Louis Rosato

Global Head of Investment Operations
BlackRock

Louis John Rosato, III, Director, is a member of BlackRock’s Global Investment Operations Leadership. He oversees Business Strategy and Industry Relationship Management with Blackrock’s Clients, Counterparties, Providers and Industry Partners within Investment Operations, and is responsible for global oversight across the Post Trade and Asset Servicing functions for all products including Cash Securities, Foreign Exchange and Derivatives in partnership with Regional and Functional Leadership Teams. He is a member of the firms Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange, Equity, Liquidity, Cross Trading and Product Resource Oversight Committees.

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Lou.

Download The Latest Agenda

InvestOps DAY ONE - 18 MARCH 2020

Wednesday, March 18th, 2020

9:00 AM Buy Side Keynote Interview: Creating a culture for innovation- How can you build a best-in-class operations division that eliminates silos and drives the required changes within your business?

What does an operationally efficient team set up look like that combines automation with the human touch so your teams can focus their resources where they are truly needed?
How to leverage internal stakeholders from the operations and technology teams to better communicate across divisions and meet your company objectives
Enabling trading across multiple locations: How can you optimize business processes to adapt to an increase in trading locations, volumes and product complexity?
How can you align your global and regional workforce strategies to break silos whilst still complying with global regulatory demands?
Risk vs.reward: How to evaluate risk and measure performance of new technology to establish what is best to include in your operating model

11:30 AM All Star Panel: Strike a balance - How to modernize investment operations through people, processes and technology to increase efficiency?

What roles are being hit by digitalization and efficiency demands and which areas are seeing growth with new talent?
What approaches are firms taking now to keep up with the evolving role of the operations division?
What does the ideal digitalized investment operations division look like and how can this be achieved?
Assessing the remaining manual functions – What should you be looking to automate next to reduce the human touch and bring scalability and speed to your division?
How technology is changing the nature of functions within operations - What skills should you now be looking for when hiring for the future?

3:20 PM Buy-side only Workshop: How can asset managers combine pre-trade activities between custodians, prime brokers and broker-dealers to increase transparency for the front office to drive efficiency and streamline processes?

How to build template answers/data by fund strategy to custodian pack questions to be cost efficient
Entering data and submitting documents for each fund once, which is then shared across multiple counterparties (broker-dealers, custodians, prime brokers)
Obtaining real-time Ready-To-Trade (RTT) status of your funds, products, and markets per fund and broker-dealer
Achieving front-office benefits such as: eliminating trade breaks related to broker account mismatches, allocations are done correctly the first time, and more

InvestOps USA 2020

Louis Rosato

InvestOps DAY ONE - 18 MARCH 2020

9:00 AM Buy Side Keynote Interview: Creating a culture for innovation- How can you build a best-in-class operations division that eliminates silos and drives the required changes within your business?

11:30 AM All Star Panel: Strike a balance - How to modernize investment operations through people, processes and technology to increase efficiency?

3:20 PM Buy-side only Workshop: How can asset managers combine pre-trade activities between custodians, prime brokers and broker-dealers to increase transparency for the front office to drive efficiency and streamline processes?

Our Sponsors: