As COVID-19 compounds pressures and overturns assumptions, managers are considering outsourcing their trading desk as a potential solution
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As COVID-19 compounds pressures and overturns assumptions, managers are considering outsourcing their trading desk as a potential solution
As industry pressures grow, how can investment managers continue to deliver value – and achieve Operational Alpha®?
As the industry addresses these challenges and opportunities, asset managers are increasingly outsourcing their non-core functions – in what is effectively a ‘third wave’ of outsourcing.
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