CutterResearch Member Meeting
Nov 18 Mon · 2019 8:30am - 5:00pm EST
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Event Summary

Join us and your peers for expert insight into the latest industry challenges, based on new research findings including:

Alternative Investments – Private equity, real estate, infrastructure and other alternative assets present very different challenges from their traditional investment counterparts. We will discuss the systems that supports these assets, and how the vendor landscape has changed.

ESG Investing – The broad range of areas covered, the lack of global reporting standards, and the difficulty of gathering high quality information can be overwhelming. We will explore the increasing demand for ESG investing, how investment managers are responding and embedding ESG into their organization and processes, and uncover the service providers that specialize in supporting this growing market.

Governance, Risk & Compliance – Designing and implementing an integrated approach to GRC is not easy. It involves aligning people, process and technology with your company’s evolving risk appetite, internal policies, and changing regulations. We will cover current industry practices and obstacles, identify systems and the types of risk they manage, and highlight and assess system capabilities and advantages.

Who Should Attend

Our exclusive members-only event brings together industry leaders from across the global asset management community and gives you the opportunity to connect and share best practices with your peers from leading asset management firms – including institutional managers, insurance companies, and public pension plans. This event is designed specifically for operations and technology professionals.

  • Chief Technology Officers
  • Chief Operations Officers
  • Chief Information Officers
  • Chief Data Officers
  • Investment Operations and Technology Managers
  • Portfolio management, trading, operations, compliance, and technical staff involved throughout the lifecycle of a trade

Agenda

Speakers

Cutter

Angela Centeno, CPA

Director

Angela Centeno, CPA

Director

Angela Centeno joined Cutter Associates in 2015, bringing more than 20 years of experience in financial services. Prior to Cutter, Angela worked for The Northern Trust Company in multiple roles managing enterprise market data, investment operations outsourcing, vendor relationships, and custodian relationships. She previously held senior positions in operations management, project management, data management, and solutions implementation.

Angela earned a bachelor of science in accounting and a bachelor of science in business administration from the University of Kansas, as well as an MBA in finance from DePaul University. She is a registered CPA.

Recent research assignments and publications include the following:

  • Asset Management Trends: 2022 and Beyond
  • Market Data Administration
  • An Introduction to Vendor Management
  • Best Practices for Developing a Vendor Management Program
  • Vendor Management: Trends ─ And the Tools that Can Help
  • Data Cataloging Tools
  • Rethinking Research Management
  • Alternative Investments
  • Managing Benchmark and Index Data

Jon Chandler

Director

Jon Chandler

Director

Jon Chandler brings more than ten years of experience in the financial services industry to his Director's role at Cutter Associates. Prior to joining Cutter, Jon was a senior business analyst for State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), where he was involved in a number of projects for the front and middle office, including UAT design and execution for an order management system (Fidessa IMS), the implementation of a web-based due diligence platform (FundInsight), and an enterprise solution to support blended benchmarks. Prior to his project roles, Jon was a principal in fixed income trade operations at SSGA. He has extensive experience with post-trade operations and applications, such as OASYS/CTM, PORTIA, MBSExpert, and Failstation. Jon earned a bachelor of arts in history from the University of Florida and an MBA from Northeastern University.

Recent research assignments and publications include the following:

  • Alternative Investment Systems
  • Collateral Management
  • Investment Accounting Solutions
  • Order Management Systems
  • Performance Measurement and Attribution Systems
  • Reconciliation Solutions
  • Risk Management Systems

Stacia Graham

Managing Director and Asset Management Lead

Stacia Graham

Managing Director and Asset Management Lead

Stacia Graham has more than 20 years of experience in investment management, bringing a deep understanding of end-to-end asset management processing and project management to her role as Managing Director at Cutter Research. Prior to Cutter, Stacia worked at Wellington Management Company LLP in Boston in various roles within compliance and operational risk, including leading and managing the global Investment Guideline Compliance team for eight years. She earned a bachelor of science in business administration from Bryant University and an MBA from Bentley University.

Recent research assignments and publications include the following:

  • All-In-One or Standalone Solutions? Finding the Right Technology Strategy
  • Asset Allocation Solutions
  • Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Systems
  • Performance Measurement and Attribution Systems
  • Rethinking Research Management
  • Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
  • The Future of Work in Investment Management


Gina McCafferty

Principal – Head of Research

Gina McCafferty

Principal – Head of Research

Gina McCafferty has 30 years of experience in the financial services industry. She served at Cutter from 1999 to 2011 as Principal and Managing Director of CutterResearch, and she was instrumental in growing that business. Gina returned to Cutter in 2017, and established and ran the company’s Wealth Management research division. In 2019, she was appointed to Head of Research, responsible for Asset Management and Wealth Management product development and delivery to over 200 member firms around the globe. Gina was previously at Investit Ltd., where she served for six years as head of the company’s research service. Prior to that, she held senior positions at DST International with product responsibility for their global accounting and performance measurement systems, and at SunGard as Vice President of Client Services for their securities trading products.

