Launching a New Fund and Striving for Operational Excellence? Let Us Guide You

In today’s complex regulatory environment, investors are focusing more and more of their due diligence efforts on the service providers used by fund managers. In order to raise additional capital, fund managers are finding that they must not only deliver on performance but on their operational effectiveness and vendor selection. It is important to remember that a firm’s service partners are an extension of their overall business and a reflection of firm values, priorities and decision making.

	STAY AHEAD OF TODAY’S COMPLEX REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT. By creating a culture of compliance in your organization, making it a priority, and partnering with firms that can help define your regulatory risks, you can work to avoid costly mistakes that could lead to current financial harm or the loss of prospective investors.
	DEVELOP SERVICE PARTNER RELATIONSHIPS AND AN INTERNAL CULTURE PREDICATED ON INFORMATION SECURITY. It’s not only important for your firm to have a sound data security policy in place, it is equally important that your service providers have strong cybersecurity. Protecting your firm and investor information is crucial to attracting and retaining capital.
	EXCEED EXPECTATIONS DURING CRITICAL OPERATIONAL DUE DILIGENCE EXAMINATIONS WHEN RAISING CAPITAL. It’s important to have robust policies and procedures in place and to ensure your service providers have an institutional quality control environment and infrastructure, which will allow for a more efficient ODD discussion with prospective investors.
	ESTABLISH A SCALABLE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT ALLOWS YOUR FIRM TO BE SUCCESSFUL AT ANY AUM SIZE. Having the required resources in place and accessible by selecting key partners that can service your funds at any asset level is vital to successfully meeting investor expectations whether you are at $50M, $500M, or $5B in assets.
	INCREASE YOUR FIRM’S LONG-TERM POSITION BY RAISING CAPITAL THROUGH A VARIETY OF PRODUCTS. Building a team with diverse financial backgrounds and partnering with service providers that can support various products (Private Funds, Mutual Funds, ETFs, SMAs, etc.) permits investment advisors to reach a broad investor base and raise more capital than would have been possible with a single product.

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