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Out of the Crisis
As market participants talk about "green shoots of recovery" and regulators push out suggestions for new directives based on lessons learned from the credit crunch, the focus is now on preparing for the changing conditions. Inside Reference Data gathers…
Out of the Crisis
As market participants talk about "green shoots of recovery" and regulators push out suggestions for new directives based on lessons learned from the credit crunch, the focus is now on preparing for the changing conditions. Inside Reference Data gathers…
Editor's Letter - Bureaucracy waiting to happen?
Dark pools have become such an integral and important part of the buy side that I guess it was only a matter of time before the regulators got stuck in. Last month, Mary Schapiro, chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), indicated that…
Satisfying scrutiny
Client reporting is not new to the buy side by any means, but compared to the processes typically residing in the front office, it has historically been overlooked as a key area of the fund management business. But that has changed over the past two…
Real-time risk: a mandate for trading in volatile markets
Not long ago financial services firms had to run their Monte Carlo simulations overnight. But with the advent of faster processors and new technology, firms can now manage their risk in real time or near to real time. Buy-Side Technology and DWT hosted a…
An overdue shake-up?
Ever since Buy-Side Technology and its forerunner, Hedge Fund & Investment Technology, first started covering dark pools more than a few years ago, we've consistently heard two major themes voiced by investment managers, consultants and vendors.
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…
Newton's law
Hedge fund manager Global Advisors recently relocated to Jersey after a decade operating out of Manhattan and London. Co-founder Rus Newton talks to Victor Anderson about the reasons for the move, life on the island, and the fund's use of proprietary…
Spotlight on Matthew Sullivan
Contravisory Investment Management, a Massachusetts-based asset manager with private and institutional investors, has promoted Matthew Sullivan to the role of chief compliance officer. He will retain his duties as senior vice-president, overseeing the…
Supplementary solution
When Metzler Asset Management opted to implement the Charles River IMS, it chose to supplement its existing front-office applications with the system, rather than use it as a replacement. For an asset manager with an historically strong in-house bias,…