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According to a Capco study (2003), 'over 50% of hedge fund failures in the past 20 years are attributable to operational risk rather than bad investment decisions'
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| AIS's flexible approach to trade capture and AISdirect, our proprietary reporting platform, reinforce our service priorities. AIS conforms to the needs of our clients, not the other way around.
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| AIS processes full range of securities, derivatives and strategies. Our managers have confidence in an operational infrastructure and service that provides daily reconciliation and accurate daily reporting.
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| Fund managers using AIS are able to satisfy the growing investor demand for transparency.
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| The combination of Straight-Through-Processing with the daily reconciliation of cash, positions and trades results in less human error and fewer breaks and fails.
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| Through the AISdirect reporting platform the manager reviews daily performance by trading book, strategy and grouped trades that make up a trade idea. AISdirect Reports ensure money manager spends time productively assessing portfolio performance and not gathering information.
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| State-of-the-art technology, experience and proprietary business processes combine to provide an operational infrastructure that few funds have the expertise, time or money to recreate. AIS service qualifies as fund expense.
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| Straight-Through-Processing allows efficient use of time and systems. AIS resolves problems using exception reporting. A fully integrated general ledger system enables flexible reporting and comprehensive controls.
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| AISdirect , our proprietary reporting package provides P&L attribution and middle office reports such as margin, action and collateral analysis. The managers' time is spent on assessing investments, strategies, research and risk management and not on operational issues . |
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| Kiviat chart above compares two approaches to fund administration as it relates to the operational issues facing hedge funds. AIS demonstrates marked improvements over the traditional fund administration model. Place your mouse over labels for more details.
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