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Specialist Investment Management Consultancy Launches with Institutional Focus

Jem Tugwell Associates sets out to provide a dynamically different perspective on IM challenges

15th October 2009: Jem Tugwell Associates Limited, the specialist investment management consultancy, has unveiled its new portfolio of services, aimed at providing innovative solutions for institutional asset management organisations and the fund management community. Focusing on the specific requirements of the Front Office, Jem Tugwell Associates specialises in solutions that solve complex challenges, across institutional investment management front office, business, strategy and analytics. The company's portfolio ranges from implementing innovative techniques for portfolio monitoring and performance analysis, to exploring new ways of representing value, exposure and risk across multiple asset classes.

Founder Jem Tugwell brings over 20 years' expertise on both the buyside and the sellside of the investment management arena, establishing Jem Tugwell Associates on the basis that there was a clear market opportunity for a new style of consultancy. He explains:
"In the post credit crunch market, fund managers are faced with a challenging task, needing to find new ways of maximising returns in a difficult market, as well as providing concrete evidence of strong performance. Having worked extensively with consultancies in the past, I felt that there was a niche for a new take on the traditional consultancy model. Our philosophy is to take a lateral-thinking approach, aimed at providing innovative and above all totally independent advice to the institutional investment management community. For example, organisations that are looking to link their investment strategies with their performance and attribution methodologies need access to expertise that can take a highly quant-based approach - providing the ability to solve complex mathematical problems, across areas such as derivative valuation and attribution models. We can provide an unprecedented breadth of expertise, across the different asset classes, the specialist software available to solve these challenges, and the functional knowledge required to create top performance scenario analysis systems, as well as attribution methodologies and multi-asset class capability. Our objective is to provide fund managers with the insight and the vision required to ensure that performance excellence can be analysed, monitored and repeated."