{"id":17325,"date":"2010-08-20T06:38:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T10:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=17325"},"modified":"2010-08-20T06:44:52","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T10:44:52","slug":"hedge-fund-launch-gravitas-knowledge-process-outsourcing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2010\/hedge-fund-launch-gravitas-knowledge-process-outsourcing.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Launch: Gravitas Knowledge Process Outsourcing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release &#8211; Gravitas,  a leading provider of business consulting and technology solutions to the alternative investment and financial services industries, announced today the launch of Gravitas Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/New-York.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-17328\" title=\"New York\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/New-York-300x287.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/New-York-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/New-York.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Gravitas KPO  services provides alternative investment managers with access to advanced analytical and technical skills supporting core front office functions of investment research, risk management and investor relations. KPO clients will be able to leverage Gravitas\u2019 model of integrating people, processes and enabling technology to meet the competitive demands of today\u2019s market.\u00a0 These services were previously only used by the largest hedge funds and sell-side firms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s fund  managers face fierce competition and are working to address the business challenges of\u00a0 raising capital, managing costs and productivity of\u00a0 the firms\u2019 most valuable front office resources\u00a0 and overall improvement of fund performance,\u201d said Gravitas CEO Jayesh Punater. \u201cOur clients can take advantage of our alpha additive services provided through bundled technology, economies of scale, and the efficiency of our dedicated teams in the US and India.<\/p>\n<p>The company already has several KPO clients from alternative asset management firms and is in pilot discussions with several other potential clients.<\/p>\n<p>Gravitas will  offer KPO services through a new business line, headed by Steven Richard in New York. Knowledge Process Outsourcing compliments Gravitas\u2019 current suite of services, which includes business consulting services, software development and system integration.<\/p>\n<p>Editing by Alex Akesson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release &#8211; Gravitas, a leading provider of business consulting and technology solutions to the alternative investment and financial services industries, announced today the launch of Gravitas Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO). Gravitas KPO services provides alternative investment managers with access [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-launches","category-hedgeco-news","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17325"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17327,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17325\/revisions\/17327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}