Risk Management, Performance & Reporting
Managing Risk special report
May 2010 - sponsored by: Kingland, Sybase, Xenomorph
Managing Risk special report
May 2009 - sponsored by: Asset Control Eagle Investment Systems Standard & Poor's Xenomorph
Abel/Noser Launches Algo Customization Platform
NEW YORK-Building on its post-trade analytics product, Trade-Zoom, agency broker Abel/Noser recently launched its Signature Algorithms application, which will customize algorithms based on the trader's past trading behavior and lower their trading costs.
Citigroup’s launch of it PRISM tool
Visualization Technology
Looking Through the Prism
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE
Risk Tech Under Review
Open platform
Will History Repeat Itself?
Open Platform
Middle-office move
A decade ago, the typical buy-side firm comprised three distinct areas: the front, the middle and the back offices, each responsible for managing its own well-defined functions. But that is no longer the case as buy-side firms look to move traditional…
Algorithmics whitepaper: front office driving credit value adjustment
The market volatility experi enced during the 2008 financial crisis has forced financial institutions to reassess their traditional approach to counterparty credit risk. A number of banks have moved beyond the control mindset of credit limits to…
Maitland stops the clocks
Maitland Fund Services, based in the South African buy-side stronghold of Cape Town, has, according to Nick Baikoff, the firm's head of asset services, altered the clock speed for itself and its clients by developing a real-time front- to back-office…
DST Global Solutions launches risk consulting service
DST Global Solutions' Investment Management Solutions (IMS) business has launched a range of risk consulting services to address various aspects of buy-side firms' risk management challenges. Edward Dumas, DST Global Solutions' head of risk solutions for…
A rude awakening
Many aspects of buy-side technology and operations have had to grow up fast following the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Collateral management, for many firms a low-priority function entrusted to Excel spreadsheets before the credit crunch, is the stand…
Immediate risks, distant rewards
Research from Greenwich Associates and Omgeo published in February examines more pro-active hedge fund approaches to risk management aimed at dealing with counterparty risk and investor demand. Meanwhile, studies from Tabb Group and Celent Communications…
Safe From the Startup
Risk Technology
Risk tech reviewed
Following the market collapse of 2008, 2009 was a year when asset managers regrouped in terms of portfolio performance and operational margins, which now stand at about 15%, on average, across Europe. But what will happen in the sector this year? Where…
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…
Utilizing Centralization
The concept of a global centralized reference data utility is not new. But some argue now could be the right, and perhaps the only time, to make it a reality. Carla Mangado asks what the next step will be, and whether there is enough clarity on the issue…
Buy-side compliance and risk functions to align more closely
Compliance and risk operations at some investment management firms appear likely to integrate more closely - or in some instances may even combine outright - over the course of 2010, according to projections by financial technology consultancy Aite Group.