Asset owners revamping operating models

A growing number of pensions and sovereign funds in Asia are looking to overhaul their operational set-ups to cope with accelerating portfolio diversification and plans to manage more assets in-house, say fund-servicing executives. In turn, fund houses and other service providers are being forced to review how they deal with institutional clients. The trend for institutions to insource investment functions is forcing them to assess whether their operating model are the right f…