Outsourcing Across The Buy Side—Look Before You Leap

Outsourcing business processes and technologies to specialist third parties is an integral part of the global investment management industry.

This paper investigates the extent to which firms have embraced outsourcing across the industry, key benefits they can reasonably expect on the back of outsourcing business processes and technologies to a specialist third party, potential drawbacks of outsourcing practices and what they are looking for when it comes to vetting outsourcing partners.