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Agecroft Partners: Best Third Party Marketing Firm – In order to attract high quality hedge funds and help grow their assets, a hedge fund consulting and marketing firm needs to nurture its reputation for having strong investment knowledge, being ethical and highly selective in terms of the hedge funds it chooses to represent. Agecroft Partners is a consulting and third party marketing firm whose objective is to be viewed in the marketplace as a thought leader within the hedge fund industry; a firm of high institutional quality and representing some of the top hedge funds in the industry.
Don Steinbrugge (pictured),
Horseshoe: Best Offshore Hedge Fund Administrator – As the pace of change accelerates, operational excellence, customisation and innovation becomes critical. In view of this, Horseshoe is focused on growing its brand in the fund administration industry by launching services to help clients streamline their processes and improve their efficiency.
The firm’s developments are testament to its commitment to the industry. One example of this is the Horseshoe Investor Onboarding Portal (HIOP). Brian Desmond (pictured) FCA, CSO and EVP Head of Fund Services, Horseshoe, gives further detail: “Our proprietary platform built in house in 2018 is becoming a real differentiator for us.
UMB Fund Services: Best Hedge Fund Administrator – A top priority for UMB Fund Services is the client experience. One of the essential building blocks is a considerable investment in technology which helps ensure UMB’s clients have at their disposal a wide range of tools to support their own product offering to investors.
“We are continually enhancing our online client portal which overlays our proprietary accounting system,” explains Jill Calton, SVP/Executive Director of Alternative Investments, UMB Fund Services.
“Early next year, we plan to release enhanced functionality and a completely new user interface. We are also investing in continued enhancements into the
SS&C Advent: Best Managed Account Platform Technology Firm – Alternative managed accounts have become increasingly popular with institutional investors over the past decade, and Geneva is among the first platforms that enabled fund managers and administrators to service this market at scale.
The “Best Managed Account Platform Technology Firm” award underscores the tremendous versatility of the Geneva platform for managing virtually any type of fund, whether co-mingled or separately managed.
“Alternative fund managers face a big challenge to meet investor demand for transparency and timely, accurate reporting on complex asset classes. These capabilities will prove particularly critical as fund firms seek
SS&C Eze: Best Front to Back Technology Firm – Joining SS&C Technologies in October 2018 has helped Eze Software get closer to its goal of bringing together different parts of the financial ecosystem in efficient and effective ways. Being part of a larger entity has helped Eze extend its knowledge of project management best practices and apply them to help customers tailor and optimise their operations.
Eze Investment Suite and Eze Eclipse sit at the heart of the investment process. These platforms bring together an investment manager’s disparate systems into a single, streamlined workflow – across asset classes, strategies and departments.
EisnerAmper: Best Accounting Firm – EisnerAmper LLP is among one of the nation’s largest accounting firms, with a dedicated and well-established Financial Services Practice that provides audit, tax, and advisory services. Our Financial Services Practice, comprised of the Asset Management and Capital Markets Groups, is the largest industry group within EisnerAmper servicing more than 2,500 financial services clients.
Over the years, EisnerAmper has forged a reputation in the US market for delivering proactive, responsive, high-quality service.
“We have the expertise and skill sets of a Big Four firm, but we also have the nimbleness and personal touch of a family business,”
Opus Fund Services: Best Hedgefund Administrator for Start-Up and Emerging Funds – Championing growth and development both internally and externally, Opus is making big moves to close out 2019 and head into the coming year with vigour.
Opus’ expansion of operations into Enniscorthy, County Wexford in Ireland and their acquisition of the fund administration unit of Advanced Fund Administration (AFA) are just two samples of exciting developments within the firm.
Opus’ Irish expansion, following their authorisation from the Central Bank of Ireland, will lead to the creation of 100 new jobs over five years. Commenting on the expansion of its Irish
Viteos: Best Shadow Accounting Firm – The investment book of record (IBOR) a crucial component for a hedge fund manager, is facing a number of challenges as managers search for alpha. Shankar Iyer (pictured), chief solutions officer at Viteos, explains how innovation is helping hedge funds alleviate some of these pressures.
“We are bringing expertise and tools that eventually drive towards providing better insights. For example, we carried out a pilot for a hedge fund where we took all of their trades for a past period and analysed the cost of placing them through the most optimally priced broker versus the
Anchin, Block & Anchin: Best Accounting Firm for Start-Up Funds – Start-up hedge funds should adopt best practices at the onset as this will help set them up for long-term success. Accounting firm Anchin, Block & Anchin focuses on supporting these nascent businesses and guides them through the process of setting themselves up for growth.
“Many of the funds we are engaged by are not initially subject to SEC registration as they’re below the $50m registration threshold. But we always advise them that if you want a viable business for the long-term, and not stay a US50 – USD75 million fund, you
Imagine Software: Best Risk Management Software Firm – Imagine Software has a 26-year track record for transforming challenges into opportunities for growth and development. Over the past few years, Imagine re-architected its award-winning risk engine and introduced massive parallelisation across a server farm so that it can now handle extremely large, if not limitless, volumes of positions and trades in real time.
“Our new product, Real-Time Risk & Compliance (RRC), was created for FCM’s, prime brokers and large asset managers that require “trading desk analytics” across all of their client positions,” said CEO and Co-Founder of Imagine, Dr Lance Smith (pictured).
