Buyer’s Guide: Buyside Multi-asset OEMS

Regulations, particularly those concerning trade and transaction reporting, that require additional data generation and recording are causing buyside firms to reassess their technology stack and the systems and processes in place. Operating margins and profit margins across the industry continue to remain tight while costs soar as regulatory compliance and digitalisation projects are undertaken.

The investment management industry’s heightened interest in multi-asset OEMSs is a consequence of the emergence of asset managers and hedge funds that are adopting multi-asset class trading strategies in an attempt to overcome the inertia currently experienced in equities trading and the move to trading in alternative asset classes that this is driving.

Some buyside firms such as large asset managers and mid-to-large size hedge funds also require real-time data analytics that integrate with an OEMS, as well as risk management tools and transaction cost analysis (TCA) systems to generate a cross-asset, front-to-back office view of risk across the trade lifecycle.

This buyer’s guide assesses ten technology vendor solutions that target the buyside OEMS space. The vendors reviewed in the report are: