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BUY-SIDE TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best buy-side OMS: Charles River Development

Charles River Development has established something of a mini-dynasty at the Buy-Side Technology Awards, with its Charles River Investment Management System...

Waters | Special | Awards & Rankings | 30 Nov 2010

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BUY-SIDE TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best buy-side algorithmic/DMA product or service: Credit Suisse AES

For the third consecutive year, the Buy-Side Technology Award for best algorithm provider goes to Credit Suisse’s Advanced Execution Services (AES), and for good reason: The firm has added hundreds of new clients over the past 18 months, and has maintained...

Waters | Special | Awards & Rankings | 30 Nov 2010

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BUY-SIDE TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best buy-side pricing/valuation service: Markit

As regulatory and investor pressure for investment managers to provide greater transparency mounts, firms’ valuation processes have become especially crucial as a way to demonstrate sound operational practices. Markit, the juggernaut of the pricing...

Waters | Special | Awards & Rankings | 30 Nov 2010

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BUY-SIDE TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best portfolio accounting platform: Advent Geneva

Throughout the past decade, Advent Geneva has doggedly gone about setting itself up as something of a gold standard when it comes to investment management accounting platforms. The product has accordingly done well at the Buy-Side Technology Awards, dominating...

Waters | Special | Awards & Rankings | 30 Nov 2010

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BUY-SIDE TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best broker-supplied tool/technology: Knight Direct–FAN

Buy-side traders keep firmly agnostic approaches to where they source their liquidity—lit, unlit, on- or off-exchange. A fill, at the end of the day, is a fill. As such, electronic trading tools geared toward sourcing the necessary liquidity should...

Waters | Special | Awards & Rankings | 30 Nov 2010

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BUY-SIDE TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best buy-side compliance product: Fidessa Sentinel

As with a number of other major Buy-Side Technology Awards categories, Fidessa’s Sentinel product has won best buy-side compliance product every year it has entered, and 2010 proved no exception. Available either as an in-house installation or via software-as-a-service...

Waters | Special | Awards & Rankings | 30 Nov 2010

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BUY-SIDE TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best buy-side execution venue: Liquidnet

Alternative execution venues have proliferated over the past decade as fragmentation has spread across more conventional liquidity sources. Among these new venues, Liquidnet—once again the winner of Buy-Side Technology’s best execution venue award—has...

Waters | Special | Awards & Rankings | 30 Nov 2010

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BUY-SIDE TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best buy-side newcomer (vendor or product): Knight Direct–Oasis

Mainstream algorithmic trading tools have proven indispensable for many investment managers and hedge funds trading high-volume, large-cap positions. Now that markets have grown more volatile, the development of an algorithm targeting small- and mid-cap...

Waters | Special | Awards & Rankings | 30 Nov 2010

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BUY-SIDE TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best product implementation at a buy-side firm: ConvergEx's Eze Castle Software

This year’s entrants for best product implementation at a buy-side firm ran the gamut from front- to back-office projects; in the end, an order management system (OMS) deployment garnered the most votes. Odey Asset Management, a London-based buy-side...

Waters | Special | Awards & Rankings | 30 Nov 2010

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BUY-SIDE TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best buy-side reconciliation platform: SmartStream Technologies

This category—new for 2010—reflects the ongoing challenges of operational risk mitigation and the need to increase operational efficiencies for buy-side firms, especially those active in the over-the-counter (OTC) markets. Reconciliation capabilities...

Waters | Special | Awards & Rankings | 30 Nov 2010

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