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REGULARS
6 INSIDE VIEW | Jonathan Watkins
8 NEWS AND PEOPLE MOVES
11 UPDATES
100 GC Industry Awards shortlist
MARKET REVIEW
20 Fund administrators step up to
the crypto challenge
Fund administrators have begun offering crypto
services to new funds which has presented
them with a whole new world of challenges.
42 Hedging for good
Environmental, social and governance (ESG)
factors are increasingly on the radar of hedge
fund investment decision-makers. Are there
robust tools to help?
50 Buy or be bought
The wave of consolidation among fund
administrators shows no signs of slowing down,
and as new pressures continue to arise, each
player is having to work out whether they are a
buyer or a seller.
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Global Custodian
The Hedge Fund Annual 2018
CLIENT PERSPECTIVE
18 Why two heads are better than one
Eileen Murray, co-CEO of Bridgewater Associates,
helped launch the industry’s first dual-outsourcing
model using two custodians. Here Murray discusses
how the world’s largest hedge fund has utilised this
model.
INTERVIEWS
40 Stronger by association
In January 2018, former JP Morgan, State Street and
Citi fund services veteran Chris Meader set up a new
association for administrators, in a bid to promote
collaboration and the sharing of ideas. He talks about
the motives behind the association and what he is
hoping to achieve.
104 From the ground up
Joan Kehoe, global head of alternative investment
services at JP Morgan, has made a career on building
businesses from the ground up.