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Registered Investment Funds 2021: New Derivatives Risk Program

January 13, 2021 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

For US traders, risk managers, portfolio managers, and boards of directors of registered fund management firms trading in derivatives, 2021 will be the year they figure out which derivatives to trade and how many to trade for more reasons than just making higher investment returns. Complying with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s new rule 18f-4 […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Derivatives, Funds, Risk, Rules Tagged With: Compliance Fund Ops, Data, Investment Ops, Regulators, SEC

SEI Loses Antitrust Suit Against SS&C; Use of Geneva Stands

January 4, 2021 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Fund administrator SEI Global Services has lost a legal battle against SS&C Technologies for violating US antitrust regulations, but it appears to have won the critical legal war necessary to ensure the fund administrator can continue using SS&C’s Advent Geneva portfolio accounting system to service its alternative fund clients. On October 23, 2020, Judge Chad […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Data, Funds, Regulations Tagged With: Data, Hedge Funds, Investment Ops, Outsourcing, Regulations, Regulators

Fund Middle Office 2021: Year of Fair Valuation

December 14, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Middle-office accounting managers at US fund management firms will likely be talking a lot more in 2021 with C-level management,  third party valuation agents, and boards of directors to figure out  just what the terms fair and material mean when it comes to pricing non-exchange traded assets in their portfolios following the Securities and Exchange […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Data, Funds, Regulations, Regulators Tagged With: Compliance, Fund Ops, Investment Ops, Middle Office, Operational Risk, Reporting, SEC, Valuation

Wells Fargo’s Comp Plan: Will SEC’s Ops Rules Hurt Investors?

November 2, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s plan for how investors in Wells Fargo’s stock will be compensated a total of US$500 million for the bank’s past wrongdoing could end up marred in operational snafus making it harder for some investors to be paid and disincentivizing others from filing the paperwork to collect any compensation. That’s […]

Filed Under: Compliance, FundOps, Funds, Rules Tagged With: Compliance, Data, Fund Ops, Outsourcing, Regulations, Regulators, SEC

SEC Fines Northern Trust for Not Stopping Criminal Hedge Fund Manager

September 27, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent US$152,553 fine against mega hedge fund administrator Northern Trust provides a clear sign the regulatory agency will continue to hold a service provider accountable for any wrongdoing committed by its client if the SEC thinks it could have prevented the bad apple’s actions. The New York headquartered L-R […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Financials, Funds, Investments, Investors Tagged With: Compliance, Hedge Funds, Outsourcing, Regulators, SEC, Valuation

FREE WEBINAR: Outsourced and Supplemental Trading: How the Buy Side is Benefitting Today

September 22, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Sponsored by Tourmaline Partners Save the Date: Thursday, October 15, 2020 Time: 10AM EST Go to www.tourmalinepartnersllc.com/finops-report-webinar to register for the free dial-in details Join Tourmaline Partners and FinOps Report for a free webinar on how the buy-side is benefitting from outsourced and supplemental trading. Access to liquidity, cost rationalization, operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Funds, Investments, Ops Risk, Outsourcing Tagged With: Fund Ops, Hedge Funds, Investment Ops, Trading

Fair or Not: Fund Managers Face SEC’s New Valuation Rule

May 21, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Registered investment advisers might find it operationally a lot harder and a lot more expensive to value hard-to-price assets held by mutual funds if the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed modernization of fund valuation practices is adopted. Appointing a chief valuation officer could become necessary to handle the laundry list of new requirements. The […]

Filed Under: Analytics, Compliance, Funds, Ops Risk Tagged With: Data, Fund Ops, Ops Risk, SEC, Valuation

SEI Sues SS&C For Threatening to Shut Advent/Moxy Access

April 29, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Fund administrator SEI Global Services has sued rival SS&C Technology Holdings and subsidiary SS&C Advent for allegedly trying to put SEI out of business by cutting off its access to critical portfolio accounting technology SEI needs to service its fund manager clients. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court in the SEI’s backyard in […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Data, Funds, Regulations Tagged With: Compliance, Data, Fund Ops, Investment Ops, Post-Trade, Regulators

Coronavirus: Survival Tips for Middle Office Fund Ops

March 26, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

The coronavirus pandemic is frazzling even the best trained middle-office operations managers of US fund management shops who are working in the trenches of a battlezone. The war isn’t about setting up remote access to IT systems for employees having to work from home or deciding who should do which task and when. Following a […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Funds, Investments, Ops Risk, Outsourcing Tagged With: Fund Ops, Hedge Funds, Investment Ops, Post-Trade, Valuation

BNY Mellon Gives Fund Managers New NAV Agent

February 13, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Fund managers no longer have to rely on their fund administrator’s backup plan or their own when striking or validating a net asset value. BNY Mellon, the world’s largest custodian bank, says it can save the day by doing all the operational work using Milestone Group’s pControl platform which also allows for accurate backup NAVs […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Data, Funds, Investments, Outsourcing, Reporting Tagged With: Compliance, Data, Fund Ops, Middle Office Ops, Outsourcing, Reconciliation, Reporting, SEC, Valuation

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