Investment Operations Blog

October 13, 2026

The Hidden Costs of Spreadsheets for RIAs: 5 Things To Know

Spreadsheets cost investment firms more than they think. Here’s what they really cost RIAs.

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The Hidden Costs of Spreadsheets for RIAs: 5 Things To Know

Investment Operations Consulting & The Power of Partnerships

RIA Back-Office Outsourcing: Why Empaxis

Investment Performance Reporting Best Practices 2026

Reconciliation Outsourcing - How RIAs Save Time & Money

Empaxis Joins Communify, Merging Financial AI with Investment Ops and Data Management Excellence

Why Are Data Silos Problematic for Investment Management? 5 Reasons

RIAs: Is Technology Working for You… or Are You Working for Technology?

Hedge Fund Risk Management: Outsourced vs. In-House Functions?

Is Your Back-Office Operations Person Leaving? 4 Replacement Options

9 Questions to Ask Investment Operations Outsourcing Companies

Most Software Implementations Fail. You Need the Right Partner.

Family Offices in India 2025 - Outlook, Trends, & Services

RIA Billing Solutions

7 AI Use Cases in Wealth Management

Investment Industry Trends

Investment Performance Reporting Best Practices 2026

Family Office Trends 2025

Hedge Fund Trends 2025

Asset Management Trends 2025

Wealth Management Trends 2025

Top 7 Risks of Choosing the Wrong Operations Partner

Why Excel Spreadsheets Are a Problem for Investment Firms

8 Common Hiring Mistakes RIAs Make

Outsourcing Myths: 6 Misconceptions Financial Firms Should Know About

How to Deal with the Stress of Being a Financial Advisor

AI in Investment Management: What To Know and How to Benefit

Fund Administration Outsourcing: Services & Benefits with Empaxis

Modernizing Operations Guide for Saudi Arabian Investment Firms

Financial Services Hiring Trends 2023

Financial Health for RIAs: How to stay prepared in a bear market

RIA Marketing Tips for Your Website

How To Deal With the Labor Shortage in Banking and Financial Services

5 Steps to Digital Transformation in Finance and Investment Management

3 Reasons Older Investment Firms Could Fall Behind

How Money Managers Prepare for Elections

RIA Hiring Best Practices 2020 and Beyond

Investment Management Jobs Where Humans Are Needed Most

Workplace Flexibility Is Here to Stay: How Advisory Firms Adapt Long-Term

How Investment Firms Should React to the Coronavirus: 5 Things to Do

How Wealth Managers Can Work With the Next Generation of Millennials

7 Ways Investment Firms Can Generate Leads Online

How Investment Companies Prepare for The Big One

How Wealth Managers Can Attract Millennial Clients

5 Stats That Explain the Talent Shortage in the Financial Services Industry

Investment Management Success with Retention Best Practices

Checklists in Investment Operations: Lessons from the WHO

Outsourcing Best Practices

Investment Performance Reporting Best Practices 2026

Reconciliation Outsourcing - How RIAs Save Time & Money

Hedge Fund Risk Management: Outsourced vs. In-House Functions?

Is Your Back-Office Operations Person Leaving? 4 Replacement Options

9 Questions to Ask Investment Operations Outsourcing Companies

What is a TAMP?

Launching a New Fund? Let the Investors Know You’re Outsourcing.

Private Equity Investing and Automation for Wealth Managers

Vendor Management Best Practices for Wealth & Asset Managers

Advent Axys and APX Outsourcing Services with Empaxis

Top Middle-Office Outsourcing Providers – How Empaxis Compares

Outsourcing in Saudi Arabia: What Banks and Institutions Should Know

The Benefits of Outsourcing for Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs)

10 Things Execs Lose by Not Outsourcing Their Back-Office Operations

Outsourcing Operations? Managed Services Providers vs. Software Companies

Why Businesses Should Consider Outsourcing General Ledger Accounting

Top 7 Risks of Choosing the Wrong Operations Partner

5 Ways Outsourcing AR/AP Can Transform Your Business

Employee Turnover: Is the Person Who Knew How to Do Everything Gone?

Outsourcing Myths: 6 Misconceptions Financial Firms Should Know About

Is Your Firm a Good Candidate for Hedge Fund Back-Office Outsourcing?

