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Fund accounting system spend to hit $500 million by 2012
The market for hedge fund portfolio accounting systems will grow from $394.4 million this year to a shade under $500 million in 2012 as managers seek to meet evolving regulatory requirements and develop more automated processes to handle derivatives and…
Wealth manager automates client billing with Advent Revenue Center
Parsec Financial Management, an Asheville, NC-based wealth management firm with more than $900 million under management, is live on Advent Software's client billing and revenue management system, Advent Revenue Center, to reduce reliance on manual back…
Jack of all trades
There is little doubt that large numbers of traditional asset managers and hedge funds have made the move to multi-asset trading in a near- or real-time environment but as Harrell Smith argues, not all supporting technologies were created equal
Turquoise ready to ruffle feathers
Turquoise, the pan-European share trading platform gearing up to launch later this year, is aiming to open up the European exchange market that, in Turquoise's view, has to date been the province of quasi-monopolies that pass on overly high costs to end…
The single, integrated front-office suite: Still a pipedream?
Early last month Buy-Side Technology hosted a roundtable in New York on single, integrated front-office platforms for the buy side. On the agenda were issues including the feasibility of such platforms and when the market is likely to see their emergence…
More off-book liquidity launched for Eurozone
Nyfix has announced the launch of Euro Millennium, a neutral dark liquidity pool for pan-European-listed cash equities. Currently, however, Euro Millennium only matches UK-listed equities, although according to Chris Smith, director of Nyfix…
Perfecting the lean and mean approach
Quintillion, a fifteen-month old fund administrator, had some tough technology decisions to make in order to keep the organisation as lean and mean as possible, while simultaneously providing its clients with the types of services typically enjoyed by…
Coastal move
Roger Hartley made the move from Putnam Lovell to Coast Asset Management some three months ago, landing the fund's chief operating officer role. He talks to Victor Anderson about his reasons for his sell-side- to buy-side move, the benefits of working…
Australian property manager to install DSTi HiPortfolio
Becton Investment Management, a Melbourne-based fund manager and subsidiary of Australian property developer Becton Property Group, is rolling out DST International's unit pricing platform. Becton has more than $2 billion under management, accounting for…
Swiss fund manager live on Imagine platform
Global Macro Investments (GMI), a Zürich-based hedge fund manager running inflation-linked and global macro funds, has implemented Imagine Software's Derivatives.com ASP platform for integrated portfolio and risk management capabilities.
A sense of Unity
Confluence is something of a veteran in the fund administration industry, having been founded in theearly 1990s. But it was the 2007 launch of Unity – the fi rm’s unifi ed data management platform for thefund administration industry – that has provided…
The bonny buy side
Edinburgh is home to a number of the largest asset management firms in the UK, where the focus on trading and technology is just as strong as in the larger financial centres. Joel Clark recently spent two days in the city and found a closely knit…
OTC derivatives still main challenge
According to recent research carried out by UK-based buy-side consultancy Morse, OTC derivatives and structured products are expected to present the most acute challenges facing UK-based buy-side firms over the next six months. The fortnight-long survey …