Challenges
In today's investment climate, hedge funds are required to maintain compliance with an array of regulatory requirements and to quickly adapt to new and evolving regulations. More than ever before, hedge funds are required to build and maintain institutional-level operational integrity and credibility. Implementing systems and operations conducive to operational reliability,  risk management and transparency is a necessity. Operational due diligence for raising new assets, increasingly from institutional investors, requires a comprehensive and robust technology infrastructure. 

Solutions
We employ our decades-long experience and our robust platform to quickly and cost effectively bring our hedge fund clients to high levels of operational efficiency; combined with the attending enhancement in risk management and transparency,  this facilitates the increase of assets under management.

Results
The combined effect facilitates profitability and enables growth, especially for emerging managers who are confronted with mounting operational expenses eating away at their profits. Our work can result in savings of up to 75% in the middle and back office

No license payments for a year
For the deployment and use of our SaaS Front-to-Back integration platform we offer zero upfront costs and zero licence fees for the first six months; the following six months payments are deferred. Your first licencing cash outlay will be in the second year, after you've already realized gains. Your only costs in your first year will be any installation and customization work you require.

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Solutions at a glance

Straight Through Processing of Trades

• Trades entered by your trading desk into their system are immediately available for trade enhancement and transmission to third parties or systems such as: Risk Management, Performance Attribution, Clearing/Settlement systems, Accounting system and Brokers.
• Trade data accuracy is verified and, based on your business rules, trades are automatically enhanced when possible.

Workflow Optimization

• Trade management workflow is securely controlled and apportioned according to instrument type, strategy, book and users' level of authority.
  
• Middle office staff only see and work on trades which require attention. 
• Enhancement data for all instrument types is easily accessible 

P&L Reconciliation

• Individual trading desks, middle office, books and records systems, your Administrator; each maintain their own P&L. We enable reconciliation reporting at the touch of a button to provide everyone with a clear, company-wide view, right-time.

Compliance

• Real time monitoring of trades and positions enables transparency and compliance, delivers pro-active alerts to key stakeholders
• Risk Management data is readily available and transmitted to your risk management systems or service providers at the touch of a button
• Performance attribution and analysis data is always available, right-time, and can be  transmitted to various systems and service providers automatically
  
• Real-time monitoring of trades and positions by operations management and investment management staff enables maximum levels of transparency.

Scaling and Growth

• Adding new strategies, incorporating new trading desks, instruments and trades can be accomplished in timeframes that enable you to capitalize on market opportunities as a front-runner. 

Whom we serve

Hedge Funds
Maximizing front-to-back integration and workflow automation: 

• centralizes your data
• optimizes operations 
• facilitates regulatory compliance: present and future
• reduces costs 
• paves the way for growth by facilitating increase in assets under management and enabling easy entry into new strategies and asset classes. 

Funds of Funds
Maintaining transparency and right-time controls is critical. Our Front-to-Back integration platform enables you to easily aggregate trade, position, P&L and other data from multiple Funds into one coherent, live data-set. 

• The aggregated, cleaned, normalized, right-time data from all funds enables reporting, alerts, controls and analysis that are otherwise inconceivable. 
  
• Shadowing of multiple funds middle and back office (not only books and records) allows you to react preemptively to avert potential violations of mandates or regulations.
  
• Put all the information you need at your fingertips and deliver to your investors an assurance of your control and transparency.

Your own CTO - when you need one
Hiring a full time CTO can be prohibitive. We tailor fractional-CTO engagements to cover all your needs and minimize your costs. 
You gain competitive advantage, free up your partners and senior management to focus on core tasks and secure optimal management of all your technology needs.
Strategic

• We work with your senior management to leverage technology not only to satisfy your business' current requirements but to also facilitate your sustained growth 
• With decades of experience in the asset management industry we are able to provide insight and help you rapidly react to market conditions
• We have the ongoing knowledge of available options and detailed understanding of underlying factors required for successful technology product and service selection

Execution

• We are intimately familiar with the technology procurement process and able to manage all aspects of it from RFP to installation
• Managing optimal technology implementation and customization ensures you maximize return on your technology investments
• We constantly monitor changes in the industry and your business and adapt your technology 
• We have the expertise to manage your technology staff and vendors 

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*Preliminary Workflow Analysis and Cost/Benefit Analysis designed to assess the extent of savings/profits you may be able to realize upon completion of our work.