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August Valance Report

United States

This week’s economic data showed an economy muddling through at a rate of growth below potential, but unlikely to be negative. At times, the mediocre data has garnered a positive response after the string of negative news last week lowered market expectations and left many people expecting a “double dip”. The ADP report showed private payrolls contracted 10k in August and suggests Friday’s important payroll data could be a bit softer than expected (consensus is 41k of private payroll gains).

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Global Clearing

AVM's operations team, headed by Mark Perry, has provided independent clearing and operational services to the III funds and other fixed income clients for the past 13 years. This team of eleven professionals has an average of 8 years with AVM and 15 years of industry experience.

Last year, AVM cleared over $2.3 trillion of fixed income securities for the III funds and other clients. Additionally, it processed and confirmed approximately $1.3 trillion of derivatives securities, consisting of over 78,000 tickets.

To maintain control and efficiency, AVM has direct links to its New York clearing bank, and to many of the major clearing companies and exchanges. These connections are streamlined by our use of the latest vendor solutions and straight-through-processing systems, enabling us to minimize confirm turnarounds, money differences and fails.

A partial list of our Clearing and Operational services includes:

  • T+0 confirmation of most transactions
  • Daily and monthly reports on all clearing activities and money movement for all accounts
  • Pre-confirmation of all settlements with client counterparties prior to settlement
  • Principal and interest tracking and reporting
  • Reconciliation with clearing agencies and exchanges