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Man Overrides Machine To Tackle Low Bond Yield Risk With government bonds from so-called "safe" countries tumbling, hedge funds are recalibrating their computer models.News
- Man Overrides Machine To Tackle Low Bond Yield Risk
- JPMorgan's "Whale" Lures Hedge-Fund Sharks
- Emerging Market Private Equity Deals Decline in First Half
- Hedge Fund Tiger Asia To Return Investor Money
- Flush European Share Investors Batten Down Hatches
- Alaska: The Next Libor Frontier?
- US Hedge Funds Experience Stormy July
- Japan Mutual Funds See Slower Inflows As Shares Dip
COMMENTARY
- Would Going Back to Simpler Times Re-Inflate the Equities Market?
- Regulatory and Technological Changes: How to Create Competitive Advantages in the Derivatives Markets
- The Time Has Come for Options Dark Pools
- After Knight Capital's Failed Gambit, Algo Trading Needs a Moat
- Knight Capital's Train Wreck and the Mismanagement of Software
- Knight Capital's Surprise $7 Billion Bounty
- Cash-Strapped Scranton Looks to Hedge Fund For Financing
- Knight's Chances of Survival 50/50
Managing the Desk
Emerging Market Private Equity Deals Decline in First HalfPrivate
equity funds that invest in emerging markets may have raised similar
amounts of cash in the first half of 2012 than a year earlier, but they
used less of it, the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association said on
Tuesday.
Regulation
Would Going Back to Simpler Times Re-Inflate the Equities Market?Many
market participants are saying we need to go back to simpler times,
when spreads were wider, trading was slower, markets were simpler,
research was more prevalent, and capital was more pervasive. But would
that really fix the equity markets?
- U.S. Banks Told to Make Plans for Preventing Collapse
- Cash-Strapped Scranton Looks to Hedge Fund For Financing
- SEC's Schapiro: Circuit Breakers Contained Knight Capital Damage
- Capital Rules Drive Shifts in Fixed Income Trading
- Bernanke, Geithner Response to Libor Scandal Rings Hollow
- Barclays Dragged Into New Probe After Libor Blow
Data & Infrastructure
Knight Capital's Train Wreck and the Mismanagement of SoftwareThe
ensuing fallout from Knight Capital Group's errant trade last week has
sparked arguments that automated trading software is intrinsically
unreliable, but such logic is faulty.
- BAML Beefs Up Transaction Services Team with Two Appointments
- NYC's Top Hedge Funds Have 25 PCT Less in AUM than 2007
- Markit Unveils Patent Data for Traders, Portfolio Managers
- Rising HFT Volumes in Asia Push SBI Securities to OneTick
- Will Fix Protocol's Updated Risk Guidelines Make the Markets More Stable?
Exchanges/ECNs
FIX Protocol Risk Checks Take Aim at Fat Finger Trades, Errant OrdersWith
trading strategies becoming increasingly complex, FIX Protocol Limited
is taking aim at errant orders and fat-finger trades with an updated set
of guidelines for brokers and their buy-side clients.
Derivatives
Regulatory and Technological Changes: How to Create Competitive Advantages in the Derivatives MarketsRestructuring
of the derivatives markets will create new revenue opportunities for
those firms that have prepared and niche opportunities for new
participants.
Quant
Former Goldman Quant Breaks Down Why She Joined OccupyAlexis
Goldstein, who worked as a quant strategist at Goldman Sachs, Deutsche
Bank and Merrill Lynch, breaks down why she ditched the finance world
for the Occupy Wall Street movement.
EMS/OMS
ITG Integrates BrightWire Real-Time News Into Triton EMSThe firm says the news engine goes a step further than traditional business news services.