What We Do

What are
Alternative
Investment
Funds?

Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) are collective investment vehicles that allow investors to participate across a number of ‘alternative’ asset classes. Examples of such asset classes include hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds and real estate funds.
The introduction of the AIFMD regulation in the European Union has brought these types of funds into the mainstream and today they have become a very popular investment option for institutional, professional and eligible retail investors.
AIFs are quite useful for they are governed by lighter and more flexible regulation, compared to UCITS, vis-a-vis their licencing process, investment restrictions and liquidity requirements, whilst as the same time enjoying all the benefits of UCITS in terms of investor protection and a cross-border marketing ‘passport’.
AIFs may be set up in umbrella form; meaning the creation of an AIF with more than one investment compartment or multiple sub-funds. Even though an umbrella AIF is a single legal entity, the assets and liabilities of each sub-fund are fully segregated and each can follow entirely different investment strategies.

Fund
Management

As an AIFM (Alternative Investment Fund Manager), we have the capacity to develop innovative AIF-based financial product in-house for market consumption. Additionally, we can create such financial product in conjunction with investment managers who require an ideal fund structure to match their requirements.
We provide end-to-end solutions that span market need from fund formation and authorisation to ongoing management and administration of funds.

Portfolio
Management

When working with investment managers in need of fund solutions, we can assist in the establishment of a fund’s investment strategies and policies, as well as help develop appropriate processes for the efficient and effective identification, evaluation and selection of investment opportunities.
When it comes investments, we help establish optimised acquisition and divestiture processes and procedures.
All funds require ongoing monitoring and analysis of portfolio investments. We provide such services along with taking care of the frequent reporting requirements to stakeholders on the performance of investments as well as market and macroeconomic conditions.

Risk
Management

Financial products require proper risk management policies, procedures and limits. We provide to investment managers coordinating their product with us the much needed comfort of ongoing quantitative and qualitative risk and liquidity monitoring of investments and portfolios to ensure continuous compliance within set limits.
In order to properly manage exposure and leverage, we continuous test and re-evaluate applicable risk measurement and management systems.
Risk management is about knowing your risk. Hence, we can help to establish efficient escalation and reporting systems to a fund’s management and supervisory bodies.

Administration

Fund management also includes more mundane administrative aspects. When we work with fund managers, we provide associated services such as the management of fund legal and fund management accounting services, customer inquiries, the maintenance of units / shareholder registers, record keeping, contract settlement, including certificate dispatch.
Additionally, we take care of valuation and pricing (including tax returns), regulatory compliance monitoring and distribution of income, as well as unit / share issuance and redemption.

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