SimCorp continues to gain share in Australia’s funds management software market, after being chosen to replace a Bloomberg/Princeton frontoffice/backoffice combination at QBE Insurance group.
Over the next 18 months, Simcorp will progressively become the central system for the QBE investment division, beginning with accounting and investment operations, moving on to portfolio management and dealing, then adding performance analytics. Simcorp already has three Australian clients – Macquarie Funds Management Group, Challenger Financial Services and its assorted subsidiary boutiques, and the NSW Treasury Corporation. A contract with the Monetary Authority of Singapore was won and is serviced from Simcorp’s Sydney office.
Since taking over the top job at the $44 billion Funds SA more than a year ago, chief executive John Piteo has ushered in an investment function overhaul and wrapped up an important stage of the fund’s five-year data transformation program. It pledges to recentre around investment performance and more efficient processes, as the “missing piece” has been found in incoming CIO Con Michalakis.
Darcy SongJanuary 10, 2025
