Editors letter
The cost of oblivion
What happened to the dream of starting a hedge fund with a few million dollars, a phone and a PC?
A case in point
Over the past several months, copious amounts of editorial ink have been devoted in this and other buy-side publications to the increasing interest of investment and hedge fund managers in execution management systems (EMS). Interest has, in turn, given…
A Mitt for Market Data?
Last week's column had a distinct baseball theme, with sporting analogies and quotes from the great Yogi Berra. This week, I'm continuing the theme—partly because I'm excited about the new season that's about to begin, and also because the game neatly…
On Deck in the Data Dugout
With the baseball season about to get under way in my adopted homeland, it's not surprising that I find many conversations about market data littered with sporting analogies. Why? Perhaps because, as anyone who has witnessed a good double- or even triple…
"Direct" Comparisons
Last week in this column, I compared the financial results of the big three listed real-time data vendors—Reuters, Thomson Financial and Interactive Data (minus Bloomberg, of course, which is privately held). One thing that became clear—apart from the…
Show Me the Money
The products from today's market data vendors allow all sorts of investment professionals to compare and contrast companies side-by-side. But how do the vendors themselves compare?
Quest for 'Best'
EDITORS LETTER
Riding the risk
The US hedge fund industry had a close call last month when the President's Working Group on Financial Markets decided that while greater oversight of hedge funds was needed, no new regulations would be imposed on this growing and sizeable portion of the…
The Road Ahead
EDITOR'S LETTER