Trading Tech

South African asset manager renews with SunGard

Cadiz African Harvest Asset Management (CAHAM), a Cape Town-based asset manager with ZAR50 billion ($7.3 billion) of assets under management, has renewed its contract with SunGard for the Asset Arena portfolio management, trading and compliance system.

Taking the random route

Traditional ways of measuring investment skill range from the straightforward (looking at the portfolio’s performance relative to the rest of the market over the last one, five and 10 years) to the quant-driven, through to the full machinery of…

Editor’s Letter: Concentrating on the little things

Most of you are no-doubt aware that the IRB 2007 Rugby World Cup has just finished. This is somewhat fortuitous as it affords me the opportunity to indulge my journalistic passion of sports commentary/analysis, the area of journalism on which I cut my…

Algo sees positive buy-side returns

Algorithmics, the Toronto-based provider of financial risk management technology, held its annual ARC (Algo Risk Conference) gathering in Cannes, southern France at the end of September.

Ready, steady, bid

BidRoute, an automated auction service for price discovery in portfolio trading that has been in development since late 2006, is set to go at the start of November.

Beauchamp

Stuart Farr, New York-based chief executive of Linedata Services' Beauchamp Hedge Fund Solutions, wasn't able to attend BST 's roundtable, although in a phone interview conducted shortly after the event he discussed a number of the same issues with…

Spotlight on Andrew Baker

The October issue of Buy-Side Technology included the news that Andrew Baker, former COO at Schroder Investment Management, had joined the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) as deputy chief-executive. He recently explained to Stewart…

Trusco upgrades to Advent APX for enhanced automation

Trusco Capital Management, an Atlanta-based registered investment advisor subsidiary of SunTrust Banks with $73 billion under management, has implemented Advent Software's Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX) platform for integrated portfolio and client…

Gentlemen, Start Your Engines

Now that the E.U.'s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) launch date is upon us, the race into the 21st century financial markets appears as if it will begin with a cautious start rather than a frantic land rush. Most firms seem to be…

CQG Adds Icap Asia Data

Denver, Colo.-based data and analytics provider CQG is to expand the range of contributed data it carries from interdealer broker Icap, under the terms of a deal between the two for multi-asset-class data from Asian markets, Inside Market Data has…

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