Buy-Side Technology/Feature
Consumers' perceptions and all that
Consumers' perceptions are their realities. That's one of the only marketing concepts I can recall from the marketing and management course I attended back in late nineties (notice how I refrained from using the word 'completed' in the context of that…
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…
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…
The single front-office platform: not only feasible - it's happening already
Eze Castle Software, the fifth participant in Buy-Side Technology 's integrated front-office roundtable, could not be present at the New York-hosted event due to logistical constraints. The Boston-based vendor therefore chose to participate in a 'virtual…
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…
Northern Trust signs with youDevise for FOHFs
Northern Trust, the Chicago-based provider of investment management and fund administration services, is to use youDevise's Hedge Information Provider (HIP) for the benefit of its fund of hedge funds (FOHFs) clients.
Chief operations officer, Cadiz African Harvest Asset Management
How did you get into the industry? I had always worked for corporates in strategy, finance, and technology, until my mid-forties when I joined a derivatives business. That was 10 years ago. I joined Cadiz 18 months later.
Adust or Bust When financial markets started heading south last summer, quantitative investment managers constituted the first wave of casualties. Various factors rendered these organisations especially vulnerable to market fluctuations, and with current
When financial markets started heading south last summer, quantitative investment managers constituted the first wave of casualties. Various factors rendered these organisations especially vulnerable to market fluctuations, and with current liquidity and…
A river runs through it
Getting buy-side user-firms to agree to talk about their use of technology and how it enables their business is notoriously difficult, which is why we jumped at the opportunity to speak with three Charles River clients - ING Investment Management,…
Brian Sentance
Chief executive officer, Xenomorph Software
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…