Asset Servicing Insights & Research

This article, which first appeared in Global Custodian, outlines four significant trends we observe as private markets investing continues to move towards the mainstream of the funds industry – all with broad-reaching ramifications.

Through our lens as an asset servicer to investment funds, from the most traditional to the most complex, Northern Trust shares insights into the trends, challenges and solutions emerging as we work with European asset managers launching this new wave of semi-liquid fund products.

Asset managers face a key challenge: growing their business through increased distribution, while also navigating the obstacles that come with it. Outsourced trading can be a solution to this problem, enabling them to do more with less.

The TRADE sits down with the head of integrated trading solutions for EMEA at Northern Trust, Amy Thorne, to explore what is driving change in the outsourced trading sphere, the ever-relevant T+1 debate, asset class diversification, and the evolving provider landscape.

In Amy Thorne’s latest video interview with The TRADE, she explains how Northern Trust works with asset managers to provide a flexible and customisable global outsourced trading service to help them achieve better performance.

Learn more about how Waverton and Northern Trust worked together to implement an aligned, agency-only execution solution through Northern Trust’s Integrated Trading Solutions outsourced trading desk with access to significant liquidity and scale across 82 markets.

Listen to Amy Thorne as she discusses how the outsourced trading landscape is evolving drawing on key findings from our survey of 300 global asset managers ‘Driving Growth in Asset Management’ and her experience as head of our Integrated Trading Solutions team in EMEA.