Turning up the tech in times of uncertainty
09.06.2025 – Articles
Firms focused on upgrading and automating their finance and ops functions will win out in these stubbornly uncertain and volatile times, writes Andre Boreas of Quadsight.
During the Great Financial Crisis of 2008–2009, I served as the Chief Investment Officer of a large, New York City–based single-family office. I don’t think I slept much during that period. Watching the markets convulse as the global financial system teetered on the edge of collapse was deeply unsettling.
Amid the uncertainty, one priority quickly rose above all others: communication. The barrage of questions and information requests from the family and other stakeholders was relentless. Meeting those demands became my primary focus, which meant placing urgent, often repeated, data requests on the underlying managers we were invested in.