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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

State Street’s US$88M Fine Highlights Deceptive “Pass-Along” Custody Fees

July 30, 2019 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

How can a global custodian bank convince clients for almost two decades that a twenty-five cent cost to transmit a message through the SWIFT network transmission is really worth a $5 “pass-along” fee? Easily, when fund managers aren’t paying attention and no one at the custodian bank is minding the shop. That’s no longer the […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Funds, Investments, Regulators Tagged With: Compliance, Custodians, Fund Ops, Investment Ops, Regulators

IHS Markit: Taking the Distress Out of Distressed Loan Settlement

July 22, 2019 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

T+66. That’s on average how long it takes to settle a trade in a distressed loan. Now technology and data giant IHS Markit is hoping to reduce the timeframe by leveraging its existing platform for par loans. The settlement cycle for distressed loans is even longer than what it takes a package to travel to […]

Filed Under: Brokers, Compliance, Funds, Settlement Tagged With: Brokerage Ops, Fund Ops, Ops Risk, Settlement

Hedge Funds: Proactive Operational Risk, Finally

April 15, 2019 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

  Failed trade settlements, bad valuations, bad reconciliations, shoddy vendor management and simple forgetfulness. These glitches aren’t new for hedge fund managers. What is new is that they are turning to management and technology consultants for help.  As regulators, such as  the US Securities and Exchange Commission, look under the hood during exams and investors become […]

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

Global Network Management: Artificial Intelligence the Charm?

October 16, 2018 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

For global custody network managers, analyzing the tsunami of data on dozens of local agent banks and markets to ensure the safety of client assets remains a sore spot. The use of artificial intelligence appears to be an elusive ideal, acknowledge panelists and attendees at a recent global custody event in New York hosted by […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Custody, Data, Funds, Investors Tagged With: Compliance, Custodians, Data, Regulators

Custody: Unchartered Waters for Digital Assets

June 1, 2018 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Qualified custodian. That’s a term that compliance and operations managers at registered investment fund advisors, not to mention the US Securities and Exchange Commission, are now grappling with, when it comes to the safekeeping of digital assets. The reason is two-fold. For starters, it is unclear whether the SEC’s custody rule for RIAs investing in […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Custody, Funds, Infastructure, Investments, Investors, Rules, Slider, Standards Tagged With: Compliance, Crypto, Custodians, Fund Ops, SEC

Striking an NAV: Fund Managers’ Contingency Options

May 11, 2018 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

(Editor’s Update on December 5, 2018: US fund managers are getting serious about striking back-up NAVs on their own. Milestone Group tells FinOps Report that it has nabbed two top-tier US headuartered fund managers to use its pControl Oversight platform to monitor their fund administrators and  to strike back-up NAVs in-house, instead of relying on […]

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

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