. With the use of a powerful rules engine and robust analytics, the RightBridge Suite provides real-time cross-selling and up-selling suggestions based on client information and the context of the interaction. RightBridge turns your customer data in to revenue by Identifying Needs based "Actionable" suggestions for the advisor; Calculating a "Relevance" factor and presenting the most appropriate suggestions for the advisor to communicate to their clients; Justifying the suggestions by providing detail audit text to assist the advisor in explaining why a suggestion is relevant to the client; Measuring the results of each suggestion provides the means to follow up and track the successful use of the RightBridge system.
Contact: Chad Gardner, Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing, CapitalRock, 320 West 500 South, Suite 240, Bountiful, Utah 84010 . . . 801.390.6650 . . . cgardner@capitalrock.com . . . www.capitalrock.com
Comprehensive Software Systems, Inc. (CSS) provides innovative financial services software to the securities industry. CSS's front- to back-office system works either as an enterprise solution or as stand-alone components that can seamlessly integrate into your existing systems. CSS's flagship product, Q Securities Processing Software, includes a variety of products designed to increase efficiency, decrease costs, and gain competitive advantage, including .NET-based CRM with integrated portfolio management tools; OMS and Mutual Fund processing that includes real-time pre-trade breakpoint calculations; and unparalleled clearance, settlement, and reporting capabilities. All products utilize a tightly integrated compliance system to protect your business. And Q Securities Processing Software stores all of your firm's data in a single repository, which provides real-time access to that data across your firm. The combined strength of the Q database, your data, and Microsoft® SQL ServerT 2000 Reporting Services allows you to turn your firm's data into business intelligence.
Contact: Faye Woodley, Comprehensive Software Systems, Inc, 25178 Genesee Trail Road, Golden, CO 80401 . . . 866.733.7277 . . . sales@csssoftware.com . . . www.csssoftware.com
For more than 50 years, the professionals in Deloitte & Touche USA LLP's securities industry practice have assisted clients in charting and creating business opportunities. We provide a spectrum of audit, consulting, finance, tax and risk services to clients in every sector of the securities industry: full service, broker-dealers, retail and online brokerage companies, national and regional boutique firms, investment banks, and electronic communications networks and exchanges. When you choose Deloitte, our experience with the leading industry players works to your benefit as our relationship evolves. Our professionals are respected for having a deep and holistic knowledge of the industry and how securities firms operate. We tailor our service teams and plans to meet the specialized needs of our clients and provide an unsurpassed breadth of services, including those that help you with regulatory matters, operational efficiency, customer relations and effective risk management.
Contact: Jim Reichbach, Vice Chairman, Banking & Securities, Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, Two World Financial Center, New York, NY 10281 . . . 212.436.5730 . . . jreichbach@deloitte.com . . . www.deloitte.com
Dow Jones serves the diverse information needs of financial professionals and their firms by organizing news, information and tools into job-specific solutions. This ensures that securities firms are getting targeted information and applications critical to executing on their wealth management, institutional and digital strategies. We look forward to talking with you in Boca about how Dow Jones can help advance the goals of your business, whether they’re deepening client relationships, creating market opportunities or enhancing your clients’ reliance on you and trust in your services.
Contact: Steve Reiser, Executive Director, Dow Jones Financial Services Solutions Marketing, Harborside Financial Center, 800 Plaza Two - 8th Floor, Jersey City, NJ 07311 . . . 201.938.5951 . . . steve.reiser@dowjones.com . . . www.djnewswires.com
Through the new DST TASS, investment firms can take advantage of our vast experience in the TA and brokerage industries to better manage regulatory compliance, improve operational efficiency and maintain control of their businesses. We customize our services to a firm’s unique needs in managing fund sales and oversight. With DST's flexible platform, investment firms choose the service model that best fits their business needs—full service outsourcing, remote service or a hybrid shared solution. Services include data management, recordkeeping solutions, compliance tools and consulting on every aspect of the subaccounting relationship. And our optimal advisor servicing model gives the investment firm a comprehensive view from their advisors’ book-of-businesses to a totally integrated recordkeeping platform. DST TASS combines the advanced recordkeeping technology of DST’s TA2000 Subaccounting ™ system and the industry-leading account servicing capabilities of TASS, LLC—providing a full range of service outsourcing solutions for the mutual fund distribution community.