Guests

Jonathan Barnet, FRM, CSOP

Senior Vice President, Head of Business Risk, Income Research + Management

Jonathan Barnet, FRM, CSOP

Senior Vice President, Head of Business Risk, Income Research + Management

Jonathan joined Income Research + Management (IR+M) in 2008 and is currently the Head of Business Risk. In this role, he is responsible for broad programs such as business continuity, vendor risk management, and firm insurance coverage. He is also responsible for more focused tasks like process risk & control and root cause analysis for unexpected outcomes. Prior to his current role, Jonathan was the Head of Investment Operations. Before joining IR+M, he was the Vice President of Data Management/ Portfolio Accounting & Client Reporting at Bank of America, and previously held roles at John Hancock Advisers and Investors Bank & Trust. Jonathan has a BA in business administration from Saint Anselm College and received his Financial Risk Manager designation in 2016.

Rick Bodio, CFA

Director, Hancock Natural Resource Group

Rick Bodio, CFA

Director, Hancock Natural Resource Group

Rick is responsible for the development of investment strategy, investment origination, portfolio company management, client relationships and capital raising. During his time at HNRG, Rick has developed the portfolio management function for the agricultural strategy, managing over $3B in investments around the globe across 19 portfolios. In addition, Rick has been responsible for global underwriting and transaction management, working on approximately $1B in new acquisitions in the US, Australia, Canada and South America. Prior to joining HNRG in 2011, Rick worked in Financial Strategy for Forest Systems Management Company. Rick holds a B.A. in English and Philosophy from Providence College and a MBA in Finance and Real Estate from the University of Connecticut, where he managed a portion of the University’s endowment. Rick is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Society Boston.

Michael A. Ervolini

CEO, Cabot Investment Technology, Inc.

Michael A. Ervolini

CEO, Cabot Investment Technology, Inc.

Cabot is the world’s leader in helping equity management teams deliver LeanAlpha®. The Company uses its patented analytic software to support analysts and managers in delivering stronger results more consistently, and cost-effectively. Equity teams quickly develop greater self-awareness about skills, investment processes, and unproductive behavioral tendencies. They are then supported by Cabot in implementing this greater knowledge to become their best.

Mike has over 30 years of experience in institutional money management and software development. Prior to founding Cabot Research in 2005, Mike was a founder and CEO of Charter Research Corporation, a software company that supported the pricing, analysis and management of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) which was purchased by McGraw-Hill / Standard & Poor’s. Previously Mike was a Portfolio Manager and Chief Information Officer with a global money management company. Mike is the author of: “Equity Portfolio Management: A Behavioral Approach to Improving Skills and Investment Processes,” published by MIT Press. Mike has written extensively on the interconnection of asset management, culture, and technology and he is a highly regarded speaker at both public and private conferences. He earned an M.S. from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from Rutgers University.

Event Exhibitors

ACA Technology Solutions is a division of ACA Compliance Group, a leading provider of governance, risk, and compliance advisory services and technology solutions. Our clients include leading investment advisers, private fund managers, commodity trading advisors, investment companies, broker-dealers, and domestic and international banks. Our team of financial technologists has real-world industry experience and understands the dynamic needs of today’s investment managers.

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Because every minute matters, Backstop’s mission is to help the institutional investment industry use time to its fullest potential. We develop technology to simplify and streamline otherwise time-consuming tasks and processes, enabling our clients to quickly and easily access, share, and manage the knowledge that’s critical to their day-to-day business success. Backstop provides its industry-leading cloud-based productivity suite to investment consultants, pensions, funds of funds, family offices, endowments, foundations, private equity, hedge funds, and real estate investment firms.

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Broadridge, a global Fintech leader and S&P 500® company with over $4.5 billion in revenues, provides communications, technology, data and analytics. We help drive business transformation for our clients, including asset managers, with solutions for enriching engagement, navigating risk, optimizing efficiency and growing revenue. Our integrated, front-to-back solutions translate data into actionable insights and streamline the investment life cycle. Touching 90 percent of the world’s mutual fund assets and drawing from the most complete sales and asset data collection in the industry, we are uniquely positioned to help asset managers get ahead of today’s challenges and capitalize on what’s next.

Broadridge delivers state-of-the-art technology, data and services to bring transparency and automation to the investment management and private lending process. Our portfolio management solution offers managers full front-to-back-office functionality on a single platform across all asset types. The product suite is used by many of the largest and most respected asset managers and investment firms in the world.

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Clearwater Analytics is a global industry-leading SaaS solution for automated investment data aggregation, reconciliation, accounting, compliance, risk, performance, and reporting. Each day, the Clearwater solution reports on more than $5.9 trillion in assets for clients that include leading insurers, asset managers, corporations, pension plans, governments, and nonprofit organizations – helping them make the most of their investment portfolio data with a world-class product and client-centric servicing. Investment professionals around the globe trust Clearwater to deliver timely, validated investment data and analytics. 

