Inputting data manually can be one hell of a task: it’s an hours-long process on Excel that is tiring on the eyes and mind. As happens in such situations, you become more prone to making errors – and who can blame you? With hundreds or thousands of inputs, you’re bound to press a wrong number...
Modern-day trading would blow the socks off any high-flying investor from the 1980s: while 40 years ago, an investor would have had to be well-equipped to deal with the stresses of the physical stock markets, the amount of data required to make a knowledge-driven investment decision was hundreds of times less than it is today. ...
It is, perhaps, the biggest catch that comes with all financial software, but you’ll need to maintain it if you wish to ensure it always runs at optimum efficiency… Now, you may choose to do all that development and maintenance in-house, though that is often pricier than paying a licence fee for an enterprise solution....
We all know that designing and implementing software code requires time and money, but this is just one side of the coin. As a financial services company, you also need to factor in the costs of maintaining and keeping the service running, especially at times when your operations are decreasing or increasing. That’s why scalable...
There are many brilliant data scientists out there; people who know the financial markets, have deep maths knowledge, and understand what data means for their investment portfolio strategy. But in a world where electronic trading is taking over, the trick isn’t just in being able to read data, but also in collecting and processing it...
What is the job of a systematic manager? In a nutshell, we’d say it’s to develop a successful investment strategy, apply it, manage the regulated entity, raise the assets under management, and sort out the infrastructure of running the business. This is a huge role by any account, but it’s even harder for systematic investment...
Managing costs is an extremely important task for any company, but it is particularly so for financial services SMEs looking to grow. Growth, however, requires numerous steps and tools to be achieved. This includes the right software that can help you deal with ever-increasing data volumes and always-shrinking time to market. Over the past three...
How can we balance our needs and software features in a bid to achieve better performance as investment managers? This is a pertinent question that is complex to answer, but it’s a crucial one to ask ourselves if we want our software to help us out in the long run. So, without further ado, here’s...
In 1993, international tyre company Pirelli released an advert with the tagline, ‘power is nothing without control’. This rang true across all industries, including the financial services one. In fact, while choosing the right financial software is slightly more complicated than picking out new tyres for your car, the sentiment is the same because without...
How often have you used software for a specific purpose and ended up feeling disappointed? Our guess is often enough, as off-the-shelf software cannot possibly meet everyone’s needs efficiently. This is particularly an issue in investment, where the amount of data that needs to be processed is increasing by the day. So, what should you...
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