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Data-driven decisions
Quantitative techniques are increasingly becoming a major component of equity-based investment products for money managers of all sizes and styles. Benefiting from a quantitative methodology, however, requires a comprehensive strategy and technology…
You don't want to get this one wrong
Selecting your risk management platform is not a decision you want to get wrong, says Risk Control's John Lewis
The Impact of Reg NMS on Market Data
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Handling the Market Data Flood: Sandbags or Stilts?
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FASB Rules Increase Value of Trade Data
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XBRL's Reporting Revolution
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Making Headlines
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OTC derivatives: innovation at a price
This year is likely to see the increased use of credit derivatives by buy-side institutions as traditional asset managers and hedge funds alike broaden their search for alpha. But as Jos Stoop points out, the back-office processing of these instruments…
OMS Orderly conduct
ITG's Michael Roberts assesses the crucial role OMSs play in buy-side firms' execution capabilities
Moving Toward a Real-Time World
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The changing world of hedge fund technology
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So Many Products, So Little Time
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Europe's M&A Frenzy
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Can’t hedge funds and corporations just get along?
Managing investor relations has become a crucial aspect of the buy side, not least because of the levels of influence investors can exert under extreme circumstances. Thomson Financial’s Chris Schelling outlines the challenges facing corporations in…
The evolution of selective outsourcing for hedge funds
As the fast growing hedge fund sector delivers increasingly complex products and services, the selective outsourcing of non-core IT functions is becoming more attractive, especially to those organisations employing innovative technology to stay ahead of…
A new holy grail of application architecture?
There are many ways to build and deploy financial services applications, but is there one approach that offers both high performance and fast time-to-market, with limited risk? Could such an approach actually offer the end-user – traders, portfolio…
Changes in the European Fixed-Income World
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Pump up the volume
Spikes in market volume can anticipate market trend reversals and, with an adequate database of market volume history and real-time updates to identify spikes and compare them historically, can provide a low-risk, high-reward trading strategy. By…
Top tips for ASP selection
The ASP option has never been more applicable to the buy side as technology vendors continue to unveil new offerings or upgrade existing ones in what has become an keenly contested market. The downside to of all this activity is the sheer number of…