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By Holly H Miller, Managing Director of Middle Office Services, SEI’s Investment Manager Services division
TAKEAWAYS
Regulation and more detailed operational due diligence questionnaires used by institutional investors are pushing hedge funds to the limit of data management. Transparency is as great as it has ever been, but with that comes the need to process enormous volumes of data. Right now, however, large numbers of hedge funds do not have the required operational infrastructure to run a ‘Big Data’ strategy.
SEI’s Holly Miller (pictured) and Ross Ellis explain the core tenets of establishing a successful middle office…
It’s a fair assumption to say that the proliferation of hedge fund regulation has spurred technology providers to produce newer, innovative solutions.
Alternative mutual funds, also referred to as liquid alternatives or hedged mutual funds, are becoming a lot more popular with private fund managers. This has largely been driven by the requirement for hedge fund managers to register as investment advisers with the SEC. Prior to this, unregistered managers were not allowed to manage assets on behalf of US mutual funds. Now they can.
SEI has launched The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund (AIC) III with an eye towards helping managers of private funds enter the retail space.
SEI has been selected by Duet Alternative Investments (USA) Ltd, a subsidiary of Duet Group, to provide operational outsourcing services for the firm’s emerging macro hedge funds.
SEI will provide Duet (USA) with a suite of operational outsourcing services in a straight-through-processing environment.