Contact: Mike Duffy, Partner, DST TASS, 1075 Baker Building, 706 2nd Ave. S, Minneapolis, MN 55402 . . . 866.827.7558 . . . mike.duffy@tassllc.com . . . www.dstsystems.com
eFinancialCareers, a Dice company, is the leading global career site network for investment banking, asset management and securities professionals. The site provides capital markets professionals with a comprehensive online database of jobs, career resources and industry news, all designed to enhance their careers. Recruiters and employers can post jobs targeting specific sectors within the financial markets, both buy-side and sell-side, and search the resume database for highly qualified and specialized capital markets professionals. eFinancialCareers has a network of partner and global sites that increases the reach of job listings, including InstitutionalInvestor.com, The Deal, MARHedge and Wall Street & Technology. eFinancialCareers is a winner of 2006 Weddle’s User Choice Award and a member of Nicheboards.com. Contact us at 212-370-8502 or www.eFinancialCareers.com .
Contact: Maria Slabaugh, Marketing Manager, 3 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016 . . . 212.370.8502 . . . us-sales@efinancialcareers.com . . . www.eFinancialCareers.com
Since it's founding in 1955, Federated Investors, Inc. (NYSE: FII) has grown to become one of the nation's largest investment management organizations with assets under management reaching approximately $265 billion. With more than 190 different domestic and international equity, fixed-income and money market investment products. Federated delivers a diversified product line-up to financial intermediaries to help you reach a variety of investment goals for your clients. Product performance, breadth and innovation, combined with one of the largest wholesaling sales forces in the industry, have enabled Federated to achieve substantial asset growth over its 50-year history. Federated is committed to honing its diversified line-up to offer investments with consistent, competitive performance for every economic cycle.
Contact: Richard W. Boyd, Senior Vice President, Federated Investors, 1001 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222-3779 . . . 412.288.1594 . . . rboyd@federatedinv.com . . . www.federatedinvestors.com
Leveraging more than 10 years of experience, Fidelity ActionsXchange is the trusted provider of global corporate action processing solutions for many of the world's financial industry leaders. Developed by Fidelity Investments, ActionsXchange offers a new model for managing and acting on corporate action information that significantly reduces risk, broadens coverage and improves accuracy. Our innovative solutions leverage multiple best-of-breed commercial data feeds and other direct data sources, along with rigorous analysis and support, to turn even the most complex data into intelligence our clients can use to make confident business decisions. No other vendor provides the comprehensive information coverage or processing solutions of ActionsXchange. Visit our Web site at www.actionsxchange.com or contact us at 877.777.5838.
Contact: Chris Madigan, Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing, Fidelity ActionsXchange, 82 Devonshire Street, G4B, Boston, MA 02109 . . . 617.563.5360 . . . chris.madigan@fmr.com . . . www.actionsxchange.com
Unlimited potential. Clear thinking. The single most compelling business challenge today is no longer how to squeeze more from less. It’s how to profitably grow your business while maintaining a competitive market position. In an inherently complex industry, we are striving to add clarity and innovation built on an unmatched knowledge of the retail investment business. In fact, helping you find ways to better run, grow and protect your business is as much a part of our culture as precise transaction processing and proactive service. Our core competencies can help identify new operating efficiencies while our value-added services can help you remain competitive in the marketplace. Contact us to learn more about how we can provide clear thinking for your business.
Contact: David Williams, Managing Director, First Clearing Correspondent Services, Riverfront Plaza, 901 East Byrd Street, Richmond, VA 23219 . . . 888.FCC.CLEAR . . . david.l.williams@firstclearing.com . . . www.firstclearing.com
IBM is the preeminent technology and services partner in the global financial markets and banking industries with more than 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. IBM combines industry acumen with technology expertise to create unique insights that enable our clients to transform their business and gain competitive advantage. By leveraging world-class research capabilities, an unmatched network of global and local partners, and flexible and variable financing models, IBM offers software, hardware and services to satisfy the most sophisticated demands of global financial markets today. For more information, visit www.ibm.com/financialmarkets or contact your local IBM sales representative.