How to Outsource Your Middle-Office

Financial Health for RIAs: How to stay prepared in a bear market

RIAs: In-House vs. Outsourcing Your Investment Operations

How GCC Banks & Money Managers Improve Operations & Staffing Efficiency

How To Deal With the Labor Shortage in Banking and Financial Services

Back-Office Outsourcing Services: Helping RIAs Reduce Inflationary Risk

Back-Office Support Solutions - How Empaxis Helps

Endowment Fund Operations Best Practices

How Third-Party Vendors Take Advantage: What You Should Know

Outsourcing Helps Hedge Funds Satisfy Investor Due Diligence Demands

How Outsourcing Can Boost Asset Management M&A Success

Reconciliation Automation Tools To Improve Operational Efficiency

Solving Investment Managers' Staff Hiring Needs the Easy Way

Wealth Management & Family Offices

Family Offices in India 2025 - Outlook, Trends, & Services

RIA Billing Solutions

Family Offices in the Middle East - Outlook and Services 2025

5 Reasons Clients Fire Wealth Managers

Private Equity Investing and Automation for Wealth Managers

Starting a New Job? How Wealth Management COOs Make a Difference

The Rise of Asian Family Offices and the Growing Demand for Talent

Family Offices in Singapore 2025 - Outlook, Trends, and Services

6 Reasons Why Documentation Is Important for Your Investment Operations

Hong Kong Family Offices 2025 - Outlook, Trends, Services

Saudi Arabia Wealth Management: Solutions to Operations & Tech Challenges

The Best 5 Books for Operations Managers

Advent Axys and APX Outsourcing Services with Empaxis

Family Office Trends 2025

Wealth Management Trends 2025

How to Cut Family Office Costs

The Benefits of Outsourcing for Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs)

Why Every Family Office Needs an Operations Expert

How to Increase RIA Valuation: 12 Best Practices

Family Offices in Switzerland 2023 - Outlook, Trends, & Services

Cold Email Marketing Tips for Financial Advisors in 2023

How Small Investment Firms Gain an Edge over Larger Competitors

How To Be a Great Investment Operations Manager

Data Warehousing in Financial Services: Why RIAs Need Centralized Data

Family Offices Investing in Venture Capital: 6 Things to Consider

How to Deal with the Stress of Being a Financial Advisor

4 Steps to Get Started with Automation in Wealth Management

Trade Settlement Services - Post-Trade Processing with Empaxis

How to Build a Wealth Management Practice

How Singapore Investment Firms Stay Competitive Globally

How to Outsource Your Middle-Office

How Family Offices Automate Data Extraction for Investment Statements

Why a Large AUM Isn't Everything

How To Get Your First Client as a Financial Advisor

3 Reasons Older Investment Firms Could Fall Behind

How to Avoid Phishing Scams in Investment Management

How Wealth Advisors Serve Married Couples

How to Establish Benchmarks for Operations

Six Sigma Benefits for Investment Managers

Client Testimonial Best Practices for Investment Advisors

What To Do If Your RIA Website Goes Down

Being Open to New Ideas Requires Commitment & Time on the Calendar

Financial Advisor Website Security Best Practices

Investment Management Jobs Where Humans Are Needed Most

How to Prepare for an SEC Audit

How RIAs Boost Efficiency Through Data Integration

RIAs, How Much Office Space Do You Need?

Do You Have a Post-Coronavirus Business Recovery Plan?

Upskilling Wealth and Financial Managers to the Digital Age

4 Ways to Improve the Advisor-Client Relationship

7 Common Characteristics of a Wealth Management Digital Leader

9 Data Management Tips for Investment Managers

How Wealth Managers Can Work With the Next Generation of Millennials

8 Questions Financial Advisors Should Be Ready to Answer for Clients

What Your Wealth Management Clients Really Want From You

How Wealth Managers Can Reduce Costs and Increase ROI

Why Wealth Managers Should Get New Business in Singapore

The Reason Wealth Managers Aren't Growing Their Business

5 Solutions for Investment Management Operations Problems

Top 5 Operational Headaches for Investment Management Companies

How Wealth Managers Can Attract Millennial Clients

How Investment Firms Can Prepare Their Operations for a Recession

Why the Future Will Get Harder for Wealth Management Firms

There's a Wealth Boom, but Not All Wealth Managers Are Benefitting

Financial Services Fee Compression: How Your Operation Can Manage

How to Stop Employee Idle Time in Investment Operations

Why Investment Management COOs Should Think Like CFOs

Municipal Bonds Setup: What Operations Managers Should Know

Common Pitfalls of Global Fixed Income Security Setup

How Automating Client Onboarding Can Help Small Investment Management Firms

Cyber Security--It’s Not an IT Problem

Asset Management & Hedge Funds

Hedge Fund Risk Management: Outsourced vs. In-House Functions?

