Portfolio management
Returning to her roots
Clare Flynn Levy is accustomed to the hot seat: she founded Avocet Capital Management aged just 27, then headed-up hedge fund technology provider Beauchamp Financial for the three years prior to its acquisition by Linedata Services, before returning to…
Seeking clarity
ClariFI is a good example of a typical buy-side technology vendor: it is a relatively new, niche player, specialising in a crucial facet of the investment management process; it has found traction among the industry's largest, most celebrated players;…
Spotlight on Anand Pande
Citi veteran Anand Pande has taken the reins as group chief executive at capital markets research and analytics provider Amba Research. He discusses the opportunities and challenges of expanding the firm's buy- and sell-side client base as companies look…
Compliant derivatives
After 85 years at the heart of Wall Street, Bear Stearns is no more. But even before the highest profile and most celebrated casualty of the credit crunch closed its doors, the inevitable questions about who was next in line were already doing the rounds…
Euro wealth management tech market nears $2 billion
Spending by the European wealth management industry will reach $1.7 billion by the close of 2008, growing at a somewhat more modest pace than in recent years as global economic indicators remain volatile. Despite current challenges in financial markets…
Paladyne integrates NumeriX pricing models
New York-based hedge fund technology provider Paladyne Systems has partnered with pricing and risk analytics specialist NumeriX to enable its clients to better price complex securities.
Positioned in the buy side's sweet spot
It's unlikely that when Quantifi's founders established the firm some six years ago, they would have foreseen the extent to which the buy side would turn to credit as a source of alpha. However, recent events have revealed credit's more perilous side…
Overcoming Grid Challenges
With rapid changes in hardware and new third-party service offerings, firms looking to deploy and grow their grid computing environments face new and familiar challenges. DWT editor Rob Daly sits down with Jingwen Wang, vice president of products with…
HSBC Ramps Up Custom Indexes Business
HSBC is creating a growing number of custom indexes, in response to investor appetite for targeted investment vehicles, which has spurred demand for the bank's index data and calculation services, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Investor demand for customised benchmarks on the rise
According to new research, pension funds in the US and Europe are set to rely on more customised benchmarks in order to accurately measure the performances of the buy-side institutions to which they allocate capital and the instruments in which they…
Credit where it's due By Stewart Eisenhart
I'm a little late to the annual game of 'Top 10 (or five) trends for the year ahead', but there's no time like the present. Now that broad indicators of how 2008 will shape up for the financial services industry and for global economies in general have…
The Paris Debate
ROUNDTABLE
CMA partners with Numerix to empower credit traders
Credit market data provider CMA has partnered with Numerix, a provider of pricing and risk analytics, to create an integrated offering for buy-side firms.
Feeds, Terminals in Evolution Race
Standalone data terminals must evolve if they are to continue to have value for traders in the face of growing usage of direct datafeeds to power algorithmic trading and pricing applications, according to participants on a panel dubbed "Is the terminal…
StatPro launches new product to reduce credit risk
StatPro, the London-based provider of buy-side portfolio analytics, risk management and data systems, has released the latest version of its flagship risk management product.
Derivatives altering buy-side portfolio system requirements
The market for buy-side portfolio systems is expected to total $2.67 billion by 2010 as Asian and European-based buy-side firms' operational and technology requirements increase, and as managers generally extend their use of over-the-counter derivative…
Marked to mayhem. Stewart Eisenhart takes a fresh look at the perennially challenging issues of pricing and valuations on the buy side, arguing that these functions have become all the more crucial to fund managers in the wake of the US sub-prime mortgage
Hitting bottom is never pleasant. Credit market participants – buy side and otherwise – are finding that out as the US sub-prime mortgage sector continues its wholly predictable but no less dramatic collapse. Volatility has skyrocketed, liquidity is…
Moxy upgrade expands support for high net-worth managers
Advent Software has developed an upgraded version of its Moxy buy-side order management sys-tem, Moxy 6.0, with enhancements targeting operational requirements of institutional and high net-worth asset managers.