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Risk in progress

For years, the notion of real-time risk management to better inform buy-side traders prior to making executions has proven elusive. And now that lessons learned from the ongoing global financial crisis continue to mount, the value of real-time pre-trade...

Buy-Side Technology | Feature | Best Execution | 01 Jun 2009

Great expectations

Institutional investors are driving the buy side in terms of the adoption of best practices and the technology that underpins such initiatives. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the client reporting realm where institutional players have come to expect...

Buy-Side Technology | Feature | Best Execution | 06 May 2009

Dark diligence

“Who do you trust?” As that question gains pertinence among buy-side managers, aspects of their relationships with broker-dealers have come under scrutiny. In the midst of sell-side upheavals and ongoing volatility, buy-side traders might presume...

Buy-Side Technology | Feature | Best Execution | 01 May 2009

Baptism of fire

Counterparty risk has historically been an issue mostly for sell-side institutions to address, but the collapse of Lehman Brothers laid that notion to rest. Now, investment managers have had to get up to speed on what risks their counterparty exposures...

Buy-Side Technology | Feature | Best Execution | 01 Apr 2009

Compliance 2009: Who's pulling the strings?

Compliance, like risk management, has traditionally been seen as a business process that curtails portfolio managers’ ability to generate returns. But this has changed to the point that now managers see compliance as a way of winning mandates. By Victor...

Buy-Side Technology | Feature | Buy-Side Operations | 01 Apr 2009

Fund managers gear up down south

The South African investment management industry is small compared with those of the US East Coast and Western Europe. But as Victor Anderson reports, a small industry does not necessarily imply an unsophisticated one.

Buy-Side Technology | Feature | Best Execution | 05 Mar 2009

Registration redux

For months now, hedge fund industry participants have anticipated greater regulatoryinvolvement by the US government. But while no concrete regulatory requirement yet exists for hedge funds, proposed rules pushing for hedge fund registration under the...

Buy-Side Technology | Feature | Best Execution | 01 Mar 2009

Cloudy concept, clear gains

In an industry beset by acronyms, ‘cloud computing’ has become the latest buzzword and it is yet to be fully understood, let alone implemented, across the buy side. The term means different things to different firms, but it varies subtly to the ASP...

Buy-Side Technology | Feature | Business Continuity & Outsourcing | 09 Feb 2009

There will be risk

Energy and commodities markets provided no safe haven for buy-side firms last year. Abysmal performances combined with higher margins and mounting investor redemptions could be chalked up to the fact that 2008 punished the financial industry indiscriminately,...

Buy-Side Technology | Feature | Content Focus | 01 Feb 2009

2009: the year of doing more with less

For asset management firms of all shapes and sizes, fresh technology investment is unlikely this year and existing infrastructures will have to be extended to support new business opportunities. But as Joel Clark reports, doing more with less could have...

Buy-Side Technology | Feature | Buy-Side Operations | 08 Jan 2009

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