Responding to market dynamics in fund servicing
Fund administration and servicing is a hot button topic in alternative investments. The conversation has moved on from whether to outsource, to one where service levels and takeover activity are being increasingly scrutinised. Each week, participants see headlines of titanic mergers and acquisitions being financed from the huge pool of commitments that have flooded into […]
Process automation: what does it mean practically?
In the finance world, it is a rare day when we don’t hear about automation and technology transforming how operations are conducted. From AI to robots to machine learning and virtual banks – sometimes the future can seem daunting. In wealth management for example, we now have retail access to products which are completely automated […]
What does “next generation” asset services actually mean?
People are at the heart of any organisation, and it is important to recognise that people are not machines that are content to spend their time mimicking them. People have ambitions, cognition, flexibility, ethics and emotional intelligence that cannot be replicated by machines. In alternative assets though, we subject many people both on the client […]