Opinion
Complexity driving automation
The global investment management industry is continually evolving in terms of sophistication and the complexity of instruments traded by buy-side firms. This, in turn, is driving the development of back-office technologies designed to process these…
A shift in the balance of power
Hedge funds, especially start-ups, operate at a huge disadvantage. Compared with larger, better established asset managers, small hedge funds do not have access to the appropriate tools to manage their trading operations. This is because, as a start-up,…
Smoke and mirrors
It's time to revisit the perennial challenge of hedge fund valuation practices. Investors may now be asking more pertinent and accurate questions by way of due diligence studies regarding how managers price their portfolio holdings, although many funds…
In search of the perfect hybrid
There has been significant consolidation in the transfer agency space in the last few years, to the point where a handful of providers now account for the bulk of the global buy-side industry. But as David White explains, not all transfer agents are…
And the Winners Are…
The results are in, the votes have been counted, and this week the Inside Market Data awards will be announced, recognizing the talent and innovation that has shone within our industry during the past year. And the winners are…
Down the Mifid Rabbit Hole
Alice heard the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!' … Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with…
The CEP Conundrum
Relationships can be complex. Specifically, recognizing relationships between different data inputs can be a complex process, and one that can prove even harder to transfer from the brain of a trader to a computer. And with trading strategies becoming…
Going Green, Seeing Red
It wasn't until I received a faxed notice from the Stockholm stock exchange about a trading firm last week which actually arrived ahead of the same news via an email consolidator that I realized the market data industry is pretty darned environmentally…
Shadow Complex
Demand for independent pricing shadows the rise of complex structured finance transactions as regulatory scrutiny increases. By JR Rieger, vice president of Global Evaluations, Standard & Poor's
Reference Data Hits the Headlines
Since the launch of Inside Reference Data in April last year, I've had little opportunity to keep in touch with my old friends at corporate actions data and software vendor Xcitek and data management provider Asset Control. But both firms graced the…
Hitting the Gas
When Exegy and HyperFeed first unveiled the idea of a hardware-accelerated, appliance-based ticker plant at last year's SIA show, it was greeted with a mixture of awe and bewilderment. Some struggled to comprehend the new technology. Others said it…
The Keys to Cross-Asset Integration
Effective data management strategies can be a major contributor to growing revenues and reducing costs by integrating across asset classes. By Arup Sinha and Roy Antony
Into the Dark Pool
EDITOR'S LETTER
Editor’s letter: Been there, done that
I can't help but feel that the EMS boom that the buy side is currently experiencing is another example of a passing fad. I hope I am wrong on this score – and by writing this I am by no means trivialising or casting doubt on the efforts that a number of…
The middle way
Tony Swei of Tradar looks at the benefits and potential pitfalls for hedge funds that have decided to outsourcing certain middle-office functions including accounting
The cost of oblivion
What happened to the dream of starting a hedge fund with a few million dollars, a phone and a PC?
The changing face of OMSs
The global investment management industry is experiencing an increasingly rapid rate of change, creating a challenge for portfolio managers, traders and providers of trading systems alike. LatentZero's Richard Hooke explains how buy-side order management…
A case in point
Over the past several months, copious amounts of editorial ink have been devoted in this and other buy-side publications to the increasing interest of investment and hedge fund managers in execution management systems (EMS). Interest has, in turn, given…