Contact: Jim Brill, Global Financial Markets, IBM Corporation, 3E-07, 294 Route 100, Somers, NY 10589 . . . 914.766.2972 . . . jbrill@us.ibm.com . . . ibm.com/financialmarkets
Leading financial institutions worldwide rely on ILOG’s Business Rule Management System (BRMS) and Optimization software to automate and add decisioning capabilities for dramatic gains throughout the trading cycle—from pre-trade to trade to post-trade. ILOG software is widely used by investment banks, asset management and mutual fund firms for portfolio management and optimization, risk management, automated trading, portfolio accounting, trade crossing and regulatory compliance. With ILOG software, financial institutions are handling more trades faster. Optimizing and rebalancing portfolios. Providing expert planning and advisory services for high-wealth and mass-affluent clients. Detecting violations before they occur and maximizing trade cross, resulting in millions of dollars of savings annually. ILOG software delivers advanced rule management and optimization capabilities that empower both business and IT users. What’s more, ILOG partners with IBM, Microsoft, BEA, Accenture, EMC Documentum and others for integrated platform/technology solutions. Learn more today at ILOG.com.
Contact: Bruno Trimouille, Director, Field Marketing, Americas, ILOG, Inc., 1195 Fremont Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94087 . . . btrimouille@ilog.com . . . www.ILOG.com
Knight Capital Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NITE) is a leading financial services firm that provides voice and electronic access to the capital markets across multiple asset classes for buy-side, sell-side and corporate clients, and asset management for institutions and private clients. Our Global Markets business offers superior execution quality through natural liquidity, capital facilitation and trading technology, with comprehensive products and services that support the capital formation process. Our Asset Management business, Deephaven Capital Management, is a global multi-strategy alternative investment manager focused on delivering attractive risk-adjusted returns with low correlation to the broader markets." ...www.knight.com
KPMG LLP, the audit, tax and advisory firm (www.us.kpmg.com) is the U.S. member of KPMG International. KPMG International's member firms have 113,000 professionals, including 6,800 partners in 148 countries.
Contact: Marina Paulus, Senior Associate, KPMG LLP, Events & Meeting Services . . . 201.307.8677 . . . www.us.kpmg.com
NASDAQ® is the largest U.S. electronic stock market, offering market participants a competitive electronic market structure designed to provide a fair, fast, efficient and low-cost marketplace for companies and investors. With approximately 3,100 companies, NASDAQ lists more companies and, on average, trades more shares per day than any other U.S. market. It is home to companies that are leaders across all areas of business. Since its debut in 1971 as the world's first electronic stock market, NASDAQ has been at the forefront of innovation, using technology to bring millions of investors together with the world's leading companies. NASDAQ excels at providing innovative data products and services at competitive prices that offer traders more profit potential through superior speed and unsurpassed market transparency. For more information about NASDAQ and its innovative data products, visit www.NASDAQTrader.com
Contact: Randall Hopkins, Vice President, Market Data Distribution, The NASDAQ Stock Market . . . 301.978.5256 . . . www.NASDAQTrader.com
National Financial, a Fidelity Investments company, offers Integrated Brokerage Solutions® to nearly 340 clients ranging from retail broker/dealers to institutional investment firms. Collectively, National Financial's clients have more than 86,000 brokers. As of September 30, 2007, National Financial custodied over $713 billion in assets representing more than 5.5 million customer accounts. Integrated Brokerage Solutions incorporates innovative technology, products and programs, supported by dedicated client service professionals and trusted industry partners. This holistic, solutions-oriented approach is designed to help client firms attain competitive advantage by driving growth, creating efficiency and managing risk. For more information about National Financial and Integrated Brokerage Solutions, please visit www.nationalfinancial.com.
Contact: George Keith, Executive Vice President, Sales, National Financial, a Fidelity Investments company, 200 Liberty Square, Tower A, New York, NY 10281 . . . 212.335.5953 . . . George.Keith@fmr.com . . . www.nationalfinancial.com
NewRiver ®, partners in Electronic Compliance and Intelligent Document Fulfillment for the Financial Services IndustrySM since 1995, services over 100 leading financial services firms. NewRiver’s innovative technology solutions help clients to improve sales productivity and meet industry compliance requirements. As a result, firms can improve sales and service, cut operating costs, boost employee productivity, and enhance customer relations with compliance peace of mind. By providing a comprehensive, single-source, daily EDGAR data feed, NewRiver has become a trusted partner of many top-tier financial services firms. As a turnkey technology provider, NewRiver minimizes the strain on internal IT resources and has investor communications savvy in all media, including offset print, digital print on demand, and e-delivery.
