Portfolio management
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.
It does what it says on the tin
SuperDerivatives has been synonymous with derivatives pricing – most specifically options pricing – since its inception some seven years ago. But is was the launch of SD Funds in March this year that positioned the London-based vendor as one of the…
A shift in the balance of power
Hedge funds, especially start-ups, operate at a huge disadvantage. Compared with larger, better established asset managers, small hedge funds do not have access to the appropriate tools to manage their trading operations. This is because, as a start-up,…
The Data Challenges of Valuing Complex Securities
How to value growing numbers of increasingly complex fixed-income securities came under discussion at a panel discussion hosted recently by Standard & Poor's. Panelists debated the data inputs required as well as which models to employ to generate the…
Spotlight on Ben Jackson
Stewart Eisenhart speaks with Ben Jackson, SunGard Kiodex’s recently appointed chief operating officer, about his plans for the firm’s commodities trading platform.
Riding the risk
The US hedge fund industry had a close call last month when the President's Working Group on Financial Markets decided that while greater oversight of hedge funds was needed, no new regulations would be imposed on this growing and sizeable portion of the…
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FinAnalytica upgrades FoHF platform
FinAnalytica, a Seattle-based provider of risk management and portfolio construction analytics based on statistical finance methodologies, has released CognityFoF version 2.7. According to the vendor, buy-side users will now have their "own unique…
Thomson Builds One for Hedge Funds
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