http://www.hedgefundsoftware.net Hedge Fund Software Industry Blog Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:30:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Blair Hull In Worth Magazine Wall Street's 25 Smartest Players By Ted C. Fishman That was 1989. Today, Hull's company is one of the world's premier market-making firms, setting the bid-ask price on stocks listed on 28 exchanges in nine countries. In some venues, the Hull Group trades nearly a quarter of ... http://www.hedgefundsoftware.net/blair-hull-chairman-ceo-matlock-capital-bought-out-by-goldman-sachs/ In this comeback year for investors, David Tepper may have scored one of the biggest paydays of all. Mr. Tepper's hedge-fund firm has racked up about $7 billion of profit so far this year—with Mr. Tepper on track to earn more than $2.5 billion for himself, according to people familiar with ... http://www.hedgefundsoftware.net/david-teppers-fund-made-7-billion-betting-against-us-recession/ This article will be about hedge fund accounting software providers. I will add to the article as the time goes and I get more information on this niche of hedge fund software industry. From the top of my head can name a few companies that develop accounting software for hedge funds ... http://www.hedgefundsoftware.net/hedge-fund-accounting-software/ CARY, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Risk management remains a hot topic for all financial services firms. Introduction of more stringent requirements, especially in the investment management industry, calls for hedge funds to access more powerful analytics to effectively measure portfolio risk, typically a difficult task with significant fixed costs. To meet this ... http://www.hedgefundsoftware.net/with-sas-concept-capital-offers-new-hosted-portfolio-analytics-and-risk-management-portal-to-the-hedge-fund-market/ Investors are Demanding Funds Switch from In-house to Independent Administrators Over 50% of Hedge Funds to Require Daily NAV Calculations within 12 Months NEW YORK & LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– With a post-Madoff world fixed firmly in the rear-view mirror and new regulations on the horizon, a new report from TABB Group describes ... http://www.hedgefundsoftware.net/fund-administrators%e2%80%99-role-at-hedge-funds-second-only-to-prime-brokers-says-tabb-group/ 1st December 2009, London, Syncova Solutions, the specialist provider of margining and financing solutions to the Prime Broker and Hedge Fund markets, has signed a new client in Daiwa Securities SMBC Europe, the European arm of leading Japanese investment bank Daiwa Securities SMBC Co Ltd. The firm has deployed Syncova’s ... http://www.hedgefundsoftware.net/daiwa-securities-smbc-selects-syncova-optima-platform-for-synthetic-prime-broker-margining/ BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– As hedge fund managers look forward to coping with expected tighter regulation and reporting requirements of the Obama Administration, they should be prepared to collect and extract much of the same client and investment data that traditional asset management firms now furnish to the Securities and Exchange Commission, ... http://www.hedgefundsoftware.net/blackstone-rejects-sec-request-for-fund-data-as-fortress-and-hoffman-meyer-also-agree/ Advises Hedge Funds to Draw on Techniques Developed by Large Asset Managers for SEC Compliance BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– As hedge fund managers look forward to coping with expected tighter regulation and reporting requirements of the Obama Administration, they should be prepared to collect and extract much of the same client and investment ... http://www.hedgefundsoftware.net/imp-consulting-principal-jane-stabile-regulatory-changes-will-require-detailed-reporting-more-efficient-it-systems-in-hedge-fund-sector/ Lets say you want to start a hedge fund. Its not that complicated though you would need some tools and processes set up to run your operations. Off course the variety of tools and processes would depend on the your knowledge and complexity of your strategies. Though a vanilla hedge fund ... http://www.hedgefundsoftware.net/starting-a-hedge-fund/ Curtain Raiser Like any other set of engineering products, software products are also oriented towards the customer. It is either market driven or it drives the market. Customer Satisfaction was the buzzword of the 80's. Customer Delight is today's buzzword and Customer Ecstasy is the buzzword of the new millennium. Products ... http://www.hedgefundsoftware.net/software-development-life-cycle-sdlc/