Opinion
On Deck in the Data Dugout
With the baseball season about to get under way in my adopted homeland, it's not surprising that I find many conversations about market data littered with sporting analogies. Why? Perhaps because, as anyone who has witnessed a good double- or even triple…
"Direct" Comparisons
Last week in this column, I compared the financial results of the big three listed real-time data vendors—Reuters, Thomson Financial and Interactive Data (minus Bloomberg, of course, which is privately held). One thing that became clear—apart from the…
Show Me the Money
The products from today's market data vendors allow all sorts of investment professionals to compare and contrast companies side-by-side. But how do the vendors themselves compare?
Setting the Standards for Managing MiFID
With time running out for compliance with the European Union's MiFID regulations, and no common reference data standards in sight, firms should look at how they can leverage existing technologies, and incorporate recommendations where they exist, rather…
Quest for 'Best'
EDITORS LETTER
Addressing multi-strategy hurdles
City Practitioners’ Robert Norris details the technology and operational hurdles buy-side firms need to address when embarking on a multi-strategy investment operation.
Data-driven decisions
Quantitative techniques are increasingly becoming a major component of equity-based investment products for money managers of all sizes and styles. Benefiting from a quantitative methodology, however, requires a comprehensive strategy and technology…
Riding the risk
The US hedge fund industry had a close call last month when the President's Working Group on Financial Markets decided that while greater oversight of hedge funds was needed, no new regulations would be imposed on this growing and sizeable portion of the…
Wanted: Data "Eco-Warriors"
Industry automation has helped reduce data pollution. Will treating the data cycle as an "ecosystem" help firms further clean up their acts? By Fritz McCormick, GoldenSource
The Road Ahead
EDITOR'S LETTER
You don't want to get this one wrong
Selecting your risk management platform is not a decision you want to get wrong, says Risk Control's John Lewis