Clive Bellows, Head of Global Fund Services, EMEA, at Northern Trust joins the Faster Forward podcast to discuss the digitization of the private equity market and the opportunities that lie ahead as technology continues to evolve.
Clive discusses:
The current private equity market and the digitization of the asset class
Technological advancements in the PE space
The importance of choosing a provider with the ability to service you in the present day and into the future
As asset allocators become increasingly involved in the investment process, they are looking to asset managers to answer questions about their investment decision-making and to explain performance. Without the right technology, it can be difficult for managers to pull out insights and articulate why they made the decisions they made. Investment teams are turning to behavioral analytics to better understand and improve their investment decisions.
In this episode, Paul Fahey, Head of Investment Data Science at Northern Trust is joined by Clare Flynn Levy, Founder & CEO at Essentia Analytics to discuss what inspired Clare’s journey to begin Essentia Analytics, how Essentia’s technology gathers and produces actionable insights to help with the investment decision-making process and the ways that Northern Trust and Essentia leverage their partnership to help move their clients Faster Forward through the power of data science.
Paul and Clare discuss:
Their experiences in the industry that led them to their roles today
Why managers and allocators are becoming more interested in behavioral analytics
How Essentia’s technology helps managers improve decision making
Quantitative and qualitative data that plays a role in portfolio manager’s performance
Where the Essentia and Northern Trust partnership is headed
