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Webinar - Understanding the Cloud: Considerations for Alternative Asset Managers

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Chris Grandi interviewed for TabbFORUM to discuss technology trends for hedge funds

Orchestrade Financial Systems Now Available as a Service to Hedge Funds on Abacus Group LLC's AbacusFLEX™

Partnership will provide Hedge Funds with capability to measure and monitor real time P&L, positions and risk while managing full trade life cycle... Read More >

Abacus Group LLC Top Overall Technology Provider For Hedge Funds

Abacus Group LLC, the market leader in hosted technology services for Hedge Funds, today announced that it had been named Best Overall Technology Provider for hedge funds in Hedge Funds Review's 2011 Hedge Fund Service Provider Awards. Winners for different categories were selected by a survey of more than 1,000 hedge funds, funds of hedge funds and investors responding to the survey... Read More >

Hedge Funds Review reveals results of first service provider awards

There were a few surprises in the first Hedge Funds Review Service Providers Rankings. Overall, the response was good, with over 1,000 hedge funds, funds of hedge funds and investors responding to the survey... Read More > (requires subscription to Hedge Funds Review)

SunGard Global Network and MarketMap Deliver Global Connectivity and Market Data through Abacus Group LLC

SunGard Global Network (SGN) Securities and MarketMap are providing hedge funds and investment managers with global connectivity and market data through Abacus Group LLC's hosted IT solutions, AbacusFLEX... Read More >

Podcast: Chris Grandi discusses partnership with Sungard MarketMap

Abacus Group LLC Partners With eSentire to Provide Collaborative Threat Management to Its Data Centers

Partnership will provide Hedge Funds with an advanced layer of data security that can stop intrusion even as it is occurring... Read More >

Abacus Group Passes the 100 Customer Milestone

Abacus Group, the leading private cloud provider for hedge funds, is pleased to announce that it has recently signed its 100th client... Read More >

Hedge Funds See Cloud as Effective Way to Outsource IT Infrastructure

By Emma Cusworth

Hedge fund managers are outsourcing IT infrastructure to the cloud as a way to save money. However, counterparty risk, security and reliability are of particular concern to investors... Read More >(requires subscription to Hedge Funds Review)

Smaller Hedge Funds See More Assets Headed Their Way

By James Armstrong

Cloud technology is enabling hedge funds to obtain IT services more cost-effectively than if they had to implement and manage these services themselves... Read More >

Abacus Group Completes SAS 70 Audit

IT solutions firm Abacus Group has completed of its SAS 70 audit for its hedge fund application hosting and managed services... Read More >

Hedge Fund Rides a Private Cloud

By Eugene Grygo

At first glance, private cloud computing and hedge funds would appear to be a marriage made in heaven, especially for small-to-medium sized funds. The financial, operational and time-to-market advantages alone would seem to carry the day. But, before they tie the knot, hedge funds want providers that specialize in their business needs... Read More > (requires subscription to Financial Technologies Forum)

After Registration: Hedge Fund Advisers Find Help

By Chris Kentouris

The Securities and Exchange Commission's recent decision to delay the deadline for many hedge fund and private equity fund advisers to register until March 2012 from July gives them a tad more breathing room to prepare for the new requirements... Read More >

Case Study: Resultant Capital Installs AbacusFLEX

By Anthony Malakian

One of the first decisions that the founders of Resultant Capital had to make before it opened its doors was whether or not to build its own infrastructure or outsource it to a third-party vendor "Our objective from the beginning was to set up an institutional-quality infrastructure because the investors that we manage money for are pensions, endowments and large institutions," says Michele McGovern, chief operating officer of the San Francisco-based hedge fund... Read More > (requires subscription to WatersTechnology)

Regulation and Operations 'Best Practices' Still Top of Mind for Hedge Funds, finds Linedata Hedge Fund Panel

Linedata (NYSE Euronext: LIN), the global leader for investment management and credit industries, today announced the outcome of its hedge fund panel, 'Optimizing your Business Model for Growth,' one of a global series of hedge fund events running throughout 2011. This thought-leadership event, held at the Ritz Carlton San Francisco, attracted over 70 hedge fund professionals... Read More >