Rule Financial’s Hedge Fund team, led by STEVE SWINDON, offer an exceptional service to this burgeoning sector of the financial marketplace. 

The FSA estimates that Europe currently has approximately 400 billion dollars worth of assets under management in hedge funds, a growth of 44% since June 2005. Although fund performance has played a part in this escalation, the most significant increase has been in the flow of money from new investors.While the failure rate of hedge funds is relatively low, today’s investors require additional reassurance that their fund managers have gone to every length to complete due diligence on the efficiency and probity of their operations. There can be no room for doubt.    

This is where Rule Financial can help.
 
We believe that trade flow efficiency is right at the heart of every successful hedge fund, and understanding your operational risk is the first step towards a truly scalable and efficient fund.  Operational risk is the risk of losses arising from deficiencies in a hedge fund’s operational infrastructure.

With the volumes and sheer scale involved, our experience shows that operational risk is greatly underestimated by hedge funds managers, who, understandably, associate profit with alpha generating activities. The idea that this profit may be substantially diminished by operational inefficiencies is only now becoming clear. 

Hedge funds are starting to accept that decreasing dependency on non-alpha generating activities will release capacity.Rule is thus an ideal partner for Hedge Funds thanks to:

• Our experience with Hedge Fund clients
• The quality and experience of our consultants
• Our flexible delivery model
• Our speed of mobilisation and accurate project delivery
• Our commercial flexibility.

Now, by undertaking an operational risk review with Rule Financial, a hedge fund C.O.O. can better understand how his or her operations staff spend their time, and learn how to maximise the benefits of technology.

Straight-Through-Processing (STP) is the ‘nirvana’ of security processing. In the last few years the technology has been developed to process, support and archive the complete lifecycle of each and every trade, with the absolute minimum of manual intervention, drawing the industry ever closer to full STP Rule Financial can advise hedge funds on the most suitable technology for their needs, and use their implementation capability and Project Management skills to ensure a seamless transition to “best practice”. As a hedge fund professional, try asking yourself the following questions…

• How can I make my operations area more efficient?
• How can I decrease my operations staff numbers?
• How can I make my business more scalable without increasing staff?
• Am I making the most of the technology I’ve invested in?
• Do my traders have the technology they need to perform best?

For more information talk to Steve Swindon and his team on 020 7826 7777

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