BlackRock and Vanguard discuss the future of operations teams within asset managers
Asset managers are looking to train their teams across the front-, middle- and back-office in order to give them a full end-to-end picture of the investment process.
Tag: Back office
Northern Trust launches new web-based client dashboards
New client dashboards to provide greater transparency into workflows and metrics.
SS&C automates investment operations for Indonesia’s Bahana TCW
SS&C has signed on a number of leading buy-side firms and financial institutions to its various automated middle- and back-office platforms.
Home and Away
The search for scale has often meant centralising back-office processing in large facilities far from where the assets are traded. Has this processing model stood the test of time?
Northern Trust selected by $13 billion hedge fund manager as administrator
Northern Trust's technology launches have been focused on providing added transparency and enhancing investor experience for hedge funds.
The self-service client model
Self-service has become prevalent in the customer service experience through new technologies at supermarkets and airports, but can this spread to securities services?
FIX plans foray into SWIFT territory with new back-office focus
Trade execution standards provider looks to move into back-office, as SWIFT responds by highlighting reasons to stick to ISO messaging.
German asset manager picks SGSS for full outsourcing model
CrossWise was launched earlier this year for asset managers to optimise their operating model by combining its front and back-office services.
Why two heads are better than one – the provider perspective
Peter Sanchez, Northern Trust’s head of North America Alternative Investment Services, gives his view on how the custodian has dealt with being the independent verifier for Bridgewater Associates.
Fund Administration
Why two heads are better than one – the hedge fund perspective
Eileen Murray, co-CEO of Bridgewater Associates, helped launch the industry’s first dual-outsourcing model using two custodians. Joe Parsons speaks to Murray about how the world’s largest hedge fund has utilised this model.