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Your Investment Book of Record Was Built for a Different Era. Is It Still the Right Fit?  

IBOR Replacement for Hedge Funds: What’s Changed, What to Evaluate, and When to Move

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The Economy Endured One Energy Shock. It Can’t Do It Again.

Can the U.S. economy skirt recession again?

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Before You Scale AI, Fix the Data

Key insights from the “What Does a Strong Data & AI Strategy Look Like for Hedge Funds and Asset Managers in 2026?” breakfast briefing panel discussion

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Mar 30 2026
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From the floor at InvestOps 2026: “Good tools are table stakes…trusted data is the differentiator”

InvestOps attendees described a set of problems that will sound familiar to anyone running investment operations today. Validating data across systems that should agree but don’t. Accessing historical records back to inception for transparency requests and audits. Spending hours on manual cleanup before any downstream work can begin.

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Managing short inventory in APAC: Best practices and technology needs

Fragmented regulations, liquidity constraints, and diverse conventions make inventory management essential to capturing APAC's potential.

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Neil Palmer on hedge funds and risk at QuantMinds International

Beacon’s Neil Palmer, Co-Head of Quant Engineering, recently had the opportunity to sit down with Joanna Simpson at QuantMinds International in London. In this brief interview, he discusses the impact of risk in today’s markets on both hedge funds and…

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Hedge funds are on the lookout for new software as a source of competitive advantage

Find out how advanced technologies and system integrations are helping hedge funds improve risk visibility and gain a competitive edge.

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The rise of AI risk management: Safeguarding innovation and trust

Overview As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to revolutionize industries and reshape our daily lives, the need for robust AI risk management frameworks has never been more critical. These frameworks serve as essential guideposts for organizations developing, deploying, and using AI…

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Modernizing the trade lifecycle with AWS: How hedge funds are leveraging best of breed technology

Explore the evolving technology landscape for hedge funds and how they can capitalize on diverse opportunities with the right technologies.

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Using advanced technologies and system integration to improve risk visibility

Find out how advanced technologies and system integrations are helping hedge funds improve risk visibility and gain a competitive edge.

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EKS pod identity: The next step beyond OIDC and IRSA

Overview The objective of this blog is to introduce the concept of EKS Pod identity which is being used to grant IAM permissions to a service account, and only Pods that use that service account have access to those permissions…

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Four steps for hedge funds to move faster from fundraising to growth

Achieve growth and better risk management in the hedge fund industry with Beacon's cross-asset portfolio and risk management platform.

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Hedge fund risk management and regulation concerns rise

These issues could also be impacting successful fundraising All funds plan to boost spending on risk management over the next two years More than half believe regulation challenges will rise over the next three years, Beacon Platform Inc. study shows…

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Peek behind the code at CWAN Engineering. Discover how our team tackles challenges like AI orchestration, auto‑scaling, and zero‑trust.