1 Current number of funds to monitor on the platform is around 400 but the aim is to reduce this substantially. For the procurements it depends very much on the number of projects each year and how many tenders are submitted. Roughly estimate is 0-500 per year.
3 Yes
4 At the moment we are only looking at traditional UCITS funds, hence no Hegde funds or PE. This is unlikely to change.
5 Yes we use eVestment and Morningstar as well as other sources and providers such as MSCI, Bloomberg, Nasdaq, SIX, Nordic Bond Pricing, InAlytics and StyleAnalytics.
6 FTN has around 40 employees. We do not divide the employees after access in such a way.
7 FTN does not procure private market structures.
8 FTN does not procure private market structures.
9 FTN only procure UCITS funds so SEC Form ADV has limited use for us.
10 Assuming the question refers to tendering for procurement of a Due Diligence system it is subject to whether FTN decides to launch an RFP or not. The answers submitted to the RFI will form the basis for our decision whether to go forward with a procurement and, if so, how it will be structured.
11 FTN will evaluate the answers from the RFI after the summer holidays and then decide how to proceed. The RFI is not a commitment from FTNs side to do a procurement.
12 FTN has agreements with eVestment, Morningstar, MSCI, Bloomberg, Nasdaq, SIX, Nordic Bond Pricing, InAlytics and StyleAnalytics at the moment.
13 All integrations are subject to evaluation of cost and added functionality. There are no required integrations.