Contact: Jeff Levering, Vice President of Product Development, NewRiver, Inc., 200 Brickstone Square, 5 th Floor, Andover, MA 01810 . . . 978.247.7200 . . . www.newriver.com
NICE Systems is the leading provider of Insight from InteractionsT solutions and value-added services. Using advanced analysis of multimedia content over telephony, web, radio, and video, NICE's solutions improve the business processes of the enterprise allowing organizations to operate in an insightful and proactive manner, and take immediate action to improve performance and process. The NICE Perform Compliance Suite offers an innovative, mission-critical solution for banks, trading floors, insurance companies and other financial enterprises that are exposed to risk as a part of their financial activities and need to comply with different regulations. Today's financial markets are becoming more and more regulated, leading to an increased demand for advanced auditing and control tools that improve transparency and assure compliance with a variety of regulations. The NICE Perform Compliance Suite solution meets these market challenges by harnessing the power of interaction analytics to an advanced compliance workflow, providing new solutions for regulatory compliance and corporate governance.
Contact: www.nice.com
Shadow-Planner is an award-winning software suite which is revolutionizing the way that companies control and manage risk. By providing innovative tools, Shadow-Planner streamlines BC / DR plan development and maintenance to make it quicker, more efficient and cost effective. The solution is exploited extensively across Europe but has not been previously available to US companies. This is now changed with Office Shadow’s first US office in NYC. The comprehensive suite of modules addresses the full scope of Business Continuity Management and includes: Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Risk Management, Incident Management and Compliance Scorecard. Shadow-Planner is browser-based and can be implemented either as a managed or self-hosted solution.
Contact: Roland Johnson, Vice President, Office Shadow, 48 Wall Street, Suite 1100, New York, NY 10005 . . . 646.442.0480 . . . roland.johnson@office-shadow.com or Paul Grigg, Senior Account Executive, Office Shadow . . . 646.442.0480 . . . paul.grigg@office-shadow.com . . . www.office-shadow.com
As a global joint venture of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and Thomson Financial, Omgeo combines the strengths and resources of two industry leaders who have set standards and pioneered the best trade processing practices in use today. With an established community of 6000 users in 42 countries worldwide, Omgeo provides automated solutions that improve the speed and efficiency of the post-trade process. Our expertise enables investment managers, broker/dealers and custodian banks to simplify their operations with advanced technologies that accelerate post-trade, pre-settlement transaction processing, increasing operational efficiency, reducing costs and minimizing risk. Omgeo is committed to working with our clients to address their unique business needs, creating tailored solutions that develop as their business evolves. As a conduit for investment managers, broker/dealers and custodian banks to communicate more effectively, our solutions deliver quantifiable benefits including fewer errors and failures, minimized delays, lower costs, reduced administration and greater client satisfaction.
Contact: Keith Walsh, Director of Sales, Americas, Omgeo LLC . . . 617.856.5283 . . . keith.walsh@omgeo.com . . . www.omgeo.com
PAETEC Communications Inc. is an Integrated Communications Provider offering financial services organizations solutions for trader voice, data needs, carrier services, conferencing services, enterprise inventory and infrastructure management, cost management and network security. PAETEC Communications Financial Services (PCFS) offers: Private line ring down services ARD/MRD TDM and IP; Trader Voice: TRADETEC (IP & TDM Plus Hybrids) MPLS IP Ringdowns with built in disaster recovery via three legged circuits to multiple locations; Automatic Ringdown; Manual Ringdown; Hoot ‘n Holler; Mitel IP Turret; Local & Long Distance; Toll & International; MPLS Securetec; E-mail scanning. PAETEC Communications, Inc. is already providing these services to financial firms and is an affinity program partner with the SIFMA offering attractive rates as a membership benefit. Benefits to members include: Cost Reduction; Risk Abatement and Diversity in the network; IP Technology and Gateways Plus Hybrid Solutions; Business Continuity and Scripted Disaster Recovery.
