Defining the Problem of Data Management Market volatility, big data mining for new investment ideas, regulation and an endless list of middle and back-office responsibilities are forcing funds to take a long hard look at their data management strategy. First, there is a growing use of big data to source and mine new sources of […]
Why are Hedge Funds Slow to Adopt Automation? An increasing number of investment firms are embracing the benefits of adding automation technology to their front, middle and back-office solutions, but why is the hedge fund space yet to catch up? Automation: What hedge funds need to know Cutting-edge automation software solutions are now an […]
Hedge Fund Administration includes functions related to the fund’s operations including regulatory and compliance, fund accounting, audit oversight, investor reporting, and tax requirements. However, one of the most important functions of the Hedge Fund Administration or more specifically Fund Administrators themselves is the calculation of the firm’s Net Asset Value or NAV. While critical, the […]
What is an Accounting Repository? Traditional accounting packages include both the ability and function to calculate accounting results as well as the ability to store and report accounting results. For example, most accounting packages will calculate journal entries and update ledger accounts and then store the full history of those journal entries and ledgers in […]
The folks here at Ryan Eyes serve the finance industry and in particular private equity and hedge funds. As most of you know GameStop and several other heavily shorted stocks identified and bought by investors have had a major impact on hedge funds. In this blog post, we want to explore the story and perhaps […]
Investor Balance Tracking and Performance Reporting for Hedge Fund and Private Equity Firms Increasing complexity challenges firms that have elected to use a hybrid private equity/hedge fund investor entity structure. It combines the exacting timelines for investor reporting typical of hedge funds with the tailored structures that are also typical of private equity firms. When […]
Maximizing Workflow Efficiency for Fund Managers and Administrators Operations and fund administration in financial services firms has never been more challenging. Handling the complex and mounting responsibility of managing workflow, jobs, tasks, and projects is critical to meeting investor, accounting, and compliance needs. Ryan Eyes’ software is specifically designed to empower operations with visibility, control, […]
As a fund manager or fund administrator in a private equity, hedge fund, or other alternative investment firms, the number of tasks that are assigned has grown significantly and for most has become cumbersome, unwieldy, and worst of all risky. What I mean is that with front, middle, and back-office responsibilities including operations, accounting, risk, […]
The Key to Evaluating Investment Opportunities The critical variables in an asset management data warehouse are position, performance, risk, and transaction. Asset managers have had the unenviable task of assembling this data from a variety of intelligence sources to generate the actual calculations, insights, and reports to assess opportunities. To make matters worse, managers had […]
Private Equity Fund Administration includes functions related to the fund’s operations including functions such as regulatory and compliance, fund accounting, audit oversight, investor reporting, and tax requirements. As technology, automation, and transparent processes are centered around management and workflow, automating standard processes allows the fund administrator to minimize workflow friction and improve job throughput. Fund […]
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