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Pressure has been mounting for financial services firms to digitally transform for years, as significant inefficiencies in terms of operations and technology persist. In 2021, we have reached a threshold point: sustained fee pressure, regulatory complexities, a new wave of cybersecurity risks and a desperate need for cost transformation are forc
02 September 2021 /security /wealth
Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems
Given the extreme market volatility and disruptions to the economy caused by the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, asset managers using factor-based investment strategies have seen their risk exposures shift in unexpected ways. At the same time, factor investing has grown as an approach to screening stocks based on the attributes that drive risk and...
14 May 2020 /regulation /markets
Fundamental investment managers are mining alternative data, but some worry that the same data sets have been sold to too many people and the strategies may be overcrowded. Experts at a recent panel discussion on alternative data brought some clarity to how alternative data is categorized and what are the big challenges faced by fundamental asset m...
18 April 2019
With the growth in sustainable investing, there’s been a surge in data on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors over the past few years. Demand for ESG data is rising as asset managers look to incorporate ESG factors such as low-carbon emissions or gender diversity on boards into their investment analysis and decision-making processes....
05 November 2018 /ai
Over the past few weeks we have seen the global markets go wild and despite the fact that everything appears to have calmed down, one has to wonder, what’s coming next? What was particularly disturbing were the reports that many of the trading systems were ‘unable to cope’ with the recent turmoil. But let’s be honest, it’s exciting times like th...
23 February 2018
The explosion of alternative data sources, such as satellite images, sentiment analysis, and geolocation data, is having a profound impact on the field of quantitative investing. Analyzing torrents of unstructured data requires sophisticated tools and technology, and this leads to opportunities as well as challenges. Alongside the boom in alternati...
25 January 2018 /ai
I am usually surprised by the almost manic attention given to alpha these days. That may sound trite in present financial circumstances, although volatility in the markets is the mother of invention and therefore competitive alpha. But it seems to me that scratching about in the field for a few basis points to outstrip your competitor's alpha pe...
13 March 2008 /sibos /wholesale
Richard Baker, Chief Executive of the Managed Funds Association and a former Senator, has recently pronounced, "It's wrong to say hedge funds are lightly regulated...you have vice of regulatory constraint, one from the investor side, and one from the lender side". So perhaps hedge funds will escape the threat of regulation, because ot...
10 March 2008
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