Essential ingredients

If you are a trader setting up your own hedge fund, you may have strong ideas as to the investment strategies you wish to pursue. You may well also have firm ideas as to how to best administer your fund. But are you certain about the technology you will need to put those strategies into action? Do you know what software and hardware you require or how your systems will interface with those of your prime broker? Indeed, why should you? You are, after all, an investment expert, not a technologist