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Ravishankar Poonjolai

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Democratization of alternative investments – Are we there yet?

This blog is in continuation of my thoughts on alternative investments for retail investors with detailed information on customer segments, investment avenues and regulatory aspects. The performance of alternative investments is better than their public market equivalents in long term. But the share of individual investors in private markets is on...

20 December 2024 /wealth Capital Markets Technology

Alternative Investments for Retail Investors – Current Status

Alternative investments such as private equity, private debt, and real estate are long term in nature with higher fund management charges and a complex structure. So, they are more suitable for institutional investors for the additional growth potential than peers in public. Hence retail investors also want to include alternatives in their overall...

10 January 2024 /regulation /wealth Alternative Investments

Generative AI use cases for Asset Management Firms

Our generation is witness to the emerging power of current game-changer Generative AI (GenAI), which is a deep learning technique of Artificial Intelligence within Machine Language umbrella. It’s a thriving baby with Large Language Models (LLMs) as foundation, which itself is a convergence of neural network models, made commercially available now ...

17 August 2023 /wealth /predictions Capital Markets Technology

UK Consumer Duty Regulation – Impact on buy side firms

The Consumer Duty regulation sets higher and more defined standards of consumer protection across UK financial services sectors and requires FCA (Financial Conduct Authority) regulated firms to put their retail market customers’ needs first. This affects financial service providers such as banks, building societies, insurance, life & pension f...

13 April 2023 /regulation /wealth Banking Regulations

Opportunities in Digital Assets Await Both Asset Managers and Servicers

Globally, investments into digital assets such as bitcoin, alternate coins, stablecoins, NFTs and DeFi are on the rise, with more than 300 million users. Also, institutions investing in cryptocurrency increased from 33% in 2019 to 52% in 2021 according to Bloomberg Intelligence’s Crypto Outlook. After mainstream adoption, many global regulators ap...

29 August 2022 /wealth /crypto Alternative Investments

SEC Derivatives Regulation for Funds - Industry Considerations and Opportunities

As per Investment Company Act of 1940 of Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) of USA, investment management firms and business development companies can use derivatives in mutual funds, ETFs, and closed end funds, except money market funds, with exposure up to ten percent of their assets under management. SEC introduced a new rule under section 1

04 August 2021 /regulation /wealth RegTech

ESG Investing: A New Approach to Thoughtful Investments

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investment has gained traction in recent times with growing patronage from institutional as well as millennial high net worth investors. ESG investments were pegged at $20 trillion in AUM in 2018, according to a Forbes article. Socially and environmentally aware millennial investors, with a pulse on key ...

06 March 2020 /sustainable Innovation in Financial Services