Process improvement for the Buy Side

The term “Buy Side” is generally used as a broad collective name for a range of institutions from fund managers to alternative funds to hedge funds. It also can encompass the administrators and custodians that service these institutions. Traditionally it has been viewed that the “Sell Side” investment banks and brokers that have been the source of innovation in the wholesale markets. In recent years we have seen that change with many examples of senior “Sell Side” market leaders leaving their firms to set up “Buy Side” funds. These trends coupled with changes in approach (e.g. algorithmic trading) and facilitating technological advances (e.g. FIX) have meant that much of the agile innovation is now coming from this area.

Client experience

We have a number of clients in this sector with projects including work for a major alternative funds business, work around broker voting and review, commission sharing and also we are also undertaking implementation work with an alliance software firm Kurtosys for client reporting for international hedge funds and asset managers. Projects have also included work with systems such as Sungard, Advent and Wall Street Office.

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