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Immediate risks, distant rewards
Research from Greenwich Associates and Omgeo published in February examines more pro-active hedge fund approaches to risk management aimed at dealing with counterparty risk and investor demand. Meanwhile, studies from Tabb Group and Celent Communications...
Buy-Side Technology
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Research & Commentary |
01 Apr 2010 
Buy-side risk projects set to increase in 2010
Following mounting evidence that risk management processes in the traditional asset management and hedge fund industries proved alarmingly inadequate in the midst of the global credit crisis, investment managers are now intending to beef-up risk functions...
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Buy-Side Operations |
01 Feb 2010
Valuation vendor market to expand through 2012
A new Aite Group report anticipates that the pricing and valuation services industry will grow to $2.9 billion by the end of 2012, reflecting pressure from regulators and investors on buy-side managers and their custodians to improve these functions...
Buy-Side Technology
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Pricing & Valuations |
01 Jan 2010
Dark executions in Europe remain modest
European markets, still coming to terms with the impacts of Mifid, have yet to make substantial use of dark pools as liquidity continues to fragment. Dark-pool executions in the UK and on the Continent are nonetheless expected to increase slowly but...
Buy-Side Technology
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Data Feeds & Handlers |
01 Dec 2009
Buy-side views mixed on tech budgeting for 2010
Traditional asset managers and hedge funds indicate cautiously optimistic outlooks for 2010, according to a new survey by Aite Group. But those attitudes won't necessarily translate into greater investments in technology. Even though the worst of the...
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Research & Commentary |
01 Nov 2009
Everything in its right place
What a difference a year makes. The 2008 TradeTech West conference in San Francisco took place just days after the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the heralding of the global credit crisis. Projections of shoestring technology budgets, major overhauls...
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Best Execution |
01 Oct 2009
Connect to control
When AQR Capital Management, the $20 billion quantitative hedge fund and investment manager based in Greenwich, Connecticut, decided to upgrade its trade-matching processes, it had no other vendor than Omgeo in mind; and with Omgeo having developed...
Buy-Side Technology
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Buy-Side Operations |
01 Oct 2009
Changing equity markets test buy-side traders
Market volatility, counterparty risk and other issues are posing significant challenges to buy-side equity traders at the same time that their brokers are having to rethink their own business models. A new Tabb Group report, Equity trading in transition...
Buy-Side Technology
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Best Execution |
01 Sep 2009
Supplementary solution
When Metzler Asset Management opted to implement the Charles River IMS, it chose to supplement its existing front-office applications with the system, rather than use it as a replacement. For an asset manager with an historically strong in-house bias...
Buy-Side Technology
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Best Execution |
01 Aug 2009
Real-time risk: a mandate for trading in volatile markets
Not long ago financial services firms had to run their Monte Carlo simulations overnight. But with the advent of faster processors and new technology, firms can now manage their risk in real time or near to real time. Buy-Side Technology and DWT...
Buy-Side Technology
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Complex Events Processing |
01 Aug 2009
Pricing priorities
After the global credit crisis exposed weaknesses in methods investment managers and other financial institutions employ to price and assess the risks in their portfolios, a new Aite Group report predicts firms will double their technology spending...
Buy-Side Technology
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Portfolio Management |
01 Aug 2009
Executive action
Cynics would have argued that the buy and sell side would be too busy looking for the green shoots of economic recovery to attend the July 1 Best Execution 2009 (London) event, hosted by Buy-Side Technology and DWT. But an impressive turnout on the...
Buy-Side Technology
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Best Execution |
01 Aug 2009
Slew of regulations to impact asset and hedge fund managers
With efforts to set new regulatory structures in place for the financial services industry underway on multiple fronts, the impact on buy-side firms' technologies and operations will be profound and long-lasting, says a recent TowerGroup report. By...
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Exchange Data |
01 Jul 2009
Texas endowment fund opts for general overhaul
When the time came for Austin-based endowment manager Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust Company (TTSTC) to revamp its allocation process for alternative investment vehicles, a more robust risk management platform had to be part of the package. But rather...
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Buy-Side Operations |
01 Jul 2009
Spotlight trained on OTC pricing platforms
A new Celent Communications report evaluating providers of pricing tools for OTC derivatives and structured products finds that vendors have stepped up efforts to support clients under pressure from investors and regulators for more transparent and...
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Buy-Side Operations |
01 Jun 2009
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