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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...

Buy-Side Technology | Special | 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,...

Buy-Side Technology | Special | 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 following...

Buy-Side Technology | Special | 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 steadily...

Buy-Side Technology | Special | 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...

Buy-Side Technology | Special | 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...

Buy-Side Technology | Special | 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 a...

Buy-Side Technology | Special | 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 | Special | Best Execution | 01 Sep 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 hosted...

Buy-Side Technology | Special | Complex Events Processing | 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 year’s...

Buy-Side Technology | Special | Best Execution | 01 Aug 2009

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