Tailoring your data to investor requirements

Making life easier for investors can help funds to keep mandates In the increasingly competitive world of investment management, it is still possible to achieve a critical edge by simply presenting information to clients in an efficient and secure manner. Many money managers subconsciously see a client as … read more

Meeting the hybrid portfolio challenge

Today’s liquidity-aware fund investor is still seeking the appropriate solutions for cash flow monitoring within alternative portfolios. Investors in alternative funds are managing far more diverse portfolios than they used to. And even within the hedge funds universe, they are grappling with wildly different structures and liquidity terms. … read more

Dealing blind: are you 100% confident about your trade location?

The parties to any single trade, be it the fund manager, the custodian, the investor or the administrator, are incorporating a degree of estimation in the course of the transaction process. It is still difficult to operate otherwise. Each participant is using different parameters to view mission critical … read more

Creating effective liquidity reporting

A detailed liquidity report of an underlying portfolio of hedge funds, one that could be dynamically updated, was the Holy Grail for many funds of funds in the dark days of 2008. Proper liquidity reporting is underpinned by effective data and tools. It requires a degree of investment … read more

Projecting light onto hedge fund transactions

Since the subprime crash of 2008 the alternative investment industry has been focusing in unprecedented detail on the issue of operational risk. This is being driven forwards from a number of quarters, including by regulators and investors concerned that assets might be placed in jeopardy as a consequence … read more