The AIS platform ties together all participants of the Alternative Investment community to provide high quality Fund Administration and outsourced solutions for Middle and Back Office. AISconnect™ combines the Internet, state of the art Java code, Oracle relational database, and strong encryption methods to provide a cutting-edge Straight Through Processing (STP) platform. Place your mouse over individual components for more detail. Member Login   Data Center   Disaster Recovery Fund Manager AIS provides back office services to Hedge Funds, Fund of Funds, Managed Accounts and Proprietary Trading Desks. Trade Capture Our expertise in systems and technology platforms enables us to capture trade information according to the client preference. Whether we are building custom-made pipes to the manager's front end of choice or supplying a front-end through our alliance with Bloomberg, the trade capture process is effective, intuitive, and efficient.   Prime Brokers/ Custodians AIS transmits end-of-day trade activity files to prime brokers on behalf of the fund and receives in return position, cash and trade files overnight. Interfacing with the fund manager, trading counterparties and prime brokers AIS reconciles trades, positions and cash daily. Reporting through AISdirect ShadoSuite, our general ledger software package (GL) processes the full spectrum of securities and derivatives. Our GL maintains full stock records, investment ledger, security master, corporate actions, and general ledger with full tax lot accounting. AISdirect is our proprietary reporting system. AISdirect offers over 100 reports to our managers including full attribution of assets by trade book, strategy, and trade idea. All of our reports are available as of any date, can capture change in P&L between two dates, are GAAP compliant, and audit friendly.   Risk Management Daily reconciliation and Straight-Through-Processing enables AIS to deliver reconciled portfolios to either a proprietary or third party risk management system on an overnight basis. Executing Brokers Same day electronic trade confirmation process drastically reduces the number of trade breaks and fails, which in turn reduces exceptions and lowers operational costs. AISconnect® Collects intra day trades from the Money Managers Validates trades Distributes to and collects from the Prime Brokers all end-of-day information Investor Using AISdirect , our proprietary reporting platform, fund managers can satisfy the growing demand for transparency on a timely and accurate basis. Administration/ Partnership Accounting Daily reconciliation and reporting through AISdirect facilitates accurate and timely transfer of fund information to the appropriate partnership accounting packages for both onshore and offshore funds. Final portfolio valuation and investor reporting takes place within days of month-end, regardless of types of instruments traded or strategies employed. © Copyright 2005 Alternative Investment Solutions. All Rights Reserved.