Fidessa LatentZero’s Sentinel has taken the top prize as the best compliance solution at the Buy-Side Technology Awards. It was joined by Fidessa LatentZero’s EMS Workstation, which saw off strong competition in a crowded field ...
Published: Buy-Side Technology, Dec 2008
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Hedge funds have always had an interesting and diverse relationship with IT: from mission-critical, proprietary systems and prime broker-sourced systems to creating ad hoc spreadsheets – or ignoring IT altogether ...
Published: HedgeWeek Innovations Report, Nov 2008
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The last few years have seen a significant surge in popularity for derivatives. Where once they were found primarily in the portfolios of a few, select hedge funds, they are now widely adopted by more mainstream investors ...
Published: Institutional Investor - A Guide To Multi-Asset Trading Strategies, Fall 2008
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A low-inflation environment and an ageing population proved to be a fatal combination for pure-play bond and equity portfolios – the returns expected by corporate investors simply did not materialise. And so the days of target-based ...
Published: Buy-Side Technology, Nov 2008
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Hedge funds have always had an interesting and diverse relationship with IT. DMA started life at stat arb specialists, for example. Others will invest in strategy-critical, proprietary systems, while at the other end of the scale ...
Published: The Hedge Fund Journal Technology Insight, Oct 2008
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By: Peter John - Derivatives Product Manager
Perfectly placed to capitalise on China’s swelling economy, Hong Kong’s fund industry has evolved rapidly. HFMWeek spoke to those in the know about how it is reacting to current market pressures ...
Published: HFM Week, Oct 2008
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Buyside firms have not always been technological innovators but, says Kevin Chapman, head trader at Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management, that is beginning to change ...
Published: Global Investor, Sept 2008
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Mark Vink proposes the key questions any company looking to buy and implement that a new OMS system should ask of the vendors they are evaluating ...
Published: FIX Global, Sept 2008
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Although the recent crisis in the global banking system has cut total shareholder value by at least US$100bn, hedge funds have largely emerged from the rubble in robust shape. According to reliable estimates, hedge funds have ...
Interviewed: Peter John - Derivatives Product Manager
Published: Euromoney Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments Handbook, Sept 2008
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While it was fashionable twelve months ago to debate whether any of the buy-side EMSs would move into the OMS space and threaten OMS vendors, the discussion has moved on. The accepted position now is that of the OMS and EMS ...
Interviewed: Richard Jones, CEO
Published: Traders, Aug 2008
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After 85 years at the heart of Wall Street, Bear Stearns is no more. But even before the highest profile and most celebrated casualty of the credit crunch closed its doors, the inevitable questions about who was next in line were ...
Interviewed: Peter John - Derivatives Product Manager
Published: Buy-Side Technology, June 2008
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Among the seemingly endless supply of depressing results, and the atmosphere of general gloom, a few glimmers of light still shine. Where the global banking system has managed so far to wipe at least US$100bn from shareholder value ...
Published: Hedge Fund Manager (HFM) Week, Hong Kong Special Report, June 2008
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The need to deploy specialist technology solutions is one of the operational imperatives which hedge funds have been waking up to recently. On the transactional side of the business, this has led to a quest for more efficient market access ...
Published: The Hedge Fund Journal, June 2008
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The credit crunch has exposed flaws in the way hedge funds transact with their prime brokers. Michelle Price reports how the relationship will change going forward ...
Interviewed: Richard Jones
Published: The Banker, May 2008
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The buzz last year was all about convergence of order management and execution management systems. Since then, vendors have been working hard to integrate their systems or build new execution functionality into their existing ...
Interviewed: Dan Watkins, CEO North America
Published: Waters, June 2008
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Securities Industry News special reports editor Carol E. Curtis recently spoke with chief executive Richard Jones about Fidessa LatentZero's expansion into the hedge fund business, the changing face of hedge fund technology and ...
Published: SIN, April 2008
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With $15 billion assets under management, San Diego based Nicholas Applegate Capital Management (NACM) is somewhat dwarfed by Allianz Global Investors, the asset management giant that acquired it in 2001. But in its 24 years of ...
Published: Waters, April 2008
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Buy-side front-office software provider Fidessa LatentZero has partnered with Pipeline Trading Systems LLC to enable users of its Minerva OEMS [order and execution management systems] to achieve institutional trading efficiencies .. more »
Published: Global Investment Technology, Feb 2008
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Nicholas Applegate Capital Management (NACM) had been using a proprietary compliance engine for its investment management operations, but found it needed to set and keep track of more rules than before. After signing on to use ...
Published: Global Investment Technology, Feb 2008
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Fidessa LatentZero’s partnership with Pipeline Trading Systems LLC will give buy-side traders the ability to match up large block trading opportunities in Pipeline ATS with orders on their blotter without risking information ...
Interviewed: Fred Federspiel, president of Pipeline Systems by Ivy Schmerken
Published: Advanced Trading Online, Jan 2008
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Brian Mitchell, head of dealing and portfolio control at Baring Asset Management, is proof you don't need an Oxford or MIT education to rise through the ranks. In his interview with Victor Anderson, he talks about the ...
Interviewed: Victor Anderson
Published: Buy-Side Technology, Jan 2008
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