UMB Fund Services: The unlisted closed-end fund structure—primarily interval funds and tender-offer funds—allows asset managers to access the mass affluent market while addressing the liquidity challenges of alternatives and illiquid securities. Read more…

Bain & Co., by Vishy Padmanabhan, Prasad Sankaran, Adi Prakash, and Rajneesh Sethi – Two decades into the migration to the cloud model, most companies have already shifted some of their workloads and committed to shifting more to the cloud. But surprisingly few have been able to capture as much value as they could if they pursued the cloud model more aggressively. Read more…

Murano – During the 1970’s, the average consumer saw between 500-1700 ads a day. By 2007, this had risen to over 5,000 ads per day. Today, the average consumer is subject to anywhere from 6,000 to 10,000 ads every day. We now also combine this with LinkedIn, Twitter, WhatsApp, Bloomberg, email, etc. We have become professionals at sorting with very short attention spans and can feel so disconnected from any real issue since if we don’t like what we see or hear, we tend to ignore it. Read more…