Technological innovations in bond trading rarely grab headlines, but advancements have substantially changed how business is conducted in the fixed income markets. When used as part of a comprehensive portfolio construction process, electronic trading helps improve efficiency, enhancing performance while reducing account minimums and expanding customization options. However, there’s still a major role for fixed income professionals in unlocking additional value for bond investors.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted all types of businesses to run a magnifying glass over their processes and infrastructure to ensure continuity and viability. For family offices, it is an opportunity for them to upgrade technological systems by adopting outsourcing and automation. Such advancements improve operational efficiencies, security, and long-term likelihood the family offices achieve its business and familial objectives across generations.
Media is a great tool for storytelling. Photo albums can reveal ancestral details, documents can highlight past events, and film can rejuvenate old memories. All these items contribute to your family’s legacy. Although we see the value in this irreplaceable media, few of us are doing enough to protect it. That is why we are exposing the top threats to your physical media to show what you can do to protect it for your family legacy.
The key to success of any risk management plan is the development of an “all risk” approach that takes the entire family enterprise into account. Through a survey of more than 200 family office executives at single and multi-family offices, an uncovering of some worrying approaches has surfaced around the risks that family offices face, particularly cyber risk, family-related risk, investment risk, and employment-related/insider risks.
Family offices are increasingly leveraging tools to drive efficiency in the office, such as call scheduling, business intelligence, and client relationship management systems.
The evolution of family priorities and the acceleration of technological advances are reshaping the future of the Family Office. We shared insights into the Future of the Family office across four pillars of change: Shifts in Family Priorities, Proliferation of Technology, Evolution of Talent Profile, and Rising Importance of Partnerships.Insights and Key TakeawaysPresident of the Family Office Exchange, Bill Sullivan, shares key areas of change to help us understand the evolving landscape of the family office.
FOX’s Kent Lawson moderated a discussion on how family offices are incorporating automation to free resources for higher value add activities, leveraging data to make more informed decisions, partnering with third-parties to fill non-core capabilities, and ensuring it is all done with proper cybersecurity protocols to protect family data.
Family offices have gone through a number of transformative changes, with COVID accelerating the impact of technology on every level. In this webcast, learn how family offices can take a holistic approach to building a technology ecosystem. Key topics discussed include: integrating technology into your family office; how to leverage technology to enhance opportunities for growth; how to take a holistic view of your office’s data; and ensuring your family office is effectively utilizing technology.
Although there is no true end-to-end encryption for securing Zoom meetings, there are a few simple measures and setting guidelines you can take to help make them more secure.
While it’s difficult to predict the near-term market and economic landscape, it’s clear that consumers and businesses will need new methods, ideas, and approaches. To scale effectively long-term, tech leaders will need to consider the balance between innovation and risk holistically and with intent. Here are few hotbeds of innovative opportunity and some of the risks these pursuits may encounter.