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Olympia takes Advent Geneva for automated administration
The Olympia Capital Companies, a hedge fund administration service provider with more than $50 billion under administration, has implemented Advent Software's Geneva accounting system and Partner investor servicing platform to automate operations across…
You couldn't make this up
Heard the one about the hedge fund doing its Monte Carlo simulations on 300 PlayStation 2s bolted together? No? That's not surprising – they closed their doors for business last week and handed back whatever was left of their investors' capital. Actually…
Trends out of TradeTech
TradeTech, one of the best-attended annual technology gatherings of the year, set out to address a number of current buy-side issues – dark liquidity, best execution, algorithmic trading, transaction cost analysis, Mifid, and the underlying technologies…
Transaction cost analysis – Joel Clark reports that currently only equities are meaningfully supported by the handful of technology vendors active in this space, although TCA support for fixed-income instruments is just around the corner.
Buy-side traders are increasingly asking their employers to make new investments in applications designed to measure transaction cost analysis (TCA). The technology has made big advances in recent years, driven by the global demand for proof of best…
Made to morph
Like a growing number of technologies and services offered by the independent software vendor community, Xenomorph's origins can be traced back to the sell side, where applications were developed in response to acute business needs. But since its…
Complexity driving automation
The global investment management industry is continually evolving in terms of sophistication and the complexity of instruments traded by buy-side firms. This, in turn, is driving the development of back-office technologies designed to process these…
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,…
History repeating itself
Augustus Asset Managers, the London-based hedge fund manager, was spawned after a management buy-out of Julius Baer Investments in January this year. Victor Anderson speaks with Sonal Amin, head of information systems at Augustus, about the changes she…
Spotlight on Michael Green
Michael Green, recently installed head of ITG’s European operations, speaks with Stewart Eisenhart about what to expect from the vendor in the coming months as ITG looks to expand its footprint in the European buy-side market
GL Trade's new Reg NMS service
GL Trade, the Paris-based trading technology and service provider, is set to unveil a number of new features for its order management system (OMS) and new applications designed to address Regulation NMS issues in the US markets.