Victor Anderson
Victor Anderson is editor-in-chief of Waters magazine and WatersTechnology. He joined the Risk Waters Group, now part of Incisive Media, in 2001. Victor was born and grew up in South Africa and was an English, History of Art and Director of Sports teacher before making the change to journalism. Before leaving South Africa, while working for Redsand Publishing, he edited a number of magazines for the United Cricket Board of South Africa, the South African Rugby Football Union, and the Professional Golfers' Association of South Africa.
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"There will always be hedge fund managers and others who will try to ride a wave of optimism to fortune with other people's money. That mindset will return; the question is whether lenders, creditors and regulators will allow it"
Advent unveils update to Axys
Advent Software has released Axys 3.8, an updated version of the San Francisco-based buy-side vendor's portfolio accounting and reporting platform. Axys 3.8 includes updates to support the 2010 Options Symbology Initiative (OSI), an industry-wide…
Netage survey results highlight importance of investor portals
Netage Solutions, a Watertown, MA-based provider of CRM software and online reporting systems to the alternative asset management industry, has published the results of a recent survey in which it claims that a large portion of alternative investment…
Pricing Partners launches Price-it VaR module
Pricing Partners, the Paris-based independent revaluation specialist and provider of mathematical models and analytics for derivatives and structured products, has released a module providing VaR and stress-test calculations. Named Price-it VaR, it is…
Investment managers underestimate impact of AIFM directive says report
According to a recently published report from BDO, investment managers are failing to perceive the risks associated with the European Union's Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFM) directive. The survey, which asked investment managers in the UK to…
Cadis creates 'Centre for Excellence'
Cadis, the London-based buy-side data-management specialist, has launched a 'Centre for Excellence' designed to help clients to self-install Cadis implementations.
Editor's Letter - This one's a goner
Naked sponsored access is as good as gone. I cannot see how there can be any other conceivable conclusion to the SEC's January 13 proposals than an immediate ban on the practice whereby non-member trading firms are granted unsupervised access to…
Thomson Reuters launches Islamic Finance Gateway
Thomson Reuters has launched its 'next generation' Islamic Finance Gateway, a global, neutral platform and directory consisting of details for and links to Islamic finance professionals, rating agencies, industry standards bodies, Islamic finance hubs,…
Thomson Reuters launches TSE Arrowhead platform
Thomson Reuters has announced the live launch of a market-data delivery service for the Tokyo Stock Exchange's (TSE) new Arrowhead Platform. According to the vendor, delivery options offered by Thomson Reuters Data Feed Direct include both TSE Arrowhead…