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Other Voices: 5 benefits of a mobile fund manager

Wednesday, February 04, 2015

By: Branden Jones, Liquid Holdings

The digital revolution is transforming today’s fund manager. The days of being tied down to your desk to manage investments and handle investor inquiries are disappearing. In its place is a new mobile, connected, empowered fund manager that can carry the most important aspects of their business in the palm of their hands.

Through mobile devices, you can be more connected — to your investment team, counterparties, and potential and existing investors. Dynamic hedge funds are leveraging this connectivity to create a more nimble, proactive and ultra-effective business.

Here’s how a mobile-manager can be smarter than their deskbound competition.

#1 Raise more assets

Let’s start with the most important advantage of a mobile hedge fund manager: the ability to dedicate more time to raising assets and less time on administrative functions.

Winning allocations from institutional investors comes down to having access to the information that matters most to your potential investors. That’s where a hedge fund operating system comes into play—having the fund’s historical and real-time information readily available demonstrates you have the controls in place to manage larger, more complex allocations. Fund management professionals are now able to access things that just a few years ago they would be hard-pressed to assemble in a week using archaic, static PDF reports. Full performance reports, complex due diligenc......................

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