Buy-Side Technology Awards 2025 winner’s interview: SS&C Advent

SS&C Advent walked away from this year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards with two category wins: Best portfolio accounting platform and Best performance measurement and attribution product. Co-general manager of SS&C Advent Karen Geiger discusses the firm’s recent success.  

• SS&C Advent’s wins came in two quite distinct categories. To what extent is the firm’s strategy driven by a desire to offer products and services covering all buy-side business processes from the front to the back office?
• What are you hearing from the buy side right now about the day-to-day technology and operational challenges facing firms? Are these challenges more industry-wide, macro-type challenges, or are they driven by specific business processes/needs?
• SS&C Advent has a proud history of introducing innovation across its products, even though Advent Portfolio Exchange, Geneva and Sylvan have been in the industry for more than 25 years. To what extent is surfacing innovation part of the firm’s DNA, and does it happen organically or is there a more formalized effort to drive innovation? 

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