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Eagle Investment Systems, a BNY Mellon company, is committed to helping financial institutions worldwide grow assets efficiently with its innovative portfolio management suite of data management, investment accounting and performance measurement solutions that are delivered over its secure private cloud, Eagle ACCESS(SM). Eagle deploys trusted solutions and services that create operational efficiencies and help reduce complexity and risk. In addition to the cloud solutions, Eagle’s Managed Services offering helps deliver enriched and ready for use investment data. Eagle Investment Systems' integrated technology, products and services help our clients to grow their assets efficiently and effectively.

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eFront pioneers technology in alternative investments to help alternative investment professionals achieve superior performance. With more than 850 Limited Partner, General Partner and Asset Servicer clients in 48 countries, eFront is the leading technology partner to alternative investment professionals. eFront is the only solution suite addressing all the needs of alternative investment professionals end-to-end: fundraising, portfolio construction, due-diligence, deal-flow, portfolio monitoring, positions tracking, investor reporting, accounting, operations management, General Ledger, Private Market data, benchmarking and advanced analytics (Value at risk, cash flow forecasting, risk management). For more information, please visit eFront.com. In 2019, eFront was acquired by BlackRock and since then operates as a specialized business unit within BlackRock Solutions, alongside Aladdin Institutional and Aladdin Wealth.

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Electra provides award-winning post-trade operations workflow solutions and data services for reconciliation, data aggregation, fee billing and trade settlement. We help buy-side investment managers, hedge funds, fund administrators and service providers reduce risk, improve operational efficiencies, scale to business demands, and gain sustainable value from our innovative, patented technology across their entire operations ecosystem.

Electra’s solutions include:

  • Reconciliation: Improves efficiency, accuracy and transparency across reconciliation, exception management and post-trade processes
  • Data Aggregation: Acquires, validates, enriches, normalizes and delivers information from thousands of global sources and data feeds
  • Client Fee Billing: Improves the speed and accuracy of invoices, cash flow and client service while reducing risk
  • Managed Services: Reconciliation and data aggregation managed and supported by a dedicated operations team
  • Trade and Settlement Notification: Custodian trade and client notifications, confirmations, affirmations and settlement instructions
  • Trade Fail Prevention: Proactive identification of pending, unmatched and at-risk trades, and fast exposure of failed trades

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FactSet (NYSE:FDS | NASDAQ:FDS) helps the financial community to see more, think bigger, and work better. Our digital platform and enterprise solutions deliver financial data, analytics, and open technology to over 7,500 global clients, including over 185,000 individual users. Clients across the buy-side and sell-side as well as wealth managers, private equity firms, and corporations achieve more every day with our comprehensive and connected content, flexible next-generation workflow solutions, and client-centric specialized support. As a member of the S&P500, we are committed to sustainable growth and have repeatedly scored 100 on the Human Rights Campaign® Corporate Equality Index and have been recognized among the Best Places to Work in 2023 by Glassdoor as a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award winner. Learn more at www.factset.com. Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/factset.

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IHS Markit (NYSE: INFO) is a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions for the major industries and markets that drive economies worldwide. thinkFolio from IHS Markit is a multi-asset investment management platform, which mitigates risk, increases operational efficiency and supports decision-making by investment managers. EDM from IHS Markit is a data management platform that acquires, validates and distributes trade, operational, risk, finance and customer data. IHS Markit also provides a data warehousing solution, EDM Warehouse. This is a single platform that consolidates data and empowers users to interrogate it on a real-time basis in order to understand risk, exposure, AUM and periodic metrics.

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Indus Valley Partners (IVP) is a global provider of front, middle and back-office technology solutions, consulting and “digital-first” managed services to over 160 of the most prestigious fund managers on the buy side.

Hedge funds, private equity firms and other traditional and alternative asset managers rely on IVP’s expertise as a thinking partner and best-of-breed platforms to digitally transform and future-proof operations – reducing their costs, improving control and increasing productivity across their enterprise.

Founded in 2000, IVP remains at the forefront of moving Finance ForwardTM with approximately $4 trillion of global AUM managed using its technology and $1.6 trillion AUM reported through its regulatory reporting solution. IVP is headquartered in New York with additional offices located in Salt Lake City, Dallas, Toronto, London, Mumbai and Noida.

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SimCorp offers industry-leading, integrated investment management solutions.

Our platform and ecosystem, comprising partners, services, and third-party connectivity empowers us to provide 40% of the world’s top 100 financial companies with the efficiency and flexibility needed to succeed.

With over 25 offices around the world, and more than 2,200 employees, we are a truly global, collaborative team that connects every continent and industry seamlessly.

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State Street Global Exchange® combines information and insights, risk and trading analytics and data solutions to help clients focus on opportunities that generate the most value. We deliver market expertise and insight across investment strategy and data science, helping clients find new ways to drive performance.

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