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AFA Offers Hedge Funds a One-Stop-Shop Solution

Global Investment Technology

New York - Increased trading volumes resulting from transactions with multiple brokers were proving to be overwhelming back-office processing activities at Senvest International, the broker-dealer arm of Montreal-based Senvest Capital, recalls Robert Katz, Senior Technology Analyst at the firm....

 

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Order Management Systems/Execution Management Systems - Trading Strategies, Integration and Implementation Special Report

Traders Magazine

AFA's Perspective on the EMS vs. OMS Debate

One of the great debates revolves around the issue of integrating and migrating trades from front-end execution to back-end clearing and settlement - to manage trades thoughout the trading process. Most software providers have taken a "siloed" approach to the process, focusing on one aspect of trading, for example, either an execution management system (EMS) or an order management system (OMS). This is an approach based more in technological capabiility than on trader need....

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The Right Order Management System: For start-up hedge funds, order management systems can be hard to select

BY NILESH NANAVATI | Let’s face it - between legal documentation, capital raising, trading and real estate issues, a hedge fund manager has little time to think about trade order management sys­tems. Managers are inundated with consultants and technology vendors chasing them for business while man­agers are trying to establish their own fund. Among all this activity, the strategic objective in selecting an OMS technology is lost. As a guide to the new manager, we have outlined cer­tain strategic principles that start-up hedge fund managers should consider when selecting an OMS....

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