what software do professional money managers use?

Discussion in 'Professional Trading' started by ginux, May 8, 2007.

  1. ginux

    ginux

  2. It is just my guess, but most their software is probably developed in-house. This is part of their "edge" over the rest of us.
     
  3. ginux

    ginux

    I don't mean their trading system.
    I'm referring to the software they use to manage the business side of their operations.

    Like clients CRM, portfolio reports generator etc.
     
  4. 2ticks

    2ticks

    Given the amount of fog surrounding the numbers that the public gets to see, I think it's programmed by the CFO's 11 year old nephew, probably in Basic.
    Not too hard to write out a string "NET INCOME... xxxxxxxxxx.xx *"
    The footnotes have to be outsourced with oversight.
     
  5. range

    range

    Some use software from SS&C (now owned by Carlyle Group):

    http://www.ssctech.com/

    Since I have never been on that side of the business, I happily know nothing about it, except that it is widely used in the US, and globally.
     
  6. Quotetracker, Yahoo Finance, Lycos Quote.Com.
     
  7. inside trader info ver . 4.4444
    screw the little guy ver. 1.33
    my trades always come 1st! ver. 1
     
  8. "inside trader info ver . 4.4444
    screw the little guy ver. 1.33
    my trades always come 1st! ver. 1"

    i really did laugh out loud at this
     
  9. Most small hedge funds have 20 or 30 clients. A simple excel sheet, with a fancy printing format will do.
     
  10. That's right. Not everyone is a billion dollar fund with a huge IT budget and infrastructure.
     
    #10     May 19, 2007