Hedge Fund Workflows
Investment Management
SaaS • PMS • OMS • EMS
Intro
BizTT explores the multifaceted world of investment management, examining the technological infrastructure supporting portfolio management. It details the roles of portfolio managers and execution traders, highlighting the interplay between technology, strategy, risk management, and compliance. The analysis covers various technological solutions, including proprietary systems versus vendor platforms, emphasizing cost-benefit analyses and workflow optimization. Finally, it touches upon the significance of real-time data, regulatory compliance, and the evolving role of artificial intelligence in shaping the future of investment management.
1. Basics
Jane builds an ethical investment portfolio, leading her and friends to form an investment group with a hired manager, Jack, aiming to balance financial returns with social responsibility.
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This section covers investment management, discussing data sources, ESG investing, research methods, and the impact of private equity and activist investors on investment strategies.
2. Portfolio Manager
Jill, a portfolio manager, balances client profit expectations with ESG considerations, working with analyst Jim to analyze trends and manage risk, while trader Tony executes her orders, emphasizing the complex interplay of financial analysis, risk management, and client relations in portfolio management.
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Describes the comprehensive duties of a portfolio manager, including daily tasks, data challenges, risk management, investor reporting, capital allocation strategies, and the complexities of handling the results of a traders execution methods and trading intelligence to optimize portfolio performance.
3. Trader
Tony, an execution trader at an outsourced trading desk, does pre-market analysis, executes trades, and talks with portfolio managers, requiring decisive decision-making, analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication.
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Covers the role of a buy-side execution trader, workflows, order types, liquidity, IOIs, trading costs, PFOF, execution delays, trader intelligence, and the effects of institutional advantages and compliance on trading operations.
4. Platform
A discussion about various workflow blocks in investment management, focusing on technology like proprietary systems, fund administrators, and outsourced services, detailing key components such as PMS, OMS, EMS, and discussing system integration, compliance, reporting, and considerations for system selection and transition.
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Covers the investment management technology workflow, focusing on system operations, special data handling, portfolio, order and execution management platforms, vendor APIs, external data integration, fiduciary duties, reporting, calculations, and the need for alert systems and data formatting for compliance and efficiency.
5. Requirements
Outlines considerations for selecting a portfolio management system, focusing on the need for better software as AUM grows.
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A talk about requirements for functionalities, enhancements, SWOT analysis, and cost-benefit considerations for a POEMS.
6. Costs
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A conversation about building versus buying investment management technology, evaluating market data vendors, scalability, portfolio compliance, integration, scope creep, resource use, and innovations like AI, along with the specific needs of institutional clients.
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