Products April 14, 2016

Wilshire Unveils Omnia Platform

Wilshire Associates Inc. announced the launch of Wilshire Omnia, ‘a single-platform, fully integrated solution that delivers comprehensive portfolio risk analysis, attribution and performance measurement across markets and asset classes.’

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Wilshire Associates says its new Omnia platform incorporates advanced multi-asset-class analytics and an intuitive user experience meant to streamline the investment decision process with a flexible and scalable platform.

The solution offers security-level risk characteristics and reporting for more than 3 million securities and is designed to help clients maximize returns and mitigate risk, according to Wilshire. Cecilia Loo, president of Wilshire Analytics, adds that the solution will help investors “monitor multiple factors with a robust set of analytics that can be accessed quickly, securely and in user-friendly formats that enhance workflow needs.”

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Wilshire Omnia is centrally hosted and delivered through a standard Web browser. It can be accessed on a PC or any Web-enabled mobile device, the firm explains, and the platform’s “tiered architecture” allows for “maximum flexibility and superior security features.”

Additional characteristics of Wilshire Omnia include “multi-asset-class coverage of global equities and fixed income, as well as commodities, derivatives, FX [foreign exchange] products, alternatives and constituent-level drill-down for mutual funds and ETFs [exchange-traded funds]; transaction-based, holdings-based or flow-based global performance measurement capabilities; integrated industry-recognized factor models that measure portfolio performance and risk (in absolute terms or versus a benchmark); global factor risk decomposition for cross-asset portfolios and funds; and multi-portfolio views for C-level reporting tools and easy comparison across different portfolio managers.”

More information is at www.wilshire.com/wilshireomnia. 

Break from the Grind April 14, 2016

A Little Friday File Fun

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In Coon Rapids, Minnesota, someone at a gas station next to a Burger King called police to report what appeared to be an act of vandalism. Burger King employees were using tire irons and other objects to smash out the windows of the building. When police arrived, the restaurant manager said she had just received a phone call from a man identifying himself as a fire department official who seemed to have a working knowledge of commercial fire safety systems. The caller said he could tell that “gas pressure inside the building was rising,” and warned that the restaurant was in danger of exploding unless the exterior windows were immediately broken to relieve pressure. Firefighters called to the restaurant checked the building but found no traces of leaking gas, and the incident was confirmed to have been a hoax.

In Vienna, Austria, police are acknowledging that they published a photo of U.S. actor and TV producer Peter Marc Jacobson by mistake in their search for a suspected fraudster. Jacobson is best known as the co-creator of the sitcom “The Nanny.” A police spokesman said they circulated Jacobson’s photo after it was provided by a woman who said she was defrauded of 46,000 euros (about $52,000), according to the Associated Press. He said the suspect apparently used a photo of Jacobson in a false identification document he gave the victim and “must look deceptively similar” to him.

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In Concord, New Hampshire, the Works Bakery Café offered a discount this past Tuesday to women in its New Hampshire shops in honor of Equal Pay Day. The chain only charged women 79 cents on the dollar for items, while men were charged full price.

In Maryville, Tennessee, a man was detained on the campus of William Blount High School after creating a disturbance. According to the Blount County Sheriff’s Office, the man came into the vocational building around 8:40 a.m., wearing only his underwear and socks, and tried to tear the fire alarm off the wall. According to the local NBC News station, witnesses said the man claimed there were smurfs inside the device. He was taken to Blount Memorial Hospital for a mental evaluation.

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