Take a step back into the history of the Separately Managed Accounts Industry. SMAForum’s timeline details the growth of the industry and highlights the key people who made it all it happen.
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2005
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Compensation for SMA marketers begins to rebound after several years of decline, according to a survey of industry leaders performed by Mark Elzweig Company, Ltd.
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2005
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National Securities Clearing Corporation withdraws from SEC consideration a proposed rule change that would have allowed the clearinghouse to provide services to the separately managed accounts industry. The initiative sought to establish a centralized communications system linking sponsoring broker/dealers and investment managers, but was met by industry opposition.
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2004
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The board of directors of the Investment Dealers Association of Canada approves amendments to its separately managed accounts regulations. The section of the regulation governing the opening and operation of managed accounts is altered to explicitly permit the management of managed accounts by external sub-advisors, provided they are properly registered in their home jurisdiction. Other amended sections deal with basic supervisory requirements for managed accounts, procedures to enforce the conflict of interest provisions and a process to ensure fairness in the allocation of investment opportunities among managed accounts.
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2004
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Nikko Cordial Advisors, Ltd. of Japan becomes the Money Management Institute’s first international member.
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2004
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CheckFree Investment Services renames its CheckFree APL technology platform to emphasize the service's growing evolution. According to CIS, the name change from CheckFree APL to CheckFree EPL (Enhanced Portfolio Lifecycle) represents the next phase of a transformation to evolve the technology, workflows and services currently available through the product.
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2004
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The Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR) changes its name to the CFA Institute.
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2003
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Industry pioneer Frank Campanale leaves his position as president and CEO of the Smith Barney Consulting Group. Campanale had served as the Consulting Group president since 1996 and oversaw the firm’s development of no load mutual fund separately managed accounts and multi-discipline account products.
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2003
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PNC Financial Services Group subsidiary PFPC acquires ADVISORport, one of the industry’s first functional Unified Managed Account (UMA) platforms. At the time of the acquisition, ADVISORport serviced 40,000 accounts representing over $13 billion.
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2003
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Assets held in the separately managed accounts industry top the half trillion mark for the first time. According to a survey by The Money Management Institute, industry assets totaled $506.63 billion at the end of 2003.
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2003
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CheckFree Investment Services unveils its new Galaxy functionality, which automates the transfer of execution prices among sponsors and managers on its CheckFree APL separately managed accounts platform. The functionality is designed to simplify workflow procedures between participants in the separately managed accounts industry.
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2003
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Separately managed accounts begin to establish a foothold in the United Kingdom as Abbey National, the nation’s sixth largest bank, introduces a new managed account product in September. According to a report by TrustNet, an information service provider for United Kingdom's financial sector, the managed account industry in the UK experiences noticeable growth in 2003 with eight new firms either developing a product or announcing their intention to do so.
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2003
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Multi-manager asset management products reach $680 billion at year-end 2003, according to a Cerulli Associates report. The Cerulli report also projects that assets invested in global multi-manager products will top $1.3 trillion by 2008.
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2002
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Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA) releases its Standards of Practice for investment consultants. The Standards are designed to provide guidelines and clarity on issues that come up in the everyday practice of investment consulting and consider such issues as soft-dollar payment disclosures, the provision and payment of services to and from vendors and methodologies for calculating and presenting investment performance. During the year, ICIMC and IMCA merge as one industry force and advocate for SMAs.
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2002
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An FRC study concludes that MDAs are one of the fastest growing segments of the SMA industry. According to the study, FRC estimates that under a moderate adoption scenario, MDA sales will represent 25% of all SMA sales and will be approximately $26 billion in 2002, growing to $35 billion in 2003 and $46 billion in 2004.
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2002
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The Money Management Institute reports that assets held in separately managed accounts industry-wide totaled $417.14 billion at the close of second quarter.
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2002
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CheckFree Investment Services rolls out its Multiple Strategy Portfolio (MSP) functionality. Introduced amid the growing popularity of MSP accounts, the new functionality offered through CheckFree's APL platform enables seamless participation of unaffiliated managers in a single account.
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2002
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The Bank of New York acquires both LFG, Inc., the privately held parent company of the Lockwood Financial, and EMAT, a provider of processing services for individually managed accounts that was co-founded by Lockwood chairman and founder Leonard Reinhart and Jay N. Whipple III. The acquisition illustrates the growing outsourcing trend in the separately managed account industry as well as the fierce level of competition among providers.
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2000
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The Money Management Institute works as advocate against the SEC investigation of the SMA industry. As part of its efforts, the MMI alerts its members to the heightened scrutiny being given by the SEC to the SMA industry and reminds industry participants of the need to be vigilant in complying with the regulatory framework that permits money managers to offer separately managed account services to clients.
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