Contact: www.paetec.com
Pershing LLC is a leading global provider of business solutions to more than 1,150 institutional and retail financial organizations and independent registered investment advisors who collectively represent over five million active investors. Financial organizations, investment professionals, and independent registered investment advisors depend on Pershing’s depth of experience and consultative approach to provide them with forward-thinking solutions that help them to grow their businesses. Located in 19 offices worldwide, Pershing is committed to service excellence and to providing dependable operational support, robust trading services, flexible technology, an expansive array of investment solutions, and practice management programs. Pershing (member NASD/NYSE/SIPC) is a member of every major U.S. securities exchange and its international affiliates are members of the Deutsche Borse, the Irish Stock Exchange, and the London Stock Exchange. Pershing LLC is a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. Additional information is available at pershing.com.
Contact: Jim Crowley, Managing Director, Pershing LLC, One Pershing Plaza, Jersey City, NJ 07399 . . . 201.413.2564 . . . jcrowley@pershing.com . . . www.pershing.com
PFPC is a leading provider of processing, technology and business solutions to the global investment industry, supporting services for $2.4 trillion in total assets and over 69 million shareholder accounts*. Our in-depth knowledge and expertise in fund and broker servicing delivers integrated solutions to meet the needs of asset managers and broker/dealers. PFPC’s open approach and wide-ranging services offer solutions for fund accounting and administration, transfer agency, custody and securities lending, managed accounts, integrated banking transaction services, advanced output solutions, subaccounting, direct at fund services, alternative investments, and health savings accounts. PFPC is also the sole owner of AdvisorCentral ® , the Internet portal that helps financial advisors streamline daily client service while enabling broker/dealers and fund companies to maximize distribution opportunities. With services that encompass all aspects of building and sustaining your business, PFPC’s solutions provide unsurpassed value and better enable you to focus on managing money and growing assets.
* Statistics as of 6/30/2007.
Contact: William J. Salus, Executive Vice President, PFPC Inc., 301 Bellevue Parkway, Wilmington, DE 19809 . . . 302.791.2000 . . . information@pfpc.com . . . www.pfpc.com
Pivotal CRM for Financial Services offers comprehensive, integrated, industry-specific capabilities that increase insight into operational performance, streamline processes across the value chain, and improve responsiveness to client demands. With discrete CRM offerings for institutional asset management, mutual fund wholesaling, capital markets, private banking/wealth management, and commercial banking, Pivotal CRM for Financial Services puts critical relationships at the core of organizational strategy in a way that fits the unique business processes of financial services firms.
Contact: Greg Maroulas, Pivotal CRM, 600-858 Beatty Street, Vancouver, BC, V6B 1C1, Canada . . . 604.699.8000 . . . gmaroulas@cdcsoftware.com . . . www.pivotal.com/financialservices
PriceMetrix Inc. delivers innovative, ROI-driven solutions designed for retail brokerage and wealth advisory businesses. PriceMetrix is exclusively focused on assisting investment firms improve their productivity and increase revenues by helping individual financial advisors to become better CEOs of their business. The PriceMetrix Productivity Program is based on a patented process benefiting from seven years of use and adoption by managers, financial advisors, and sales assistants. The program is a high tech / high touch combination of Dashboard Reports (market and business intelligence), tactical user Tools (online calculators, case studies, etc.), Service (training and support staff, "practice management on demand"), and Campaigns (solidify and extend success) that enable investment professionals and management to proactively identify and close opportunities that enhance value and generate revenue. PriceMetrix customers have experienced improvements in assets per FA, revenue per FA, and household quality; and have also expanded their fee-based business, while realizing enhanced pricing across all product lines.
Contact: Stephen Dakis, Director, Sales, PriceMetrix Inc., 40 University Avenue, Suite 200, Toronto, ON, M5J 1T1, Canada . . . 416.955.0514 ext. 271 . . . stephen.dakis@pricemetrix.com . . . www.pricemetrix.com
Quantrix Modeler is business modeling & analytics (BMA) software that represents a significant improvement over two-dimensional modeling tools and spreadsheets. It's designed for all of an organization's multi-dimensional modeling & analytics needs - from planning, forecasting and budgeting to risk modeling, data modeling, and much more. Top securities and financial markets firms trust Quantrix for: Real Estate; Portfolio Modeling; Mortgage Loan Risk Modeling (Quantrix LoanDynamics Interface); Cross Company/Sector Analytics; Capital Investment Payback Modeling; Investment Capital Budgeting; Business Valuations; Bond Pricing; Options Pricing; Much More. Our quality process, the Quantrix Modeling Methodology, helps mitigate the risks inherent in complex business models. Quantrix is a user-friendly, proven solution that implements and integrates quickly to deliver unprecedented return on investment. Find out for yourself why companies like Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, and others in over 40 countries use Quantrix.
