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In 2016, SEI issued a paper on what it saw as five major innovations that were causing disruptions both within and outside of their respective industries. The company has revisited those themes, namely: Watsonisation, Googlisation, Amazonisation, Uberisation and Twitterisation, to provide an up-to-date picture of the innovations occurring in our industry today. Over the next few months SEI will share its findings and recent developments for each theme. Next up: Amazonisation…

In this podcast produced by Hedgeweek, in association with SEI, we examine how asset managers need to carefully engineer the way they optimise alternative data, in order to generate incremental insights to support their investment programmes. 

The world has witnessed an unprecedented explosion of data over the last few years. Most of us will be familiar with the term Terabyte, which represents 1012 or 1 trillion bytes of data. But such is the data-drenched world in which we live today that Caltech estimates 463 Exabytes of data will be created, every day, by 2025. One Exabyte is 1018, equivalent to one quintillion bytes!

In this podcast produced by Hedgeweek, in association with SEI, we examine how AI is shaping the future of the asset management industry on the back of SEI's recent white paper, Watsonisation 2.0: The Exponential Pull of Innovation.

Technological advances are shaping the way asset management firms operate, as they look for ways to introduce artificial intelligence applications to monetise data, and improve automation from the front to the back office.

In 2016, SEI issued a paper on what it saw as five major innovations that were causing disruptions both within and outside of their respective industries. The company has revisited those themes, namely: Watsonisation, Googlisation, Amazonisation, Uberisation and Twitterisation, to provide an up-to-date picture of the innovations occurring in industry today. Over the next few months SEI will share its findings and recent developments for each theme.  First up: Watsonisation…

The prospect of remote working becoming the “new normal” amid the likelihood of renewed Covid-19 lockdowns is driving investment managers of all sizes and strategies to re-evaluate their operational infrastructure and business practices in light of this year’s unprecedented events, according to SEI Investment Manager Services.

SEI's latest middle office whitepaper, "Remote Working, Covid-19 and Middle Office Outsourcing," explores some of the operations challenges and opportunities caused by Covid-19 lockdowns, woprkplace interruptions and the 'new normal'.

In part one of this article series, entitled Alphabet Soup, three key themes were discussed in relation to the global regulatory environment investment managers must navigate: 1) Uncertainty, 2) Accountability and 3) Increased Scrutiny.

A thick broth of global regulation is putting added pressure on investment managers to institutionalise their compliance programmes.