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Wall Street & Technology May 15, 2006 Larry Tabb	Strolling With My Alpha How does portable alpha impact the investment management business? This strategy turns portfolio managers into asset allocators. Instead of picking stocks, or companies, they pick inexpensive indices and choose expensive hedge funds.
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Wall Street & Technology March 14, 2008 Melanie Rodier	Dark Pools Change Transition Management Transition managers tend to trade large blocks of securities, making anonymity and information leakage important considerations. Strategies are included to leverage dark pools for their full benefit.
Wall Street & Technology January 23, 2007	Pondering Liquidity Management The next five years will see a considerable increase in order internalization as market pressures force banking firms to adopt the philosophy of liquidity management in order to stay competitive, a new research note speculates.
Wall Street & Technology May 17, 2006	Dipping Into Dark Pools of Liquidity As private crossing networks and related nonquoting sources of liquidity, known as "dark books," vie for market share among block traders, they are creating a highly fragmented market for block trading, according to a new report.
Wall Street & Technology January 23, 2007 Jessica Pallay	In the Search of Liquidity: The Time Is Now Now that Reg NMS is finally here, are firms ready to access 30 or more trading venues in their search for liquidity? After a year of investment in technology, firms need to demonstrate that their systems are up to the challenge.
Wall Street & Technology November 27, 2007 Robert Hegarty	Expect Continuous Change to Accelerate in 2008 Tower Group's Managing Director for Securities and Investments says to watch for the first major crash of an electronic trading system in 2008 due to volume, speed, and performance issues.
Financial Planning July 1, 2010 Craig L. Israelsen	Alpha and Beta Can a portfolio consisting entirely of beta-producing elements produce alpha? The answer is clearly yes.
Wall Street & Technology August 17, 2007 Richard Jones	Broker-Neutral OMS/EMS Solution Can Address Rapid Change In Investment Industry The investment industry is experiencing an increasingly rapid pace of change in both the asset classes under management and the way in which they are traded.
Wall Street & Technology July 26, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	The Buy Side Takes Charge Access to aggregators, crossing networks and algorithms is changing the buy-side trading desk.
Wall Street & Technology April 26, 2007 Larry Tabb	Today's Money Managers Are Leveraging Funds Into Alternative Investment Products The number of short positions will increase as more fund managers employ leverage. Traditional buy-side managers would need the technology and risk management expertise to effectively manage these more-leveraged positions.
Wall Street & Technology November 23, 2009 Greg MacSweeney	Dark Pools Seek Limited Transparency Dark pools provide investors with a valuable venue for trading large blocks of securities, but regulations may change the way market participants interact with anonymous trading venues in 2010.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Algorithmic Trading Buy-side firms are gravitating toward rules-based systems that are often supplied by brokers. These mathematical models analyze every quote and trade in the stock market, identify liquidity opportunities and turn that information into intelligent trading decisions.
Wall Street & Technology June 29, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Reinventing the Relationship Technology and regulatory scrutiny have placed pressure on the buy-side traders to figure out how much it is paying for executions.
Wall Street & Technology April 14, 2008 Larry Tabb	Opportunities Beckon Amid Economic Turmoil A shaky economy and the defibrillation of many fixed-income products provide fertile ground for automated trading, fixed-income ECNs and exchanges - as well as opportunities for those willing to take some calculated risk.
Wall Street & Technology June 21, 2004	Algo-Trading Meets Direct Access As buy-side firms take more control over executing orders, there is an increasing interest in algorithmic-trading strategies combined with direct-access trading platforms.
Financial Planning April 1, 2011 Suzanne McGee	Chasing Alpha With investment strategists and pundits predicting a long period of sluggish returns that may not make it out of the single digits, there is every reason for advisors to intensify their quest for alpha. But alpha is both hard to define and harder to find.
Wall Street & Technology April 15, 2008 Cory Levine	Quod Releases Solution for Buy-Side Execution Management Advanced Smart-Order Router uses the algorithms in Quod's sell-side solution to bring new levels of routing capabilities to the buy side, the vendor says.
Wall Street & Technology July 1, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	The New Sell-Side Trader: Execution Consultant Brokers are morphing into execution consultants to advise the buy side on selecting algorithms and measuring performance. But how will the sell side reinvent the institutional sales trader?
Financial Planning August 1, 2006 Craig L. Israelsen	Alpha in the Box The search for Shangri-La pales in comparison to the quest for funds that consistently deliver high alpha. The fundamental question for financial advisors: Does alpha differ across the nine Morningstar style boxes?
Wall Street & Technology June 28, 2005	The Next Big Thing Four analysts predict what shape they believe the future landscape of financial services technology will take.
On Wall Street July 1, 2011 Carl Resnick	Like A Stock, But Different Advisors looking for cost-effective options for building diversified portfolios are continuing to turn to exchange-traded funds.
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Jessica Pallay	The Buy Side Buys In In 2006, it will be impossible to ignore the enhanced productivity gained from algorithmic trading systems. As the buy side takes control of its own trading processes, automated trading frees up humans to focus on more-complex trading decisions.
Investment Advisor November 2005 Jeff Joseph	Hedgeworld Hedge Fund Focus: The Roles of Alpha and Beta Acknowledging the elusive nature of alpha is critical to hedge fund and absolute return investors, particularly because most think of alpha as the primary (if not the exclusive) source of hedge fund returns. But this may be an erroneous assumption.
Wall Street & Technology November 29, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	Want an Algorithm With That? Major brokerage houses are franchising their algorithmic trading strategies to smaller firms that are feeling pressure to offer the service.
