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South African asset manager renews with SunGard
Cadiz African Harvest Asset Management (CAHAM), a Cape Town-based asset manager with ZAR50 billion ($7.3 billion) of assets under management, has renewed its contract with SunGard for the Asset Arena portfolio management, trading and compliance system.
Swedish fund manager signs with Advent as business expands
Catella Asset Management, a Stockholm-based buy-side firm with about $5 billion in institutional and private client assets under management, has gone live with Advent Software's Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX) and Advent Moxy order management…
Taking the random route
Traditional ways of measuring investment skill range from the straightforward (looking at the portfolio’s performance relative to the rest of the market over the last one, five and 10 years) to the quant-driven, through to the full machinery of…
Editor’s Letter: Concentrating on the little things
Most of you are no-doubt aware that the IRB 2007 Rugby World Cup has just finished. This is somewhat fortuitous as it affords me the opportunity to indulge my journalistic passion of sports commentary/analysis, the area of journalism on which I cut my…
Algo sees positive buy-side returns
Algorithmics, the Toronto-based provider of financial risk management technology, held its annual ARC (Algo Risk Conference) gathering in Cannes, southern France at the end of September.
Ready, steady, bid
BidRoute, an automated auction service for price discovery in portfolio trading that has been in development since late 2006, is set to go at the start of November.
Beauchamp
Stuart Farr, New York-based chief executive of Linedata Services' Beauchamp Hedge Fund Solutions, wasn't able to attend BST 's roundtable, although in a phone interview conducted shortly after the event he discussed a number of the same issues with…
Spotlight on Andrew Baker
The October issue of Buy-Side Technology included the news that Andrew Baker, former COO at Schroder Investment Management, had joined the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) as deputy chief-executive. He recently explained to Stewart…
Trusco upgrades to Advent APX for enhanced automation
Trusco Capital Management, an Atlanta-based registered investment advisor subsidiary of SunTrust Banks with $73 billion under management, has implemented Advent Software's Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX) platform for integrated portfolio and client…
Gentlemen, Start Your Engines
Now that the E.U.'s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) launch date is upon us, the race into the 21st century financial markets appears as if it will begin with a cautious start rather than a frantic land rush. Most firms seem to be…
CQG Adds Icap Asia Data
Denver, Colo.-based data and analytics provider CQG is to expand the range of contributed data it carries from interdealer broker Icap, under the terms of a deal between the two for multi-asset-class data from Asian markets, Inside Market Data has…
Vhayu Melds Real-time, Historical Data
California-based tick processing software vendor Vhayu will this week announce version 2.0 of its Velocity Order Book Analyzer, which combines real-time and historical market data analysis and storage capabilities for building and recreating current or…
Activ Expands Asia-Pacific Direct Feeds
Low-latency data and technology vendor Activ Financial is increasing its line-up of data from Asia-Pacific exchanges, in response to demand for low-latency data from trading firms in the region.
Study: Firms Not Ready to Compete in Mifid
LONDON—Financial firms have spent 20 to 25 percent less than initial estimates on preparation for the E.U.’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid), concludes research by IT services provider Atos Origin.
Downtime Costs Firms Over $10K per Hour
LONDON—When an internally developed system fails, U.K. banks and financial firms can expect to pay over $10,000 per hour for the downtime, according to a study published by IT market research firm Vanson Bourne and sponsored by business service…
Bourse, Bank JV to Launch SmartPool MTF
LONDON—NYSE Euronext, along with French bank BNP Paribas and London-headquartered HSBC, have entered into a joint venture to launch a multilateral trading facility (MTF), dubbed Project SmartPool, sometime in the second quarter of 2008, say officials.
FutureTrade Links to Emerging Markets
NEW YORK—Clients of electronic agency brokerage FutureTrade should be able to access the Asian and Latin American markets within weeks, brokerage officials tell DWT .
Wall Street Passes Pandemic Test
NEW YORK—The U.S. securities industry’s emergency preparedness has paid off, according to preliminary results of a three-week influenza pandemic test sponsored jointly by U.S. regulators and financial firms.