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OFI Asset Management Chooses Quantifi XL
OFI Asset Management has selected Quantifi XL for the pricing and analysis of their structured products and distressed market portfolios, according to today's release.
OFI is one of Europe’s leading asset management firms, with experience in structured products and distressed markets. OFI has over €22 billion of assets under management and employs 250 people, of whom 110 are investment professionals committed to portfolio management.
According to Quantifi's release, OFI was seeking a strong yet intuitive front-office application that would allow them to deliver meaningful pricing, structuring and sensitivity analysis. Ease of use, transparency, speed, sophistication and excellent support were all factors in the decision.
According to Guillaume Launay, head of structured dredit at OFI, commenting in the release, “Quantifi analytics are particularly powerful and flexible, and we highly value the robust functionality, which has empowered us to streamline the pricing and analysis of our structured credit portfolio. Quantifi XL is now considered to be an integral component within our structured credit business and has allowed us to enhance the manner in which we monitor and control our risk.”
According to Rohan Douglas, CEO of Quantifi, Acquiring OFI Asset Management, a leading asset management firm in France, as a client adds to the diversity of Quantifi's expanding client base. Douglas said Quantifi has been successful in adding clients across Europe in the asset management sector.. Given OFI’s access to many sell-side analytic tools, it is particularly rewarding to have Quantifi analytics used by their front office.”
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