Forbes – Bridgewater Associates, one of the largest hedge funds in the world with $120 billion in assets, will soon use Northern Trust to shadow the fund administration work it outsourced to BNY Mellon in 2011.
For asset managers, outsourcing middle and back office work to custodians is nothing new; it has been going on for years as the big custodians like JPMorgan, Citi, BNY Mellon, Brown Brothers Harriman and Northern Trust use their skills, plus massive deployments of technology, in the high-volume, low-margin business of fund administration.
