Gemini Alternative Funds has won the 2016 Hedgeweek USA Award for Best North American Managed Account Platform.
Representatives from Gemini Alternative Funds were on hand to accept the award at a ceremony in New York City on 15 September 2016.
Institutional investors and fund managers who read Hedgeweek voted online to choose winners of the publication's annual awards. Gemini Alt's dedicated managed account offering and its Galaxy Plus Fund Platform offering received more votes from these audiences than any other contender in the North American managed account platform category. Gemini Alt's platform was launched in November, 2013 and services close to USD700 million in assets.
"We are committed to providing an institutional level experience with transparency, frequency of liquidity and depth of reporting for investors who diversify their portfolios with alternative strategies," says David Young (pictured), president of Gemini Alt. "The fact that institutional investors and fund advisors from across the industry selected us to receive this award means a great deal to us, and we are grateful to Hedgeweek and its readers for recognising our efforts to create a lower-cost and more flexible solution for investing in alternatives."
Gemini Alt's Galaxy Plus platform's open-architecture infrastructure provides all investors, regardless of investment size, with an institutional level investing experience. Galaxy Plus provides access to a variety of alternative investment strategies with lower investment minimums, transparency, access to near real-time data, notional funding capabilities, risk monitoring and management services and frequency of liquidity.
Gemini Alt conducts qualitative and quantitative due diligence on fund advisers, as well as counter-party risk assessments on all clearing relationships.
In addition, The Gemini Companies' sales and distribution network gives advisers access to a broad array of investors, including mutual funds, family offices, pension plans and endowments, foundations, private equity, and high-net-worth individuals.
"Gemini Alt draws on the extensive resources available through The Gemini Companies to help investors and advisers effectively reach their goals," says Andrew Rogers, chief executive officer of The Gemini Companies. "We are proud of our team at Gemini Alt, and we will continue to work together to offer a centralised framework of services that can improve the alternative-investing experience."
