Trading Tech
Marked to mayhem. Stewart Eisenhart takes a fresh look at the perennially challenging issues of pricing and valuations on the buy side, arguing that these functions have become all the more crucial to fund managers in the wake of the US sub-prime mortgage
Hitting bottom is never pleasant. Credit market participants – buy side and otherwise – are finding that out as the US sub-prime mortgage sector continues its wholly predictable but no less dramatic collapse. Volatility has skyrocketed, liquidity is…
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.
Business standards time
Imagine that tomorrow there were no traffic laws. No speed limits, no need to signal for your turns, no right of way and no reason to stop you from drinking and driving. For our readers in New York, let's abolish the 'conceal and carry' laws for handguns…
Deutsche's technology head honcho
Victor Anderson initially met Peter Kelso, DWS Investments' managing director, at this year's SunGard Europa conference in Italy. Later, in a phone interview, Kelso talks about the changes his organisation is currently going through, his technology…
Are we there yet?
Are we there yet? Simon Morris and Ash Saluja, partners at CMS Cameron McKenna, look at Mifid and its various permutations for buy-side organisations from a legal perspective.
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…
Time with the traders – Joel Clark and photographer Robert Aberman spend the morning with the trading team at AXA Investment Management in London.
For the small group of traders at AXA Investment Managers in London the expectation to perform is intense, but as Joel Clark discovers, the quiet times can be just as demanding as the pressure that goes with the territory. Photos by Robert Aberman
Bandwidth's silver bullet
The expectations of regulators and investors of best execution are forcing broker/dealers on both sides of the Atlantic to evaluate their connectivity and supporting infrastructure. John Panzica argues that ethernet technology has the potential to…
Thinning the herd
War isn't pretty and neither, so it seems, is running a leveraged investment strategy with significant credit exposures in the face of a precipitous mortgage market downturn. The list of hedge fund casualties continues to climb in the wake of the US sub…
Savvis Offers Direct Amex Feed
Network and hosting provider Savvis has rolled out a low-latency Ethernet connectivity service to access exchange market data and has incorporated the depth-of-book feed from Amex into the offering.
Coral8 Further Enhances Query Mechanism
California-based event processing engine provider Coral8 is enhancing its query writing interface, providing new options for receiving alerts and incorporating a new charting package in the latest release of its Coral8 Engine, officials tell Inside…
OMX, Verizon Enter Outsourcing Talks
STOCKHOLM & NEW YORK—Swedish exchange operator and technology vendor OMX Group plans to outsource its external network operations and datacenter management and has began partner discussion with U.S. telcom provider Verizon, OMX officials announced last…
SunGard to Link Brass, MicroHedge
NEW YORK—Users of SunGard's sell-side equities order management system (OMS) Brass now have the capability to trade options, routed from the vendor's options-trading product, MicroHedge from a single view, DWT has learned.
144A Trading Platforms Gain Ground
NEW YORK—With the rise of the popularity of private placements, several banks and one exchange have launched, or are in the process of launching, electronic venues to trade securities under Rule 144A of the U.S. Securities Act.