Northern Trust Forms Alliance for ‘Whole Office’ Strategy

Northern Trust has partnered with BlackRock to create an end-to-end investment ecosystem for both its asset manager and allocator clients that will encompass everything from trading services and operations to data insights and analytics. According to a story in The Trade news, the launch of ‘Whole Office’, an open architecture strategy, is aimed at providing clients with services at all points of the investment lifecycle through a combination of proprietary services and partnerships. The link will provide clients with increased efficiency, interoperability, and transparency across the back-, middle- and front-office, with operations, data, and servicing capabilities.