Cover Story
Caught in a ‘liquidity trap’ — The all-encompassing ‘fog of denial’ is now lifting, so it is time to contemplate what this turn in the hedge fund tide means for IT. By Peter Laurens


thought leader:
Credit crisis: the impact on asset managers — This explosive situation in the financial markets will have an impact that may change the industry forever as we work to regain client trust By Jim Mazarakis


Pro:Con
Outsourcing — Build or buy? Two distinguished industry experts argue the pros and cons in outsourcing services and while they agree on certain points of advice, come to quite different conclusions


Pro:
To build or to buy: to answer the question... — Pondering a question of Shakespearean magnitude, whether to suffer the slings and arrows of internal development By David B Wiess


Con:
Fly in the face of current trends — Pondering the question of build or buy, the advice is to fly in the face of the current trend and keep your competitive advantage By Peter Ligezinski


In conversation with:
Richard Thwaite — The CTO of UBS Global Asset Management talks about the long road from the automotive industry to global asset management and his views on value-add IT Interview by Deborah Valentine


Derivatives:
Reviewing internal architecture — OTC derivatives have offered new languages, new software and inspired a shopping list of development strategies for those giving them a home By Daniel A Sullivan


Last word:
Way back when: the binary system — Research into the the beginnings of the binary system led to the ‘last universal genius’, Voltaire’s satire Candide and an ancient system of divination
By Deborah Valentine


Interview
Karen Higgins-Carter, CIO of GE Asset Management, speaks to IMT about how
information is perceived, how she used a programme of teaching executives about
securing their home computers to make them aware of corporate security issues and the
importance of diversity in an IT environment