Contact: Kevin Lynch, Vice President of Sales, Quantrix, 428 Fore Street, Portland, ME 04101 . . . 914.645.6134 . . . klynch@quantrix.com . . . www.Quantrix.com
QUODD Financial Information Services provides a "thin" web browser Market Data Desktop poised to revolutionize the integration, delivery and use of live data. The company's solution, QUODD Equity+, is built on an open-systems platform which allows an enterprise complete flexibility in content selection as well as customized delivery—with personalization down to the seat level. Furthermore, because QUODD's Platform seamlessly integrates all third party market data within a company's own internal systems/databases, and the entire solution is centrally-managed, it eliminates the need for company resources, thus significantly decreasing the data management costs across an enterprise. QUODD's product offerings are based on an open-ended architecture which is content-agnostic (supports an unlimited flow of content)—enabling the fully customizable, highly functional delivery of live data.
Contact: Dennis Morgan, Executive Vice President, Sales & Account Management, QUODD Financial Information Services, 30 Montgomery Street, Suite 600, Jersey City, NJ 07302 . . . 201.427.9052 . . . dennis.morgan@quodd.com . . . www.quodd.com
Reuters is a global information company providing indispensable information tailored for professionals in the financial services, media and corporate markets. Our information is trusted and drives decision making across the globe. We have a reputation for speed, accuracy and freedom from bias. Although we are best known as the world's largest international multimedia news agency, more than 90% of our revenue derives from our financial services business. Some 370,000 financial market professionals working in the equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, money, commodities and energy markets around the world use Reuters products. They rely on Reuters services to provide them with the information and tools they need to help them be more productive.
Contact: Sales Enquires, Products & Services, Reuters, 3 Times Square, New York, NY 10036 . . . 646.223.4000 . . . www.reuters.com/salesenquiry . . . www.reuters.com/productinfo
Success Metrics’ Revenue Generating Applications TM drive dramatic increases in revenue and assets for brokerage firms by enabling individual executives, managers and advisors to take those specific actions that will most improve their performance. Last year, firms using Success Metrics saw 7% more production growth in those parts of their organizations using our solution than the rest of the firm. Success Metrics fueled this growth by enabling executives to align resources behind the firm’s greatest opportunities and monitor the organization’s performance and progress, enabling branch managers to better coach advisors and enabling advisors to better manage and expand individual client relationships. In addition, Success Metrics empowered the home office by identifying the greatest opportunities for each advisor, branch and product, enabling headquarters to focus their valuable marketing, management and support resources where they would deliver the greatest return – enabling them to engage the field in a more focused and productive way.
Contact: Paul Staelin, Vice President, Success Metrics, Inc., 251 Kearny Street, Suite 801, San Francisco, CA 94108 . . . 415.644.5730 . . . pstaelin@SuccessMetricsInc.com . . . www.SuccessMetricsInc.com
With annual revenue exceeding $4 billion, SunGard is a global leader in software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also helps information-dependent enterprises of all types to ensure the continuity of their business. SunGard serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 50 countries, including the world's 50 largest financial services companies.
Contact: Dorothy Friedman, Director, Product Marketing, SunGard, 55 Broadway, 2nd FL, New York, NY 10006 . . . 212.863.4021 . . . www.sungard.com
Swingvote is a full service outsource provider of shareholder communications services for banks, brokerage firms and institutional investors. Our services include: Proxy Delivery and Voting; Corporate Actions Notification and Fulfillment; Prospectus Delivery; and eSolicitation, Swingvote's patented technology. We've combined innovative technology and world class partners to give voters better tools; intermediaries enhanced controls; and companies improved communication with their shareholders. Our electronic delivery platform not only integrates educational content with intuitive tools to empower the retail voter but also provides operations professionals with a toolset to monitor every function in the distribution and voting process. eSolicitation provides Issuers and Solicitors a revolutionary new method to communicate with their street name shareholders. Our patented multi-media technology allows issuers to speak to their shareholders at the moment of decision by embedding a targeted message into the electronic ballot at the proposal level.
Contact: Pat Chappell, Senior Vice President, Strategic Relationships, 950 E. Paces Ferry Road, Suite 2175, Atlanta, GA 30326 . . . 404.812.0700 . . . pat.chappell@swingvote.com . . . www.swingvote.com
Telecommunications: Software/ Support / Consulting Founded in the wake of September 11, 2001, TeleContinuity, Inc. is focused on providing “survivable” backup telecommunications to government agencies and business customers worldwide. Positioned as “life insurance for your telecommunications system,” TeleContinuity restores incoming telephone service to users within minutes of any telecommunication outage; natural disaster, earthquake, PBX failure, fiber cut, fire, flood, building evacuation, terror attack or other catastrophic event. TeleContinuity’s unique patent-pending technology will deliver incoming telephone calls to all subscribers at their existing telephone extensions—over any device, at any location and over any network—though no service disruption had occurred. TeleContinuity has synthesized the best design elements of PSTN, Internet, and dynamic call center technologies to create a seamless, ubiquitous, and fully resilient outsourced services solution. There is no equipment to buy. We do not touch the customer’s PBX. There's no premise equipment or integration, and a customer doesn't need to change their carrier relationship.
Contact: Michael Rosenberg, Executive Vice President, 9700 Great Seneca Highway, Rockville, MD 20850 . . . 240.453.6232 . . . mrosenberg@telecontinuity.com . . . Elissa Weisblatt, Director Internal Administration . . . 240-453-6232 . . . eweisblatt@telecontinuity.com . . . www.telecontinuity.com
Thomson Transaction Services (TTS) provides comprehensive, real-time, securities processing solutions. The TTS is an industry leader providing integrated front-to-back-office solutions. With over 35 years of experience providing technology and information solutions with superior functionality to the securities industry, TTS delivers a straight-through-processing platform to help you grow your business. Whether you run a Institutional, Fixed Income, or Retail business, we invite you to meet with a TTS representative to find out why firms select Thomson Transaction Services as their strategic business partner.
Contact: Thomas D'Amato, Senior Vice President, Manager of Sales and Marketing, Thomson Transaction Services, 350 North Sunny Slope Road, Brookfield, WI 53005-6211 . . . 800.238.2797 . . . thomas.d'amato@thomson.com . . . www.thomsonfinancial.com/tts.
Founded in 1889, The Wall Street Journal, the flagship publication of Dow Jones & Company, is the world's leading business publication. The Journal reaches the nation's top business and political leaders, as well as investors across the country. Holding 33 Pulitzer Prizes for outstanding journalism, the Journal seeks to help its readers succeed by providing essential and relevant information, presented fairly and accurately, from a dependable and trusted source.
Contact: Sean Lough, Sales Development Director, Automotive & Aviation, The Wall Street Journal . . . 1155 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036 . . . 212.597.5961 . . . sean.lough@dowjones.com . . . advertising.wsj.com
An internationally recognized clearing leader for over 35 years, Wedbush Morgan Securities provides custom solutions to accelerate your success. We provide clearing and prime brokerage services for retail broker dealers, black box trading firms, investment banks, institutional firms, municipal bond underwriters, professional trading firms, and hedge funds. Our nationally recognized workstation, BrokerInsight™, is technology you can’t outgrow. Our competitive rates, flexible clearing deposits, and responsive support are services you can depend on. With no long-term contracts to sign, Wedbush is committed to continually provide you with the best services available. Wedbush Morgan Securities is consistently ranked as one of the largest trading firms in the nation. We welcome the opportunity to build a long and lasting clearing relationship with you.
Contact: Sean Thompson, Correspondent Services Sales, Wedbush Morgan Securities, 1000 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90017 . . . 213.688.4582 . . . sean.Thompson@wedbush.com or Tarik Munisoglu, Correspondent Services Sales, Wedbush Morgan Securities . . . 213.688.4582 . . . tarik.munisoglu@wedbush.com . . . www.wedbush.com