Portfolio management
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,…
The Data Challenges of Valuing Complex Securities
How to value growing numbers of increasingly complex fixed-income securities came under discussion at a panel discussion hosted recently by Standard & Poor's. Panelists debated the data inputs required as well as which models to employ to generate the…
Spotlight on Ben Jackson
Stewart Eisenhart speaks with Ben Jackson, SunGard Kiodex’s recently appointed chief operating officer, about his plans for the firm’s commodities trading platform.
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…
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FinAnalytica upgrades FoHF platform
FinAnalytica, a Seattle-based provider of risk management and portfolio construction analytics based on statistical finance methodologies, has released CognityFoF version 2.7. According to the vendor, buy-side users will now have their "own unique…
Thomson Builds One for Hedge Funds
DATA DISPLAY & ANALYTICS
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SCROLLING NEWS
Softing Picture Still Fuzzy
SPECIAL REPORT
Markit RED: Invaluable Standard or Monopoly?
Credit default swaps are supported by a single reference entity standard, Markit RED. This has brought stability and efficiency to the market. But, asks Elizabeth Lumley, is Markit's dominance cause for concern?
News Briefs
NEWS ANALYSIS
Markit Acquires Communicator
ORGANIZATION & STRATEGY
Grid Computing Gets Real
OPEN PLATFORM
Multex Founders' Instant Information Gains Traction
DATA DISPLAY & ANALYTICS