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Plimsoll takes Aegis EMS for enhanced forex trading
Plimsoll Capital, a New Jersey -based hedge fund manager trading in foreign exchange and structured product instruments, has implemented Aegis Software's AthenaTrader execution management system for its newly developed forex trading program, Armada.
Fulcrum goes live with SD-Revaluation for pricing
Fulcrum, a Bermuda-based hedge fund administrator with operations in Canada and London, has cont-racted SuperDerivatives to supply independent OTC options and credit derivatives pricing through the ven-dor's SD-Revaluation service.
Huber Portfolio rolls out Thomson Quantitative Analytics
Huber Portfolio AG, an Oberusel , Germany-based quantitative res-earch company, has installed Thomson Quantitative Analytics (TQA) to support its back-testing strategies.
Placemark takes Pyxis for mobile sales, data functions
Placemark Investments, a Dallas and Boston-based overlay manager with $7 billion from managed account sponsors, has implemented Pyxis Mobile's mWholesaler wireless application to align its sales and data management operations. Placemark, which pro-vides…
Martin Currie live on Fidessa LatentZero Trading Network
Martin Currie, the Scotland- based investment manager with £14.1 billion under management, has become the first buy-side organisation to go live on Fidessa LatentZero's Trading Network (LTN), which provides FIX connectivity to trading counterparties over…
It's been spotty, infrequent, inconsistent and potentially biased
TowerGroup's Matt Nelson is dismissive of current pricing methods across the buy side for hard-to-price debt instruments, which, he explains, are typically managed internally by organisations either using Excel models or broker-supplied quotes and not…