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Institutional client reporting platforms set for wider uptake

Traditional asset managers and hedge funds will increase spending on client reporting platforms in coming years in order to address requirements from institutional investors and regulators for greater disclosure regarding investment strategies, performance,...

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

Asian buy-side firms move towards more advanced trading technologies

With assets under management topping $8 trillion as of 2007, the Asian and Australian traditional asset management and hedge fund industries present technology providers with major expansion opportunities, but the drive to increase adoption of electronic...

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

Tabb Group sees OMS/EMS spending on the wane

In the recently published research paper by Tabb Group, OMS or EMS? The buy-side perspective on selection and convergence, the New York-based consultancy anticipates that OMS and EMS deployments will suffer as a result of US, UK and European buy-side...

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

Celent report: IT spending down in 2009, moderate growth in 2010

According to a new report from Boston-based consultancy Celent, IT spending in financial services: A global perspective , institutions globally will spend $353.3 billion on IT during 2009. This is a 1.3% decline compared with 2008, and is markedly lower...

Buy-Side Technology | Special | | 01 Feb 2009

Celent anticipates 20% decline in hedge fund IT spending

Hedge funds and funds of hedge funds will reduce their technology spending by more than 20% during 2009 as the industry continues its unprecedented contraction. A new Celent report expects that technology initiatives for the near term will entail maximising...

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

Case study Perfect partners

Guernsey-based Corazon Capital has been through a number of organisational changes in its twelve-year history, which culminated in the implementation of a new investment management platform developed by Third Financial Software at the end of last year...

Buy-Side Technology | Special | Buy-Side Operations | 01 Jan 2009

Technology spending to drop 5% during 2009

Ongoing challenges impacting financial market participants is likely to drive down technology spending at buy-side firms even though they are being spurred by regulators and investors to enhance their enterprise-wide risk management and transparency....

Buy-Side Technology | Special | Buy-Side Operations | 01 Jan 2009

Hedge fund IT spending to fall below $1 billion

As hedge fund managers square up to the most precipitous market challenges in their history, the global hedge fund industry will likely have to contend with the prospects of fewer funds in business, lower total assets under management, and slashed technology...

Buy-Side Technology | Special | OMS & EMS | 01 Dec 2008

Complex market conditions driving PM&A uptake

Faced with long-term market volatility, increasingly complex asset types and more exacting investor requirements, traditional asset managers and hedge funds are turning in greater numbers to performance measurement and attribution (PM&A) systems available...

Buy-Side Technology | Special | Portfolio Management | 01 Nov 2008

Insurance industry IT spending to shift gear

IT spending in the insurance sector will be less hard hit than the banking sector in 2009, but will shift to focus more on risk management and compliance, a Datamonitor report has found.

Buy-Side Technology | Special | Research & Commentary | 01 Nov 2008

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