2010 Winners "Buy-Side Technology Awards"

The winner announcements are out. However, none of the awarded products have a significant client base in Germany, except StatPro, Charles River, Algorithmics and SmartStream. BISAM and Cadis are making quite some efforts to enter the market though.

Interestingly, Cadis has won the "Best Overall Buy-Side Product for 2010" award!

Metzler Asset Management Leverages the Charles River Investment Management System to Triple Trade Volumes

Metzler now has officially stated that their trading system CRIMS ("Charles River Investment Management System") does have a positive impact on its business ever since they decided to implement it. Metzler is using the Trader and Post-Trade modules in Frankfurt, Germany, mainly for its Master-KAG business.

Waters Rankings 2008 - a walk on the buy side

Ok, I am a tad bit late, but it still is interesting and up to date: the Waters ranking 2008.

Being more on the buy side, I am somehow intrigued that LineData's LongView has been chosen prior to Charles River, which has dropped to third place. And then again...I am not, knowing some of the customers that are operating world wide and having seen its latest versions and the functionality offered therein. Not to mention it is making use of modern technology.

However, for a German speaking client they might need to think about building a German subsidiary.

Report on Order Management Systems

This report by CAPIS (Capital Institutional Services), done in 2007, shows a nice overview of funtionalities of Order Management Systems, as well as an overview of them with a detail fact sheet per system.

The report covers systems that have a rather big footprint in the USA and is far from being complete, but the information listed per system is superb although more or less taken from the vendors fact sheets (for most of the given information).

The functionalities being expected in an order management system (from CAPIS' point of view):

• Portfolio Management (normally not an integral part of an OMS but a system group of its own)
  
• Compliance
• Trading
• Fix (considered to be a separate functionality group, in my opinion a general order routing functionality)
• Allocation
  

Systems listed are:

• Advent - Moxy
• SS&C - Antares
• Bloomberg - POMS
• Charles River - CRIMS
• Eze Castle
• Fidessa - LatentZero
• INDATA
• LineData - LongView
• MacGregor - XIP
• Sungard - Asset Arena (formerly known as Decalog)
  

TradeTech 2008 Names Charles River Investment Management System “Best Buy-Side OMS” for Second Consecutive Year

Charles River Investment Management System named “Best Buy-Side OMS” for the second consecutive year. This award, presented April 23rd at TradeTech 2008 in Paris, recognizes Charles River as the leading order management system provider for European investment firms in terms of user satisfaction, cost efficiency, reliability and speed.

Buy-Side Technology Awards 2007

In addition to the article already published here, here are the detailed results of the technology awards of the "Buy Side Technology":

• Best buy-side OMS - Charles River IMS
• Best buy-side EMS - Fidessa LatentZero Minerva EMS
• Best buy-side algorithmic/DMA product - Goldman Sachs GSAT
• Best buy-side risk analytics product - Imagine Trading System
• Best buy-side performance measurement & attribution product - Statpro SPA v5
• Best buy-side commodities trading platform/service - Trading Technologies X_Trader
• Best buy-side pricing/valuation service - Markit
• Best buy-side data management product - Citadel Associates CADIS
• Best data provider to the buy side - Rimes Technologies SmartFiles
• Best buy-side portfolio analytics product - Sophis VALUE
• Best buy-side integrated front-office platform - Charles River IMS
• Best buy-side portfolio accounting platform - Advent Geneva
• Best buy-side client reporting platform - Advent APX
• Best broker-supplied tool/technology to the buy side - BNY Convergex APEX
• Best buy-side newcomer (vendor or product) - Derivative Fitch RAP CD
• Best in-house developed or proprietary technology - UBS Delta
• Best overall buy-side technology vendor 2007 – Advent

The selection of most products may have been expected or are at least not surprising, from my point of view. The selection of Advent as the "Best overall buy-side technology vendor 2007" and even more so Advent Geneva as "Best buy-side portfolio accounting platform" is at least surprising to me. Has this been a worldwide selection ?

AIG Switzerland chooses Charles River for Compliance

This selection shows that Charles River can be used as a "compliance alone" tool and that this also is recognized by the market.

Readers Choice: Best Portfolio Management System

Waters Online has again chosen Charles River Development as the best portfolio management system for the 3rd consecutive year.

TradeTech crowned it as "Best Buy Side Order Management System".

Innovation Awards

Financial-i has identified the winners for 2006 in several categories, defined by an impressive number of analysts and consulters. Amongst the categories is "The most innovative fund administration and accounting solution". The winner is: SunGard, and they are referring to...InvestOne (not V3 or GP3)! You may want to have a look into my other post here (in German), where I have reflected on Sungards strategy in Germany.

Interesting sidemark: The company to watch was identified to be IGEFI. What does its CEO Bertil Rouveure focus on as the differentiation product feature is his note there ? "However, its outstanding feature is the ability to comprehensively service both mutual fund and hedge fund requirements. "

Other memorable awards are:

The most innovative order management solution: Charles River.f Company to watch: LatentZero

The most innovative securities services provider in Europe: BNP Paribas. Company to watch: RBC Dexia Investor Services

The most innovative reference data solution: Asset Control. Company to watch: Capco

You can find the awards in detail as a PDF here.

Dauerhafte Dynamik im Markt für Frontend-Software

In diesem Artikel des Magazins "Portfolio Aktuell" (um ihn vollständig zu lesen muss man sich einloggen) wird auf die Anforderungen an die Software-Lösungen für Order-Management, Compliance, Risiko-Management und Meldewesen eingegangen; dabei werden Produkte von SAP, Charles River, SimCorp, LatentZero und Aquin kurz beschrieben. Allerdings springt der Artikel sehr und hat keinen klaren Fokus - und wirklich neues bietet er nicht.