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Rise of the replicants – Duncan Wood scrutinises the recent emergence of bank-launched indexes and their attempts to replicate certain hedge fund strategies through quantitative, rules-based products.
Investment banks are upping their efforts to mimc hedge fund strategies through quantitative, rules-based products. A variety of indexes have emerged that claim to replicate the major hedge fund strategies, although some fund managers are sceptical of…
Making Global Warming Pay
The nice thing about capitalism is that no matter what happens, for better or worse, there is always a way to make a buck, or a quid, off it.
Paying for Mifid
Call me a cynic, but is there any firm in the industry that doesn't expect to write a large check to regulators once the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) goes into effect on Nov. 1?
Dark Pools on the March
When it comes to dark pools of liquidity in the equities world, the industry has had enough. Depending on which industry analyst's estimation you select, the more than 40 opaque trading venues are enough. I doubt that there were this many ECNs during the…
Making History
Today will go down as a major historical milestone. I'm not talking about commemorating 13 British colonies declaring independence, the merger of Upper and Lower Canada into the Dominion of Canada, or even independence of Argentina. No, today marks the…
Editor, Interrupted
I had planned to write this week’s letter on the U.S. market’s preparations for the July 9 Regulation NMS deadline, but when I learned that a car bomb plot was foiled outside our London office—which is located right in the middle of Haymarket—obviously,…
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Lessons to be learned
What appears to be the first major demonstration of how problematic pension fund managers' inclination to increase allocations to hedge funds are proving to be, is unfolding in the wake of last year's Amaranth Advisors collapse. By Stewart Eisenhart
Tapping technology – Joel Clark addresses the perennially topical issue of the ASP (application service provider) model across the buy side, and finds that it is not only end-user firms opting for the ASP route – Credit Suisse’s prime brokerage is already
Vendor-hosted technology, or 'apps-on-tap', is not a new phenomenon but it is a changing one. Gone are the days when ASP was confined to back-office technologies at funds on tight IT budgets; ASPs have permeated every facet of the buy side, so that only…
The scheming of the green
How do you know when an environmentalist is exaggerating about the dangers of climate change? Easy: their lips are moving. By Phil Albinus
CEP Gains Ground
Attending last week's Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's (Sifma's) technology management conference in midtown Manhattan, you couldn't help but notice the increased interest in complex event processing (CEP).
Let the Games Begin
This week, most North American financial technologists will descend on the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan for the annual rite of passage: the Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association's (Sifma's) Technology Management Conference and…
If Not Now, When?
A little over a month ago at the DWT conference in London, a panel consisting of technologists from a number of major investment banks proclaimed the death of direct market access (DMA).
Citi Takes Bats Trading Stake
NEW YORK—Global banking giant Citi has hedged its bets again for a post-Regulation NMS U.S. market by taking a minority interest in Kansas City, Mo.-headquartered Bats Trading, which runs the Bats ECN.