Helping Hedge Funds Achieve Smart Scale

HEDGEWEEK - May 2015

As the asset management industry continues to grow, driving investors’ appetite for more transparency, reporting and risk controls, the biggest challenge hedge fund managers face is how to create scale. 

Founder and CEO Jayesh Punater established Gravitas Technology Services in 1996. Gravitas provides a technology platform to the asset management industry with a particular focus on supporting the front- and middle-office for hedge funds. The solution is simple: Gravitas partners with managers to create smarter scalability for their funds. Working in conjunction with fund administrators, it enables hedge funds to leverage complete front- to back-office support. 

“As a result of these increased demands, there is a need for what we call ‘smart scale’ in terms of the way managers operate today,” says Punater. “This is especially true when one considers data management. With the way hedge funds operate – mobile communications, cloud computing, etc – there really is no downtime for managers. Managers deal with a constant flow of information – the speed of which has become critical.”