Institutional Investor's Alpha Magazine - October 2008 - (Page 93)

Alpha Bytes Data Parsing Funneling the Chatter NEW TOOLS TO MANAGE THE VAST FLOW OF MARKET NEWS. By Katie Gilbert ith information overload clashing with lightning-fast trades, the human capacity to keep up — even among high-energy hedge fund managers — is being overwhelmed, or maybe it has been already. Investors have instant access to all manner of news, chatter and data relevant to their strategies, but sifting and organizing it fast enough to be able to use it for timely, informed trades is something else entirely. Sensing a market among traders and portfolio managers who are constantly being inundated by a variety of data, developers have recently released a ﬂurry of prodIllustration by Elliott Golden W ucts meant to unclutter the crush of information. “These companies are asking themselves, ‘How can we help a fundamental or quantitative trader effectively digest a huge volume of information and trade on it in very rapid time?’” says Josh Galper, lead manager at Concord, Massachusetts–based Finadium, a research and advisory ﬁrm for the ﬁnancial services industry. Adam Sussman, director of research at Westborough, Massachusetts–based TABB Group, a market research and advisory ﬁrm, says he has noticed a recent oversupply of news-aggregation companies. The demand for these ﬁrms’ services may be shrinking along with stock market values. He suggests that the only way to compete is to OCTOBER 2008 • INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR’S ALPHA • 93

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Institutional Investor's Alpha Magazine - October 2008 Contents Letter from the Editor Longs & Shorts Pension Corner: Process of Evolution The Good Guys: Israel's Champion Interview: Fast Lessons for Hard Times Cover Story: Industry Under Siege The New Hedge Fund Economics Good-Bye, Easy Money Caging the Shorts Strategies: Bottom Fishing Profile: Cult of Personalities Research Center: Alpha Awards: Eye of the Storm Alpha Bytes: Funneling the Chatter Unhedged: Commentary: Attention, Hedge Fund Shoppers

Institutional Investor's Alpha Magazine - October 2008

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