Launching a New Fund? Let the Investors Know You’re Outsourcing.

6 Asset Management Challenges in Operations and How to Overcome Them

6 Reasons Why Documentation Is Important for Your Investment Operations

Why Do Hedge Funds Fail?

The Best 5 Books for Operations Managers

Advent Axys and APX Outsourcing Services with Empaxis

Hedge Fund Trends 2025

Asset Management Trends 2025

The Benefits of Outsourcing for Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs)

How Asset Managers Overcome Data Challenges and Master Snowflake

How to Increase RIA Valuation: 12 Best Practices

Cold Email Marketing Tips for Financial Advisors in 2023

How Small Investment Firms Gain an Edge over Larger Competitors

How To Be a Great Investment Operations Manager

Asset Servicing Solutions Made Simple

5 Asset Management Automation Use Cases

Trade Settlement Services - Post-Trade Processing with Empaxis

Fund Administration Outsourcing: Services & Benefits with Empaxis

Is Your Firm a Good Candidate for Hedge Fund Back-Office Outsourcing?

How to Outsource Your Middle-Office

How Do Hedge Funds Get Clients & Win Sovereign Wealth Fund Mandates

Why a Large AUM Isn't Everything

3 Reasons Older Investment Firms Could Fall Behind

How to Avoid Phishing Scams in Investment Management

How to Establish Benchmarks for Operations

Six Sigma Benefits for Investment Managers

Endowment Fund Operations Best Practices

Client Testimonial Best Practices for Investment Advisors

What To Do If Your RIA Website Goes Down

Being Open to New Ideas Requires Commitment & Time on the Calendar

Financial Advisor Website Security Best Practices

Investment Management Jobs Where Humans Are Needed Most

How to Prepare for an SEC Audit

How RIAs Boost Efficiency Through Data Integration

RIAs, How Much Office Space Do You Need?

Why Alternative Asset Managers Need a TAMP

Do You Have a Post-Coronavirus Business Recovery Plan?

9 Data Management Tips for Investment Managers

5 Solutions for Investment Management Operations Problems

Top 5 Operational Headaches for Investment Management Companies

Outsourcing Helps Hedge Funds Satisfy Investor Due Diligence Demands

How Investment Firms Can Prepare Their Operations for a Recession

Best Practices for Maintaining Clients’ Private Equity & Hedge Fund Data

How Outsourcing Can Boost Asset Management M&A Success

Financial Services Fee Compression: How Your Operation Can Manage

How to Stop Employee Idle Time in Investment Operations

Why Investment Management COOs Should Think Like CFOs

Municipal Bonds Setup: What Operations Managers Should Know

Common Pitfalls of Global Fixed Income Security Setup

Cyber Security--It’s Not an IT Problem

Automation & FinTech

Most Software Implementations Fail. You Need the Right Partner.

What is a TAMP?

Private Equity Investing and Automation for Wealth Managers

DevOps in Fintech: 7 Use Cases

Prompt Engineering: The Ultimate AI Skill for Investment Operations

Target Operating Models: What They Are & How Investment Firms Benefit

Low-Code/No-Code Automation Tools: How Investment Firms Use Them

Back-Office Technology Mistakes RIAs Should Avoid

How Legacy Asset Management Tech Hurts your Business & Repels Talent

A 40-Hour Ad Hoc Performance Request, Empaxis Did It 10x Faster

AR/AP Automation 101: 7 Things Businesses Should Know

Middle Office Automation: 5 Processes to Automate

Outsourcing Quality Assurance Testing - Why Investment Management Software Companies Need 3rd Party Experts

To Master AI, Family Offices Must Learn Prompt Engineering & LLMs

Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and LLMs: The AI Developments Transforming Investment Management

Accelerating Digital Transformation: How Empaxis Streamlines Cloud Migrations for Asset Managers & Software Companies

