Managing the Desk
|
Consolidated Clearing: Obstacles and Evolution August 27, 2008 | Cost savings and efficiency have the buy side taking note of consolidated clearing. But will widespread adoption happen? |
Demand for Credit Analysts Rises on the Buy Side in Wake of Rating Agency Disasters
August 22, 2008 | After losing faith in rating agencies, buy-side firms are hiring their own in-house talent to perform credit analysis of issues.
Northern Trust Releases Fundamentals Dashboard
August 21, 2008 |
Pali Capital Expands with Three New Hires in Equity Trading
August 20, 2008 | Taps three sales traders from Bear Stearns and Jefferies & Co.
Sectoral Selects LongView Trading
August 19, 2008 |
Coexis Hires Stephenson to Head Up Asia Ops
August 19, 2008 |
Former BofA Exec Joins Cuttone & Company
July 28, 2008 |
Duke to Head Up Knight’s European Electronic Sales
July 17, 2008 |
More
CAPIS Sees Buy-Side Demand for Fixed Income in CCA Programs
Former Citi Exec Joins Tora Trading
Knight To Expand Transition Management Services
Henderson Adopts Imagine Software’s Portfolio Management Solution
George Weston Foods Chooses SunGard’s Kiodex For Its Commodity Hedging Program
Credit Suisse Launches Virtual Infrastructure Management Software Company
Morgan Stanley Investment Management Launches Commodities Alpha Fund
BNY ConvergEx Group Discusses New Transition Management Paradigm
Cuttone & Company Makes Key Hire
Managing the Desk: Keeping Up With Information Overload
Managing the Desk: Technology Documentation
Stephen Potter Appointed President of Northern Trust Global Investments
Rosenblatt Hires New NYSE Floor Head
IB Trading Olympiad Winners Announced
Minority- and Woman-Owned Broker Dealers Gaining Ground
The City of New York Turns to Minority- and Woman-Owned Broker-Dealers
Demand for Quants Surges as Trading Requires More Math and Programming Skills
Achieving Alpha: How Do Traders Do It?
Agency Broker Weeden & Co. Organizes Traders in Pods to Offer Targeted Service
Broker-Dealers vs. Agencies: Broker-Dealers Still Get the Majority of Commissions
Agency Brokers See Growth as Business Evolves
2008 Outlook: The Buy Side Raises Issues With Fragmentation, Data Traffic and Execution Systems
Commission Management Practices - From Soft Dollars to Hard Boiled Bucks?
Gold Book
Our markets have become more correlated — not just within the currency space, but across equity and bond markets as well. If markets are in risk-seeking mode, it tends to be that the whole gamut of emerging currencies, equities, etc., do reasonably well ... More >>
Opinions
Sawgrass Asset Management's Timothy Christiansen Says More Light Will Be Shed on Dark Pools
![]()
Can and Should Asset managers Integrate Hedge Fund Technology With the Buy Side's Existing Systems?
![]()
Research
EMS and OMS: Integration on the Horizon?
![]()
Electronic Trading: The Latency Challenge
![]()
Hedge Funds: Before and After the Credit Crisis
![]()
The New Liquidity Risk Management Paradigm
![]()
Credit Crisis to Impact Asset Mangers Over Long-Term, According to TowerGroup
![]()
Popular Articles
- The Top 10 Quant Schools, According to the Street
- Anatomy of A Trading Floor--ING Investment Management
- The Quant Generation
- The Buy Side Learns to Survive in the Post-Credit Crisis Environment
- A Tale of Two Exchanges: BATS Gets Status, CME/NYMEX Agree to Merger Terms
- Liquidnet Prepares for Launch of European Trading Desk
- Exclusive: Inside State Street’s FICross
- Demand for Quants Surges as Trading Requires More Math and Programming Skills
- End Game: Anti-Gaming Technology in Dark Pools Tops Buy-Side Agenda
- Muriel Siebert on Wall Street Then and Now: ’1,365 Men and Me’
This page was designed for head traders who are managing a staff of traders, a trading desk or a trading floor. Issues such as hiring staff, particularly quantitative analysts, financial engineers and technology execs who understand trading, are covered here. In addition features that uncover how buy and sell side firms have structured their trading desks and why, how they deal with certain regulations, or what their strategy is on using algorithms or international trading can also be found here. Issues concerning how a trader managers the technology on his/her trading desk as well as the vendor relationships and relationships with inhouse IT can also be found here. All issues covered from a management perspective for a head trader can be found in this section.

















