Times have changed. Not so long ago outsourcing was seen as a less than ideal option due to the limitations and small scale of the available providers.
However, in recent years, hyper-scale platforms have emerged that are able to offer secure, professional and well-capitalised counterparties that are free from conflicts and can enhance operational resilience. We see this development as following a similar trajectory to the cloud infrastructure providers that technology firms have outsourced all of their high-capital, intensive, non-core functions to while retaining and focussing on their core intellectual property. Fast forward to today and investment managers have already passed the tipping-point of a third wave of outsourcing (the ...
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