RPA Team and Project Management: A Blueprint for Implementation Success

RPA for Private Equity Data Processing & The Need for Specialty Vendors

Manual vs. Automation Regression Testing: The Pros and Cons

QA Testing Tool Comparison: Jenkins vs. Mabl

The 10 Most Advanced Automated Software QA Testing Tools

Why Excel Spreadsheets Are a Problem for Investment Firms

Asset Servicing Solutions Made Simple

5 Asset Management Automation Use Cases

Data Warehousing in Financial Services: Why RIAs Need Centralized Data

4 Steps to Get Started with Automation in Wealth Management

ZATCA E-Invoicing Automation for Wealth & Asset Managers

How We Automate Opening New Accounts for Institutional Advisors

AI in Investment Management: What To Know and How to Benefit

Robotic Process Automation in Financial Services Case Study

How RPA Works for Money Managers: What RPA Can and Can't Do

Fee Billing Made Easy for Pension Funds & Institutional Advisors

How Family Offices Automate Data Extraction for Investment Statements

5 Steps to Digital Transformation in Finance and Investment Management

Pros and Cons of Keeping Legacy Portfolio Management Software

Portfolio Management Software: 8 Things to Look For

Why Your Legacy Portfolio Accounting Software Is Letting You Down

How RIAs Boost Efficiency Through Data Integration

How Third-Party Vendors Take Advantage: What You Should Know

What You Risk If You Don’t Get Rid Of Your Legacy Fintech Software

Why Alternative Asset Managers Need a TAMP

How to Make It Easier Moving to a New Portfolio Accounting System

How Pandemics and Other Crises Affect Your Need For Fintech

5 Essential Tools Financial Managers Need to Go Digital in 2020

Upskilling Wealth and Financial Managers to the Digital Age

4 Reasons Why Building Your Own Portfolio Accounting System Is Risky

What is Data Warehousing and How Do Financial Firms Use It?

3 Reasons Financial Bots Fail (And What Advisors Can Do)

Ditch Paperwork and Automate the Client Onboarding Process

Reconciliation Automation Tools To Improve Operational Efficiency

5 Risks of Investment Management Automation

How Automating Client Onboarding Can Help Small Investment Management Firms

Investment Manager Operations Profit from New Automation Tools

Compliance & Security

6 Reasons Why Documentation Is Important for Your Investment Operations

Outsourcing Helps Hedge Funds Satisfy Investor Due Diligence Demands

International Markets

Family Offices in India 2025 - Outlook, Trends, & Services

Family Offices in the Middle East - Outlook and Services 2025

The Rise of Asian Family Offices and the Growing Demand for Talent

Family Offices in Singapore 2025 - Outlook, Trends, and Services

Hong Kong Family Offices 2025 - Outlook, Trends, Services

Saudi Arabia Wealth Management: Solutions to Operations & Tech Challenges

Top Middle-Office Outsourcing Providers – How Empaxis Compares

Asset Management Trends 2025

Outsourcing in Saudi Arabia: What Banks and Institutions Should Know

Family Offices in Switzerland 2023 - Outlook, Trends, & Services

ZATCA E-Invoicing Automation for Wealth & Asset Managers

Modernizing Operations Guide for Saudi Arabian Investment Firms

How Singapore Investment Firms Stay Competitive Globally

How GCC Banks & Money Managers Improve Operations & Staffing Efficiency

RIA Marketing Tips for Your Website

Why Wealth Managers Should Get New Business in Singapore

Reasons Hong Kong Investment Firms Should Outsource

How Investment Managers Can Get New Business in Asia

About Empaxis

RIA Back-Office Outsourcing: Why Empaxis

Most Software Implementations Fail. You Need the Right Partner.

6 Asset Management Challenges in Operations and How to Overcome Them

Empaxis 2024: A Year in Review

Top Middle-Office Outsourcing Providers – How Empaxis Compares

I Visited the Empaxis India Offices. Here Are 7 Major Takeaways.

Why Channel Partnerships Fail in Investment Management

Empaxis: The Team Together Longer Delivers Superior Results

How Empaxis Builds Successful Software Implementation Teams

Message from the New Empaxis President

Why Face-to-Face Communication in India Is Important in Business

Ella Stone Wins Empaxis Scholarship

Reasons to Work at Empaxis

Celebrating the Women of Empaxis

Rachel Williams Chosen as Empaxis Scholarship Winner

Working at Empaxis: Lessons Learned from Our CEO

The Empaxis Advantage: Why We’re a Global Firm

Nikhila Bulusu Receives Empaxis Scholarship for Women in Business

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