Guest Contributor: Sheryl Brown, Social Media Coordinator, Ash Brokerage Social media is a communication mecca. Whether you’re introvert or extrovert, social media is the line drawn in the sand and makes both communication styles equal. For financial advisors, this is both exciting and overwhelming at the same time. It tickles me when advisors ask me, “You mean
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Starting a Hedge Fund in 2014
Guest Contributor: Joe Holman, CEO Orangefield Columbus Despite the economic downturn in 2008, the requirements for launching a hedge fund can be made simple by hiring the right service providers. Having a legitimate operational platform is key for a startup to grow to an institutional sized fund and the manager should choose an administrator who
Derivatives
New Collateral Requirements Could Be an Operational Nightmare For Asset Managers
Guest Contributor: Ted Leveroni, Executive Director of Derivatives Strategy and External Relations, Omgeo The asset management industry faces a clear and present danger to their day-to-day operations in the New Year with the implementation of The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Treasury Market Practice Group’s (TMPG) margin recommendations for all forward-settling agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS),
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Hedge Funds – the Next Frontier for Automated Reconciliation
Guest Contributor: John Landry, CEO, Electra The recent regulatory mandates and the increased flow of institutional money into hedge funds have created a growing demand for automated reconciliation systems from the asset management community. Global institutional investment in hedge funds will increase 56% to $2.3 trillion by the end of 2017, from the end of
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FTF News Summer/Fall 2013 Digital Issue
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Tips for Using LinkedIn: Your Electronic Rolodex
Guest Contributor: Cynthia Stephens, Vice President of Marketing, ByAllAccounts In a recent FTF News blog Eugene Gyro wrote about the use of social media sites in the wake of SEC clearing the way for public companies to use social network sites for announcements. You probably think about social networks as a mechanism to deliver information
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“What Is” the Sell Side?
The sell side consists of financial services firms such as broker-dealers, investment banks and market makers that offer securities and investment services to money managers working on behalf of pension funds, mutual funds and insurance companies, also known as the buy side. The sell side can offer a wide variety of financial instruments. The sell
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Outsourcing Data Management and Performance Measurement to Minimize Operational Risk
Guest Contributor: Jamie Verrengia, Senior Vice President at DST Global Solutions & Arthur Fryar, Global Product Manager – Investment Performance, Attribution & Data Management Solutions, DST Global Solutions The importance of a firm’s performance measurement team, from the output they produce, to their ability to interpret results, is growing at a rapid pace under today’s
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What Can Hedge Fund Administrators Learn from Madonna?
Guest Contributor: George Michaels, CEO, G2 FinTech One could say Madonna owes a great deal of her multi-decade success to her ability to “reinvent” herself and keep pace with the ever-changing music scene. The hedge fund administration industry could learn a thing or two from this strategy. Hedge fund “admins” are perfectly poised to capitalize
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The Rise and Rise of Reconciliation Systems
Guest Contributor: Duncan Wheatley, Managing Director, Watson Wheatley Ltd Several years ago I was responsible for the global operations of a $350bn asset manager running institutional and private client money and mutual funds. We had 250 operations staff; 60% were responsible for day to day account reconciliation. We had no automated reconciliation, no automated data
