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Two Sigma has launched Venn, a cloud-based investment analysis software platform. Venn was introduced initially on a limited, invite-only basis, but is now available to institutional investors and wealth managers among others.
For many institutional investors, the investment process today remains highly qualitative, with a reliance on spreadsheets or other inefficient tools that are slow to provide more complex analysis and can require hours of manual effort to build and maintain. These barriers to data-driven analysis can prevent investment teams from responding to management needs in a timely manner and increase the likelihood of human error.
“Two Sigma has spent
EDBI, a global Asian-based Investor, is now a Pico investor and strategic partner. Pico provides transparent, low-latency financial markets solutions.
Instant access to financial markets is provided via PicoNet, a globally comprehensive network platform instrumented natively with Corvil analytics and telemetry. Its clients include more than 400 leading banks, exchanges, asset managers, financial technology vendors and trading firms operating across five continents. With Pico, clients are empowered with a highly responsive and transparent technology platform required to participate successfully in today’s fast paced financial markets.
“We are honoured and delighted to welcome EDBI as a strategic investor in Pico. EDBI was instrumental to
Align: Best Cyber-Security Services Provider – In the fast-paced world of technology, efficiency and speed are highly valued. Align, a technology infrastructure solutions & managed IT services firm, prides itself on offering clients the innovation that occurs in the public cloud at a faster rate than any of its competitors. This, in turn, allows its clients access to the full benefits of these developments.
Chief Operating Officer of Align, Vinod Paul (pictured), says: “The single biggest factor many service providers are trying to navigate is how to utilise the public cloud. Align was an early adopter of the public cloud and
Peaks Strategies: Best Public Relations Firm – Technology is playing a greater role in all aspects of the asset management value chain and communications agency Peaks Strategies is focused on introducing new, analytical technologies to help clients better understand the impact and the effectiveness of PR.
“I want to make sure we’re analytically measuring the real business impact of our work. We have and continue to seek thee technology to help us better understand the return on investment of PR, by measuring the impact our work makes, the visibility it builds for our clients and the engagement it creates – essentially
Agecroft Partners: Best Third Party Marketing Firm – In order to attract high quality hedge funds and help grow their assets, a hedge fund consulting and marketing firm needs to nurture its reputation for having strong investment knowledge, being ethical and highly selective in terms of the hedge funds it chooses to represent. Agecroft Partners is a consulting and third party marketing firm whose objective is to be viewed in the marketplace as a thought leader within the hedge fund industry; a firm of high institutional quality and representing some of the top hedge funds in the industry.
Don Steinbrugge (pictured),
Horseshoe: Best Offshore Hedge Fund Administrator – As the pace of change accelerates, operational excellence, customisation and innovation becomes critical. In view of this, Horseshoe is focused on growing its brand in the fund administration industry by launching services to help clients streamline their processes and improve their efficiency.
The firm’s developments are testament to its commitment to the industry. One example of this is the Horseshoe Investor Onboarding Portal (HIOP). Brian Desmond (pictured) FCA, CSO and EVP Head of Fund Services, Horseshoe, gives further detail: “Our proprietary platform built in house in 2018 is becoming a real differentiator for us.
UMB Fund Services: Best Hedge Fund Administrator – A top priority for UMB Fund Services is the client experience. One of the essential building blocks is a considerable investment in technology which helps ensure UMB’s clients have at their disposal a wide range of tools to support their own product offering to investors.
“We are continually enhancing our online client portal which overlays our proprietary accounting system,” explains Jill Calton, SVP/Executive Director of Alternative Investments, UMB Fund Services.
“Early next year, we plan to release enhanced functionality and a completely new user interface. We are also investing in continued enhancements into the
SS&C Advent: Best Managed Account Platform Technology Firm – Alternative managed accounts have become increasingly popular with institutional investors over the past decade, and Geneva is among the first platforms that enabled fund managers and administrators to service this market at scale.
The “Best Managed Account Platform Technology Firm” award underscores the tremendous versatility of the Geneva platform for managing virtually any type of fund, whether co-mingled or separately managed.
“Alternative fund managers face a big challenge to meet investor demand for transparency and timely, accurate reporting on complex asset classes. These capabilities will prove particularly critical as fund firms seek
SS&C Eze: Best Front to Back Technology Firm – Joining SS&C Technologies in October 2018 has helped Eze Software get closer to its goal of bringing together different parts of the financial ecosystem in efficient and effective ways. Being part of a larger entity has helped Eze extend its knowledge of project management best practices and apply them to help customers tailor and optimise their operations.
Eze Investment Suite and Eze Eclipse sit at the heart of the investment process. These platforms bring together an investment manager’s disparate systems into a single, streamlined workflow – across asset classes, strategies and departments.
EisnerAmper: Best Accounting Firm – EisnerAmper LLP is among one of the nation’s largest accounting firms, with a dedicated and well-established Financial Services Practice that provides audit, tax, and advisory services. Our Financial Services Practice, comprised of the Asset Management and Capital Markets Groups, is the largest industry group within EisnerAmper servicing more than 2,500 financial services clients.
Over the years, EisnerAmper has forged a reputation in the US market for delivering proactive, responsive, high-quality service.
“We have the expertise and skill sets of a Big Four firm, but we also have the nimbleness and personal touch of a family business,”
