Custodian
topic on 2 shows · 6 statements across 5 episodes
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6 statements about Custodian, every show
Birmingham: PRINCO feeds data to its custodian rather than relying on it
“We do have a custodian, which is technically our books and records, but it's really The shadow book, because we enter all the data into our system, and then we feed that to our custodian.”
Institutional investors rely on manual spreadsheets across fragmented software systems
“As much as every institution has some sort of permutation of a CRM system and a performance system and a risk system in some way that they're tracking liquidity and they have a custodian, they still are responsible for shipping data between those systems and m…”
Custodial books are insufficient for institutional investment decision-making
“Accounting books and custody books are not really fit for purpose for making investment decisions, and so they're meant to be monthly, they're meant to be settlement date based, and as asset owners and allocators started making more investment decisions in-hou…”
Monk: Unifying institutional portfolio data across custodians and GPs takes months
“What was really hard to do was to get all the data unified, to get it into the system. It could take six months. It's like when you said at Yale we had all this data. It's a huge lift to get this stuff out of
The custodians, out of the general partners, out of…”
Lydon: 1990s fund companies used custodians to ban short-term market timers
“If a fund company knew you were coming in and putting twenty million dollars, and then you were selling it six months later, they would actually work with the custodian. The custodian would say, they don't want that type of money, so you no longer can buy that…”
Antonopoulos: Custodial Crypto Funds Replicate Vulnerabilities of Traditional Banking
“So what are these crypto funds doing? They're basically holding crypto for thousands of investors on their behalf as custodians. That's business as usual. That's traditional banking only now with a new currency. The problem with that Is that if they hold the c…”