Alternative Fund Services

Alternative asset and investor servicing

Your complexity is our business as usual 

The rapid growth of alternative investments has increased competition. Managers are developing innovative products to attract investors at pace, which is increasing the operational burdens of managing new, complex assets and vehicles.

We thrive on assisting clients with everything from product structuring to managing operational complexity so you can focus on your investments and investors. Our alternative asset and investor servicing team deliver high-quality custody, fund administration, tax , depositary , and investor services for both liquid and illiquid strategies. We support closed- and open-ended vehicles, as well as those investing in both public and private assets, guiding you through regulatory frameworks, tax regimes, and market dynamics.

Our data and automation tools streamline processes and deliver insights across asset classes, giving you a comprehensive view to meet the needs of investors, regulators, and fund boards.

Your investments are handled with precision. We deliver a consistent, responsive, and integrated experience—because we know that the difference is in the detail.

Asset classes serviced

We support some of the most complex real estate and infrastructure funds investing across Europe, the U.S., and Asia.
 
We aggregate information flows from fund and investment vehicles in multiple jurisdictions across the full investment lifecycle. Our digital tools consolidate and visualize that information for your teams, your stakeholders, and regulators.

Our services include fund administration, depositary, transfer agency, and investor servicing.

We service a wide range of private equity strategies, from mainstay mid-market buyout to highly customized multi-strategy, in closed and open fund wrappers including liquid alternatives.

Our expertise covers a multitude of structures, including umbrellas with sub-funds, parallel funds for different investor bases, regulated and unregulated, closed, semi-open and open-ended funds, as well as separately managed accounts.

Our services include fund administration, depositary, transfer agency, and investor servicing.

Our ability to simplify and aggregate workflows and reporting across syndicated and illiquid private debt provides a unique opportunity to streamline and scale your operating model, eliminate inefficiencies, and reduce risk and cost.

We support a vast array of loans, from unitranche direct and secondary sub-participations, to syndicated senior collateralised loans as well as dislocation and distressed debt.

Our services include fund administration, depositary, transfer agency, and investor servicing.

Our platform supports a wide variety of hedge fund strategies. These range from opportunistic or event-driven, to high frequency algorithmic funds, from daily traded to weekly and monthly dealing, and from structured products to high volume OTCs.

Our services include fund administration, depositary, transfer agency, and investor servicing.

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