IndustriesAsset management
Asset management
Financial and operating clarity for investment managers
We help fund managers and investment platforms build the models, reporting and economics behind a strategy, from launch through to scale.
Talk to us about a launch, a strategy review or a valuation.
Who we work with
From first fund to multi-strategy platform
A strategy is only as strong as the infrastructure behind it. The questions change as a manager grows, from launch economics to capital allocation across strategies, so we start with where you are.
Emerging managers
Fund and management company economics, launch budgets, fee structures and the materials that support a first raise.
Established and multi-strategy platforms
Capital allocation across strategies, performance and cost attribution, and reporting that scales with the platform.
Allocators and family offices
An independent view of a manager’s strategy, economics and risk ahead of an allocation.
Decisions we support
The decisions investment managers bring to us
Each one links to the practice that handles it, so you can go from the question in front of you to how we answer it.
Launching or scaling a fund
Management company and fund economics, break-even assets under management and fee structures that align with investors.
Allocating capital across strategies
Comparing strategies on risk, capacity and return, so capital and headcount go where they earn the most.
Evaluating a strategy or portfolio
Return attribution, factor exposures and risk analysis for portfolios and systematic strategies.
Building factor and quantitative models
Research and modeling support for multi-factor and systematic approaches.
Managing market and currency risk
Hedging frameworks for currency, rate and market exposures across the book.
Valuing a manager or a stake
Valuations for partner changes, stake sales and transactions involving investment managers.
Our perspective
A strategy is only as strong as the economics and infrastructure behind it.
We test the fund and management company economics alongside the strategy itself, so a launch or an allocation rests on numbers that hold up as assets grow.
Insights
Related insights
Selected work
See how our engagements come together
From fund economics and capital allocation to valuation and research, our selected work shows the range of companies we serve and the decisions we help them make.
The firm
An independent firm, built around the work
Engagements are principal-led and staffed to the work, drawing on our network of legal, tax and audit partners where a scope requires it.
Many of our relationships continue well beyond the first mandate, as fractional controller or CFO, as research partner, or as adviser on the next raise or transaction.
Principal-ledSenior attention from scoping through delivery.
Hands-onInvolved from the first model through to execution.
For the long termOngoing roles as controller, CFO and research partner.
Questions
Questions investment managers ask us
Do you work with systematic and quantitative strategies?
Yes. We work with managers developing systematic and event-driven strategies, including merger arbitrage, long/short equity, market-neutral and multi-factor models.
Can you help with the economics of launching a fund?
Yes. We model management company and fund economics, including fees, costs and the assets needed to break even, and help prepare the materials investors expect.
Do you only work with companies in British Columbia?
No. We are based in Vancouver and work with companies across Canada and internationally.
What does an engagement cost?
It depends on the scope. After a first conversation we send a written proposal with deliverables, timing and fees, so you know the cost before any work begins.
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