ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS

Lawyers are the first stop when creating a fund, but by dealing directly with them you are leaving out common practice and knowledge from the operational side.  I have created a checklist to help with the process from years of experience.  Based on your setup and structure, Cardinal Financial Consulting will help you pick an administrator, auditor and tax accountant. 

Admins are a particularly important aspect of reporting for investors. Official books and records for your investment funds, what could go wrong right?  Well, consistency is key.  Having Cardinal Financial Consulting consistently review your admin’s work gives you piece of mind that no matter the circumstances with your administrator you will have a consistent voice to your investors to give them comfort that not only do you have an administrator, but you also have someone looking over the entire processes as well.

Your fund is now up and running and your returns are strong…the checks are writing themselves…nothing to worry about, right?  There are annual filings to the government and routine due diligence calls with investors.  Having Cardinal Financial Consulting handle these filings and calls provides you more time to focus on the more important decisions.

From pitch decks to historical returns, Cardinal Financial Consulting can create custom reporting so you can present the information in a digestible format for your investors or prospects.  Cardinal Financial Consulting wants to tell your story as well as your historical returns.

As the documents are drawn up and investors start showing interest, you start trading right?  Yes and no…you can trade right away, but is your data being stored and sorted accurately?  Does your admin have access?  Does your trade management system feed correctly?  Do you want to create internal reporting for fast and efficient reporting for internal decisions and external reporting?

Year end rolls around and you have some very tight deadlines, between lining up your administrator to compile the information and then relying on them to have it turned around to the auditor in a matter of days. Cardinal Financial Consulting provides a year end snapshot that is automatically being sent to all your investors.  Having an extra set of eyes reviewing the reports and making sure that you are disclosing what you need to in an accurate manner that is in line with the industry standard is our goal.

From historical data conversion and performance calculations to system migration, we have a solution. Sometimes that initial system you implemented cannot grow with your firm and you need someone who has the experience to get all parties to work together. Maybe you have been investing for years and are ready to pitch your idea out to investors, but don’t have the time or capacity to work on the analytics. Cardinal can step in, digest and calculate your returns.

As much as running a hedge fund is investing, it is also a business.  So many functions like payroll, benefits and overhead to take care of, just another task that can be handled by Cardinal Financial Consulting.