This month’s top stories
Pricing imperfections
Allocating a definitive and transparent price to an asset for which no active market exists is a process mired in complexity and controversy. David Patrikarakos investigates the new generation of valuation models to address the pricing and valuations challenges of today’s stressed timesRisk in progress
For years, the notion of real-time risk management to better inform buy-side traders prior to making executions has proven elusive. And now that lessons learned from the ongoing global financial crisis continue to mount, the value of real-time pre-trade risk tools has become more apparent as managers seek to improve their risk approaches and processes. Stewart Eisenhart reports
This month's free news stories
Spotlight
FinAnalytica, a portfolio risk management software developer, has appointed David
Merrill as chief executive of a new management team. Merrill discusses efforts he’ll oversee to expand the firm’s market share beyond its traditional quantitative client base, as well as how financial market conditions have affected buy-side attitudes towards risk management functions. Interview by Stewart Eisenhart
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Big interview
James Caird Asset Management could not have launched in a more challenging environment when it opened its doors for business in July last year. Victor Anderson speaks with Olivia Erby about the ongoing challenges facing the fund, its reliance on technology in order to streamline the business, and the fund’s take on the optimum number of prime broker relationships
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Open platform
The credit crisis has uncovered the weaknesses of many risk management models and risk mitigation approaches. The rating agencies’ reputations have also come under the spotlight as their reputations and reliability have been called into question. Value-at-Risk is also receiving much criticism – some of it appropriate and well-considered, but not all, as Dario Cintioli explains
Right place right time
Client reporting has taken on new levels of significance over the past 18 months in the wake of the sub-prime fiasco and the ensuing contraction of the global financial services industry. Buy-side firms, arguably more so now than at any time in the past, are looking to the vendor community for applications to allow them to provide their institutional investors with greater levels of transparency, while also benefiting through efficiencies and scalability. Vermilion Software is one such provider in this increasingly competitive market. By Victor Anderson
Special report
A new Celent Communications report evaluating providers of pricing tools for OTC derivatives and structured products finds that vendors have stepped up efforts to support clients under pressure from investors and regulators for more transparent and accountable processes around these exotic instruments. Stewart Eisenhart reports
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