Risk Management, Performance & Reporting
Attitude adjustment
The expectation game's role in the hedge fund industry can prove make-or-break more often than not for many individual managers. Bearish investor expectations in particular don't bode especially well. By Stewart Eisenhart
A northern tale
The wealth management industry has become a happy hunting ground for front-office technology providers who can assist managers in growing their business. When one such vendor deployed its platform to Border Asset Management early last year, it found a…
Front Office Grids: Why Bother?
During a panel discussion that took place at the second annual Street#Grid event ( see story , page 1 ), technologists and consultants discussed the challenges of expanding enterprise compute and data grids to the front office. It reminds me of a…
Surviving on a Budget
Recent market turmoil has put pressure on reference data teams to meet growing regulatory requirements and reduce risk. And all this has to be done on a budget. Tine Thoresen examines how market data tools could help firms in the current climate
Open Platform - The Algo Advantage
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Filling the Gaps
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The Right Formula
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Falling into place
Like so many other buy-side practitioners with closely married business and technology remits, Damian Debellotte 'fell' into the position as head of investment management systems at Newton Investment Management after completing a technology…
Where Has All the Money Gone?
Money certainly hasn't found its way to New York City. According to a recently published report by industry analyst firm Celent, brokerage IT spending in North America from 2008 through 2011 will grow at an anemic rate of 1.3 percent, which is down from…
Front-Office IT Spending Shrivels
BOSTON-The current economic downturn has stripped the short-term IT spending focus from the front office at large brokerages, according to a recently published report from Boston-based analyst firm Celent.
Merrill Lynch's Three Steps to a Global Grid
Creating a global compute grid is not an easy task, but traders at Merrill Lynch have been benefiting from the firm's global grid for the past year as they send analytics calculations across the wide area network (WAN) on a daily basis.
One Grid to Rule Them All?
If you do a quick term search on Google for "grid to rule them all," it returns 205 pages. If you search just on the term "grid computing," it returns another 4.88 million-in English alone.
EvaluatingValuation Risk
Customer demand for evaluated prices is increasing, and with the current turbulent market conditions, the trend is set to continue. The problem now is to ensure independent valuations do not result in increased risk. Carla Mangado reports on how firms…
Off-the-Shelf Life
Asset managers are increasingly looking outside their own walls to automate corporate actions processing. But the selection is extensive and some firms choose not to review a large number of platforms. Tine Thoresen explores the different types of off…
Looking to Diversify
Asia and Emerging Markets
Data Center 3.0
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Power and Cooling
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