Investment Advisor April 1, 2011 Tom Lydon	ETFs and Liquidity: A Primer If you're an advisor concerned about liquidity in low-volume ETFs, you're not helpless. Among your options is using the services of alternate liquidity providers.
Wall Street & Technology June 4, 2004 Robert M. Hegarty	The Next Wave: Innovation It's been a long time comin', but the Securities industry has reengaged, with some very innovative technologies, products and even services as its launching pad.
Wall Street & Technology July 17, 2006	Instinet CTO Michael Bundy Focuses On Smaller, More Agile IT Development Teams CTO Michael Bundy assigns small teams of IT developers to work on new algorithmic trading technology and to create new platforms for credit derivatives, futures and options products.
On Wall Street September 1, 2009 Tim Knepp	Alternative Medicine: Separating Beta from Alpha Retirement portfolios have been subject to significant stress and this, combined with a daunting global economic outlook, has many investors considering alternative strategies in an effort to shore up their traditional investment allocations.
Real Estate Portfolio May/Jun 2008 Ryan Chittum	From Alpha to Beta Sophisticated concepts of hedging alpha risk with beta, long familiar in the hedge fund world, are largely absent from real estate investing.
Financial Advisor April 2007 Matthew M. Brandeburg	Alpha: Charge Clients Based On The Value You Add As financial advisors, we need to quantify what our investment planning acumen is achieving for our clients.
Investment Advisor May 2006 Joseph & Kurdas	Hedgeworld Hedge Fund Focus: The Search for Portable Returns With the portable approach, the search for top-performing managers as a source of alpha is separate from the desire to get market return on an asset class, the beta.
Wall Street & Technology January 23, 2007 Matt Nelson	Ask The Expert: Trends Q: What business trend will have the biggest impact on asset managers in 2007, and how will it impact the IT department?... A: As we enter 2007, buy-side firms should be thinking about how they are positioned to support their clients' changing product needs...
Wall Street & Technology January 5, 2004 Larry Tabb	Data Providers Face Identity Crisis Plagued by declining revenues, the financial data providers seem to be between a rock and a hard place -- hamstrung by increasing competition, an aging infrastructure, an ever-increasing amount of content, and a customer base that wants to pay less.
The Motley Fool May 4, 2007 Zoe Van Schyndel	Trade Like a Hedge Fund Although this strategy is often used by hedge funds and applied to equities, you can also build your own 130/30 portfolio using ETFs.
Wall Street & Technology March 22, 2005 Kerry Massaro	Taking Risks Credit risk management hasn't been a hot topic in the securities industry since the fall of Enron.
Bank Technology News April 2005 Shane Kite	Trading: Algorithms Headed for New Frontiers Advanced matrices for equity transactions are being applied to other financial instruments, such as options, futures and foreign exchange.
The Motley Fool November 20, 2006 Dan Caplinger	It's All Greek to Me Finance's unique combination of mathematical and social sciences makes the field a linguistic battleground among academics. As ways to express financial concepts, alpha and beta are relatively simple.
Bank Technology News November 2004 Shane Kite	Trading: Direct Execution Players Get Beefy Banks and brokers are stocking up on tech and management tools, bundling direct access with algorithmic trading, as the industry gets more competitive than ever.
Investment Advisor October 2005 Joseph & Kurdas	Hedgeworld Hedge Fund Focus: Portable Alpha Investing Institutions seeking better risk-adjusted returns are increasingly employing a portable alpha approach, in some cases using this method to invest with multistrategy hedge fund managers through funds of funds.
Wall Street & Technology April 22, 2008 Ivy Schmerken	Buy Side Seeks Independent Valuation Providers for OTC Derivatives After Credit Crisis With the credit markets in turmoil over OTC derivatives valuations, buy-side firms are tapping vendors to avoid the conflict of interest inherent in broker-determined prices.
Registered Rep. September 22, 2014 Brad Zigler	Active Management Under The Microscope Just how actively managed is your actively managed mutual fund? And, more importantly, what's the real pay-off for all that activity?
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Larry Tabb	Risk in a Real-Time World The world is getting riskier. Not only has geopolitical strife changed compliance risk, but new trading, governance and capital-allocation mechanisms are changing traditional risk measures as well.
Wall Street & Technology November 26, 2007 Larry Tabb	Be Careful of The Transparent OTC Market While exchanges may make PR gains by talking about the sanctity of transparent and regulated markets, they should be cautious of what they wish for -- for when a market shock occurs, whether listed or not, liquidity dries up and prices fall.
Registered Rep. August 16, 2012 Brad Zigler	Surfing the Yield Curve for Fun and Profit In their quest for alpha, hedge fund managers employ a number of market-neutral arbitrage tactics to exploit valuation differences between fixed income securities or contracts.
Financial Planning February 1, 2007 David E. Adler	High Net Worth: Alpha-Beta Investing This institutional strategy is starting to make inroads among high-net-worth managers.
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Registered Rep. March 1, 2006 David Weiss	Living with Reg SHO The new regulation opened up the possibility of completing a short sale without worrying if it complied with the uptick or bid test, and put into affect rules requiring greater effort on the part of brokers and other participants in the securities industry to ensure that short sales were covered.
Wall Street & Technology June 22, 2004 Larry Tabb	Providing Service in an Increasingly Electronic World The way in which brokers traditionally manage their relationships with the buy side needs to change.
Wall Street & Technology June 22, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	Algorithmic Alliances Buy-side firms take a page from the broker-dealers' book, paying to use their algorithmic-trading strategies via partnerships with order-management systems.