Social media networks are now “critical communications channels and sources of real-time data” for investment managers, presenting myriad opportunities – and potentially huge risks – to firms, and dramatically reshaping the way they trade portfolios, build investment ideas and communicate
IHS Markit has extended its Data Lake to support unstructured content using the latest natural language processing (NLP) technologies. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Vela, an independent provider of data and execution technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, is now offering execution services for US Equities and Equity Options.The new execution capabilities are available on Vela’s low-latency DMA Platform as well as its automated
Quincy Data has expanded its offering with the addition of US treasuries data, using sister company McKay Brothers’ microwave network to transport the data to Aurora, IL in under four milliseconds, the lowest latency available. Read the full story at
Style Analytics, a London and Boston based factor analysis firm that is now a part of Investment Metrics, has partnered with Australian-based asset consultant and research advisory firm, Foresight Analytics, to deliver decision insights, advice and direction to its myriad
The world has witnessed an unprecedented explosion of data over the last few years. Most of us will be familiar with the term Terabyte, which represents 1012 or 1 trillion bytes of data. But such is the data-drenched world in
Ayush Ansal, chief investment officer at the hedge fund, Crimson Black Capital, comments on the prospects of the UK leaving the EU without a deal…“With a No-Deal departure from the EU now arguably odds-on, the UK is heading for the
2021 will see an “acceleration of trends” across the hedge fund industry, according to Jack Inglis, CEO of the Alternative Investment Management Association, with the sector becoming more digitalised and more socially conscious, as managers play an “integral part” in
Digital asset investment products saw inflows of USD395 million despite a weak price environment, according to the latest CoinShares Digital Assets Flow report. The report reveals there were almost no outflows but highlights increasing hesitancy to invest among investors. To put
Northern Trust has paired up with Two Sigma to offer Venn, the quantitative investment specialist’s cloud-based analytics platform, to its clients.
