Origin Asset Management LLP is an owner-managed investment boutique specialising in managing long only UK, global and EAFE equity portfolios for institutional clients. Established in December 2004 with a requirement to open for business by May 2005, Origin needed to source premises and establish their operational infrastructure quickly. Origin took the decision to outsource all non-core activities, including IT and investment administration. Outsourcing was attractive from both a strategic and economic point of view and Lindsay Johnston, Partner and Chief Operating Officer at Origin says, “We didn’t want the hassle of running our own IT. We wanted to outsource to IT specialists. We compared the cost of having servers and IT in house to running a virtual office. Lanware’s outsource

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