Portfolio management
Interactive Data adds new features to PrimeTerminal offering
Interactive Data Corporation has added a range of portfolio analysis functions to its PrimeTerminal Professional financial desktop. The enhancements are designed to allow investment advisers and wealth managers to access and analyse their customer…
Charles River launches Charles River IMS Version 9.1
Charles River Development has released Version 9.1 of the Charles River Investment Management System (Charles River IMS). This release, which completes Charles River's transition to a service-oriented architecture (SOA), integrates order and execution…
ITG: closer alignment needed between trading strategy, cost analysis and investment decisions
A new white paper published by Investment Technology Group (ITG) finds that buy-side firms can expand capacity for assets by more carefully considering implementation costs resulting from their portfolio managers' investment decisions.
News, On a Need-to-Know Basis
Firms using machine-readable news as an input to trading strategies are highly secretive about gaining any advantage. However, major data providers are enthusiastically backing machine-readable news services. In the wake of Deutsche Börse's purchase of…
StatPro Group enhances CAP offering
StatPro Group, the Wimbledon, UK-based provider of portfolio analytics and data solutions for the global asset management industry, has made two enhancements to its system for pricing complex financial assets: T+0 pricing for credit default swaps has…
Spotlight on Arun Sarwal
Arun Sarwal, ex-chief operating officer at Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, was recently named chief executive of DST Global Solutions' investment management solutions division. He will oversee three areas: asset servicing and investment…
Pricing priorities
After the global credit crisis exposed weaknesses in methods investment managers and other financial institutions employ to price and assess the risks in their portfolios, a new Aite Group report predicts firms will double their technology spending on…
Pricing imperfections
Allocating a definitive and transparent price to an asset for which no active market exists is a process mired in complexity and controversy. David Patrikarakos investigates the new generation of valuation models to address the pricing and valuations…
Spotlight on David Merrill
FinAnalytica, a portfolio risk management software developer, has appointed David Merrill as chief executive as part of a new management team; Andrew Huddart has been named chairman and Boryana Racheta-Iotova promoted to president. Merrill discusses…
Editor's Letter - In praise of the 't' word
Transparency is now the buy side's hottest buzzword. Actually, that's been the case for quite some time now. Naturally, every buy-side constituent has its own take on exactly what it means to them and their business, but one thing's for certain: as an…
Addressing the buy side's needs
FINCAD is by no means a newcomer to the buy-side risk management space having been founded almost two decades ago. But rather than resting on its well-documented laurels, the Canadian vendor continues to sign new contracts, while its substantial client…
Asset managers forced to deal with counterparty risk
Traditionally, counterparty risk was always viewed as a sell-side phenomenon, but all that changed with the demise of Lehman Brothers in September last year. Now, counterparty risk has a distinctly buy-side flavour, as Sybase's Sinan Baskan explains
Old dog new tricks
Linedata Services is a name long associated with the buy side through its LongView OMS, various accounting and electronic trading tools, and more recently its 2005 acquisition of Beauchamp Financial Technology. But as Victor Anderson discovers during his…
Home Is Where The Risk Is
Opinion
Finding the Right Building Blocks
In recent years, buy-side firms have been looking increasingly at EDM offerings, but not all have found it an easy task. Buy-side users want flexible and up-to-date data models and platforms implemented on time and on budget. Tine Thoresen asks if the…
Bloomberg unveils new portfolio analytics
Bloomberg has added an analytics tool to its suite of buy-side trading systems that includes POMS (Portfolio Order Manage-ment System) and POMS-AI (Portfolio Order Management System for Alternative Investors).
Doing what it says on the tin
Given the ongoing challenges facing buy-side firms in their attempts to accurately and transparently value hard-to-price securities, it is no surprise that the industry has witnessed the launch of a number of services designed specifically to address…
Complex market conditions driving PM&A uptake
Faced with long-term market volatility, increasingly complex asset types and more exacting investor requirements, traditional asset managers and hedge funds are turning in greater numbers to performance measurement and attribution (PM&A) systems…