Buy-Side Technology/Special
Dark executions in Europe remain modest
European markets, still coming to terms with the impacts of Mifid, have yet to make substantial use of dark pools as liquidity continues to fragment. Dark-pool executions in the UK and on the Continent are nonetheless expected to increase slowly but…
Buy-side views mixed on tech budgeting for 2010
Traditional asset managers and hedge funds indicate cautiously optimistic outlooks for 2010, according to a new survey by Aite Group. But those attitudes won't necessarily translate into greater investments in technology. Even though the worst of the…
Connect to control
When AQR Capital Management, the $20 billion quantitative hedge fund and investment manager based in Greenwich, Connecticut, decided to upgrade its trade-matching processes, it had no other vendor than Omgeo in mind; and with Omgeo having developed a…
Everything in its right place
What a difference a year makes. The 2008 TradeTech West conference in San Francisco took place just days after the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the heralding of the global credit crisis. Projections of shoestring technology budgets, major overhauls of…
Changing equity markets test buy-side traders
Market volatility, counterparty risk and other issues are posing significant challenges to buy-side equity traders at the same time that their brokers are having to rethink their own business models. A new Tabb Group report, Equity trading in transition:…
Real-time risk: a mandate for trading in volatile markets
Not long ago financial services firms had to run their Monte Carlo simulations overnight. But with the advent of faster processors and new technology, firms can now manage their risk in real time or near to real time. Buy-Side Technology and DWT hosted a…
Pricing priorities
After the global credit crisis exposed weaknesses in methods investment managers and other financial institutions employ to price and assess the risks in their portfolios, a new Aite Group report predicts firms will double their technology spending on…
Supplementary solution
When Metzler Asset Management opted to implement the Charles River IMS, it chose to supplement its existing front-office applications with the system, rather than use it as a replacement. For an asset manager with an historically strong in-house bias,…
Executive action
Cynics would have argued that the buy and sell side would be too busy looking for the green shoots of economic recovery to attend the July 1 Best Execution 2009 (London) event, hosted by Buy-Side Technology and DWT. But an impressive turnout on the year…
Texas endowment fund opts for general overhaul
When the time came for Austin-based endowment manager Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust Company (TTSTC) to revamp its allocation process for alternative investment vehicles, a more robust risk management platform had to be part of the package. But rather…
Slew of regulations to impact asset and hedge fund managers
With efforts to set new regulatory structures in place for the financial services industry underway on multiple fronts, the impact on buy-side firms' technologies and operations will be profound and long-lasting, says a recent TowerGroup report. By…
Euro traders struggling with liquidity sourcing
A new Tabb Group report finds that buy-side equity traders in the UK and Europe have encountered greater challenges over the past year sourcing liquidity within new market structures. At the same time, heightened awareness of counterparty risk has begun…
Spotlight trained on OTC pricing platforms
A new Celent Communications report evaluating providers of pricing tools for OTC derivatives and structured products finds that vendors have stepped up efforts to support clients under pressure from investors and regulators for more transparent and…
Tackling Transparency
It goes without saying that derivatives pricing has been one of the most acute and ever-present challenges facing buy-side firms of all sizes since the start of the new Millennium, and if the slew of recent derivatives research is anything to go by, buy…
Fund investor accounting technology market set to contract
In the face of more cautious IT budgeting across the hedge fund and fund of funds industries, the market for investor accounting platforms will shrink over the next two years as managers make do with their existing infrastructures. A new Celent…
CEP - Strategic or tactical weapon?
Complex event processing (CEP) technology has existed in the capital markets for some time, but it has gained traction primarily in the algorithmic trading space. Today, CEP technology that analyses large quantities of streaming data in real time has a…
European wealth management technology providers adjusting to crisis
Although less affected by tumultuous financial market conditions than other sectors of the buy-side industry, the European wealth management arena has had its share of adjustments in the face of challenging conditions, requiring vendors to hone their…
Institutional client reporting platforms set for wider uptake
Traditional asset managers and hedge funds will increase spending on client reporting platforms in coming years in order to address requirements from institutional investors and regulators for greater disclosure regarding investment strategies,…
Asian buy-side firms move towards more advanced trading technologies
With assets under management topping $8 trillion as of 2007, the Asian and Australian traditional asset management and hedge fund industries present technology providers with major expansion opportunities, but the drive to increase adoption of electronic…
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…