This month’s top stories
Made to measure
Gone are the days of buy-side firms implementing broker-developed algorithmic trading tools without the ability to question their underlying assumptions. Perhaps more crucially, the ability to tailor those algorithms to more accurately reflect changing market conditions has become crucial to their success. Stewart Eisenhart reportsPerformance precedents
Performance measurement, has in recent years moved into the front office, as buy-side firms look to integrate performance into a single, integrated platform. This move has been accompanied by compressed reporting timeframes and the emergence of risk as another variable. By Victor Anderson
This month's free news stories
Spotlight
Arun Sarwal was recently named chief executive of DST Global Solutions’ investment management solutions division. He will oversee three areas: asset servicing and investment accounting; data management and analytics; and distribution platforms. Interview by Stewart Eisenhart
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Big interview
Betsy Anderson, Ignis Asset Management’s head of centralised dealing, has built up an enviable dealing operation that owes much of its development to its underlying technology and her keenness to speak to other buy-side practitioners about their technology use. Interview by Victor Anderson
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Special report
Market volatility, counterparty risk and other issues are posing significant challenges to buy-side equity traders at the same time that their brokers are having to rethink their own business models. A new Tabb Group report, Equity trading in transition: New business models for a brave new world, outlines both current difficulties facing buy- and sell-side traders and future bright spots. Stewart Eisenhart reports
Open platform
It wasn’t long ago that the quality and reliability of an asset manager’s research was contingent to a large degree on its sell-side relationships. But the traditional buy side-sell side interaction has changed in recent years on both sides of the Atlantic resulting in investment managers being forced to implement more automated data handling techniques. By Advent Software’s Mark Rice
Product profile
Client reporting is not new to the buy side by any means, but compared to the processes typically residing in the front office, it has historically been overlooked as a key area of the fund management business. But that has changed over the past two years as investors have come to expect greater levels of transparency and reduced reporting timeframes from their money managers. London-based Kurtosys is benefiting from this increased scrutiny. By Victor Anderson
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