Trading Tech
The Funding Challenge
Amid the financial crisis, it's all about the challenge of budgets, the funding of projects and realizing rapid economic benefits. But data management professionals remain convinced data projects will not be sidestepped. Carla Mangado explores how firms…
Time to Shine
As recession hits home, with images of snaking queues outside job centres on the evening news, there is growing pressure on job-seekers to stand out and prove return on investment. Tine Thoresen speaks to three leading data management consultants about…
Get it Right the First Time Around
Firms with effective data management practices will be better suited to adhere to coming Gips requirements, say Eagle Investment Systems' Joseph McDonagh and Danielle Newland
A New Breed of Regulators
The market turmoil has resulted in widespread criticism of financial regulation, begging the question if there is room for other institutions to take a more active role in the regulatory landscape. Carla Mangado explores the potential implications of a…
Celent anticipates 20% decline in hedge fund IT spending
Hedge funds and funds of hedge funds will reduce their technology spending by more than 20% during 2009 as the industry continues its unprecedented contraction. A new Celent report expects that technology initiatives for the near term will entail…
CSAs set for dramatic change
The demise of Lehman Brothers in September last year was a wake-up call to asset managers and other investors that the single-broker aggregator model for managing commission sharing agreements (CSAs) has its flaws. Reliance on a single equity broker to…
Born to perform
Since its inception just under nine years ago, BI-SAM has been quietly going about its business focusing on performance and attribution, risk, and reporting functions for buy-side firms. It is therefore no surprise that the Paris-based vendor has added…
Contango Capital Advisors migrates to hosted Eagle data management platform
Contango Capital Advisors, a California-based wealth management unit of Zions Bancorporation, has migrated from an installed version of Eagle Investment Systems' data management and reporting platform to Eagle Access, the vendor's ASP offering covering…
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).
Coming of age
John Comerford spent many years on the buy side in a variety of roles relating to trading, technology, and portfolio management, before he jumped ship to join Nomura and then Instinet, where he is now global head of trading research, based in San…
PG Capital Management goes live on Advent ABOS platform
PG Capital Management, a Washington, DC-based manager serving high-net-worth clients, is live on Advent Software's Advent Back Office Service (ABOS) for hosted back-office and data management capabilities, allowing PG Capital to focus more on its client…