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	Hedge Fund Technology
	Systems and Infrastructure
	Tactical & Strategic Consulting
	Trade & STP Architecture
	Business Analysis
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	Operational Risk Assessment
	Application Development & QA
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Trade & STP Architecture

Complexities of running a multi-strategy, multi-asset class portfolio are unrivaled in the Hedge Fund world. You must have a world-class business organization that is completely aligned with a robust technology platform in order to be successful. Hedge Funds that experience rapid growth often experience a bottleneck problem where taking on more capital becomes an issue due to operational inefficiencies and lack of Straight Through Processing (STP).

Having a “plan” or “roadmap” is essential to growing a successful investment management organization. Our business and technology experts were exposed to such “growing pains” during their careers and can help you avoid making mistakes by producing an Architectural Plan to facilitate the growth and diversity of your investment strategies.

One of the major parts of such plan should be an implementation of a Risk Management Platform. Whether it’s an off the shelf product, a custom application, or a combination of the two, risk can not exist in a vacuum. Being the most “data hungry” part of the overall infrastructure, it will require a robust underlying architecture. Coincidentally, it’s one of the major decision factors for private or institutional investors who are keen on scrutinizing the risk management methodology of the fund that is being considered for an investment.

Such engagements generally last between 20 and 40 hours, and produce an extremely valuable document that shows the existing state of the trade workflow model (point A), an ideal “STP Architecture” (point B), as well as a phased roadmap on getting from point A to point B. Clients also get a clear picture of the trade workflow timeline and business processes from T to T+n to Month & Quarter End. Such plans are often non-existent in growing or already established Hedge Fund organizations. This in turn leads to poor decision making while selecting products that need to be aligned with business processes and results in lack of STP