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Hedge funds managing in tougher operational environment
Despite ongoing turbulence in the global financial markets, some sectors of the hedge fund industry are not only surviving but adapting to successfully achieve their investment mandates. A new Celent report does not discount the casualties among hedge…
OMS vendors look to smaller, international managers for future growth
With North American and Western European buy-side markets at their saturation points, a new TowerGroup report anticipates a slower rate of growth for the buy-side OMS market. The future of OMS vendors' growth prospects, says the report, lies with small-…
Report: Applications Key to Cutting Latency
Investment banks seeking to reduce latency should focus on optimizing their application software stack rather than their networks, according to new research recently published by Paris-based networking consultancy Net2S.
Panel: Quants Must Tackle Data Concerns
Data issues are emerging as key concerns for quantitative traders and analysts, with rising data volumes, data quality, and the need to analyze data to derive meaningful conclusions at breakneck speed all contributing to traders' concerns, according to…
Automating the Hunt for Alpha
The financial industry is on the verge of the next evolutionary growth spurt in algorithmic trading. However, no one knows for sure where it's leading.
Algos: The Next Generation
With the dramatic growth in available processing power and advancements in complex event processing (CEP) technology to handle expanded real-time inputs, trading algorithms are on the verge of the next evolutionary quantum leap. DWT has gathered a panel…
Portfolio Trading Dominates Algo Growth
Most Wall Street players tend to leave divining the future to mediums with basement storefront dens, but most agree that in the next five years the use of trading algorithms will be going nowhere but up.
Xeno Survey Questions Data Quality
Nearly 80 percent of market data professionals consider market data quality a serious issue that requires them to spend significant time checking and validating data rather than on projects that deliver competitive advantage, according to the results of…
White paper calls for greater fund pricing transparency
Hedge funds' pricing and valuation methodologies never seem far from the spotlight these days as the industry contemplates ongoing calls for greater levels of disclosure and transparency. However, as Stewart Eisenhart reports, calling for reforms and the…
The more prime broker relationships, the better
Large and mid-tier hedge funds have been trimming the numbers of their prime broker relationships over the past two years, eliminating redundancies and gaining operational efficiencies. But that may change in the wake of the Bear Stearns collapse and…
Options Symbology - Time to Play Catch-Up
Only a handful of firms have started preparing for the options symbology initiative that will change options codes for trading and settlement, but experts say some of the work should have been done yesterday. Tine Thoresen reports on how firms can catch…
SIFMA 2008: Vendors Broaden Services, Appeal
This year's SIFMA Technology Management Conference and Exhibition saw data vendors and technology providers concentrate on expanding the breadth of their services to appeal to new, different user bases.
Firms Seek Lower Latency in Derivatives Markets
Though latency continues to be a priority for participants in Europe's electronic exchange-traded derivatives markets, economic and physical limitations are making it more difficult for firms to achieve significant gains over their competition, according…
Trading, Latency and Risk Management Define Sifma 2008
NEW YORK-Neither a down market nor the year's first heat wave could keep financial technologist from this year's Technology Management Conference and Exhibit hosted by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (Sifma) in Midtown Manhattan…
Sifma 2008: A Sneak Peek
Editor's Note: Although the theme of this year's Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's (Sifma's) Technology Management Conference and Exhibit may be "Managing IT in Financial Services During the Credit Crisis," it hasn't deterred a…
SIFMA Showoffs
With so much competing for your attention at this week's Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's annual Technology Management Conference and Exhibit, how can you be sure you are making the best use of your time? Over the following pages ,…
What's Data Got To Do With IT?
Firms face a swathe of technology-related challenges-latency, capacity, hardware acceleration, benchmarking and complex event processing, to name but a few-with a myriad of potential solutions. Ahead of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets…
Smart Routing to Define Brokerages
Until the launch of the Chi-X multilateral trading facility (MTF) and the implementation of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) in Nov. 2007, smart order routing was a foreign concept for many European market participants. Since then,…
A Letter From Your Host
Welcome to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's (Sifma's) Technology Management Conference and Exhibit-the industry's premier educational event for technology management professionals.