If done right, performance measurement helps firms greatly improve their investment decisions and better explain their results to clients—two essentials for attracting and keeping investors. Yet everywhere a firm looks when it comes to this issue there are expenses, says Philip Lawton, an expert on the matter. “It’s costly but not without internal benefits,” Lawton… Read More >>
Q&A: Holly Miller Says Investors Deserve Better Information
[EDITOR’S NOTE: In this second installment of my conversation with Holly H. Miller, founding partner of Stone House Consulting, we focus on the ways IT and operations staffs at investment management firms could be working together better, communication issues between investors and investment management firms, and the impact of social media on operational risk. Stone House… Read More >>
Q&A: Holly Miller Takes On Investors
[EDITOR’S NOTE: I recently got the chance to speak to Holly H. Miller, founding partner of Stone House Consulting, which provides strategic, operational and IT consulting services to investment managers and hedge funds. I attended her training course, “Surviving a Hedge Fund Operational Due Diligence” last month.Miller is the chairperson for Financial Technologies Forum’s 5th… Read More >>