Best Practice

One of the most important responsibilities of the fund administrator is to calculate the fund net asset valuation (NAV). After speaking with several operations professionals across the hedge fund space, we identified four main reasons why an investment manager should shadow their service provider or fund administrator; pricing issues, staffing... read more

It has been about a year since the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced a risk alert that “Most Frequent Advisory Fee and Expense Compliance Issues Identified in Examinations of Investment Advisers.” Such inappropriate fee billing and expense practices may violate the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and the rules implementing it,... read more

In the investment management world, financial services teams, CFOs and operations teams often use spreadsheets for client fee calculation and billing. While the endless formulas, worksheet linking, and cross-tab capabilities may make spreadsheets a good choice at first, firms will quickly realize the complexity and risk they end up creating. Here... read more

This guide outlines the 5 steps towards secure and reliable payments processes. It gives you clear, best-practice guidance on how to achieve standardized workflows throughout your group as well as secure payment structures and introduces the BELLIN tm5 system: your key to a successful payments project. read more

Funds lying dormant, with tiny assets, are a disservice to investors. The extent to which these “orphaned funds” are prevalent in Europe comes to the fore in our new research paper. Read here: https://www.morningstar.com/en-uk/lp/orphaned-funds? read more

Open-ended alternative funds, or liquid alts, are one of the European cross-border market’s biggest growth stories of the last decade: Liquid funds using hedge fund-type strategies generated tenfold asset growth in that time. But our recent study shows that this rapid growth hasn’t yet given way to maturity. Find out more:... read more

We explored this question in our recent study, which analysed the performance of funds across the 12 Europe-Equity Morningstar Categories that span the market-cap and style spectrum. Read here: https://www.morningstar.com/en-uk/lp/european-equity read more

In this report, we compare the largest 100 fund families by assets under management through an assessment of their funds available for sale across Europe. We show each firm's rank in this list of 100 for those data points that can be ranked. Download here: https://www.morningstar.com/lp/guided-tour-european-etf-marketplace read more

In this publication, we analyse the latest trends in the European exchange-traded fund marketplace and cover aspects such as asset growth, product proliferation, regulation and investment stewardship. Download here: https://www.morningstar.com/lp/guided-tour-european-etf-marketplace read more

Real Time electronic processing of transactions from source system to regulatory endpoint eliminates human inputs and errors resulting in higher operational efficiencies. Even with multiple trade entry screens, operations and compliance teams need to manually find the transaction data to report.This eBook will guide you through how to achieve... read more