Buy-Side Technology/News
Thomson Reuters expands news analytics
Thomson Reuters has unveiled a machine-readable news offering allowing clients to incorporate news into their trading and risk management strategies. The product, NewsScope Event Indices (NEI), is targeted at hedge funds and investment banks pursuing…
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…
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…
Thomson Reuters fights fragmentation
Thomson Reuters last month unveiled two new initiatives to tackle the fragmentation of market data that has taken hold in Europ-ean markets since the introduction of Mifid in November 2007.
Month in Numbers
"That's happened pre- and post-Amaranth, and it's been big hedge fund shops posting losses as well as small ones. Have they learned from Amaranth? Of course not"