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Rydex Investments selects SunGard's Asset Arena

Rydex Investments, a Rockville, Maryland-based asset management firm known for bringing institutional-style investments mainstream, has selected SunGard's Asset Arena to help address its needs in fund accounting, reporting and data consolidation. Delivered as an ASP solution, SunGard's Asset Arena Investment Accounting solution will provide support for Rydex's entire book of business as the firm seeks to consolidate operations with its sister asset management firm, Security Global Investors.

“Rydex's integration with Security Global Investors has presented an opportunity to streamline our operational infrastructure as we combine two distinct yet complementary fund complexes,” said Joseph Arruda, senior vice-president of Rydex Investments.

“We're confident that SunGard's technology, combined with its experience and knowledge, will help us to manage our combined business processes in an optimal and efficient manner.”

Doug Morgan, president of SunGard's institutional asset management business, said: “SunGard's Asset Arena helps our customers become more efficient across their operations. Rydex Investments and Security Global Investors are excellent examples of asset managers with the need to manage a variety of complex processing, reporting and data requirements on a single fund accounting platform. By selecting Asset Arena Investment Accounting, Rydex has helped demonstrate SunGard's ability to provide solutions that address the unique business requirements of today's asset managers.”

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Rydex Investments

Rydex Investments continues to drive change in the financial industry by introducing investment products and services that challenge conventional thinking, empower investors and provide essential new options for uncertain market conditions. Rydex manages approximately $12 billion in assets via nearly 100 mutual funds and exchange traded products.

Asset Arena

Asset Arena is SunGard's global suite of products and services for asset managers, institutional investors, and traditional and alternative fund administrators. Asset Arena supports the core functions of the asset management industry, including the investment process, investment operations and investor servicing. By leveraging technologies such as business process management and software as a service, Asset Arena helps investment firms manage complexity, increase efficiency, and reduce costs and operational risk, while maintaining agility to respond to changing business and regulatory requirements. For more information, visit http://www.sungard.com/assetarena.

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SunGard is one of the world's leading software and IT services companies. SunGard serves more than 25 000 customers in more than 70 countries, including the world's 25 largest financial services companies. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software. With annual revenue exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 472 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and services company on the Forbes list of private businesses. Based on information compiled by Datamonitor*, SunGard is the third-largest provider of business applications software after Oracle and SAP. Continuity, Insurance & Risk has recognised SunGard as service provider of the year an unprecedented five times. For more information, please visit SunGard at http://www.sungard.com.

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