Why Alternative Fund Consulting (AFC). 

A specialized advisory consultancy to hedge funds and alternative investing asset managers. Distinguishable since we provide under one firm, the execution, expertise and support across many of the legal, business operations and regulatory support skill sets necessary to execute a successful asset management business. At every stage of a Client’s life-cycle, our professionals provide dedicated or interim c-level expertise to help new, emerging or well established Clients build a business that wins the allocation of todays investors.

Our services.

Our professionals deep know how cuts across investor marketing and business strategy, fund offering structures, compliance management, securities and corporate law matters, fund finance, fund operations, fund risk management framework or fund manager diagnostics. All AFC partners have at least two decades of extensive experience advising the spectrum of conventional to complex asset management firms. AFC offers the advantage of a team of professionals collaborating both within AFC and with each Client to offer holistic solutions to the business gaps that may unknowingly cause investor rejection.

Project based or sustainable C-level outsourcing to fund managers across: infrastructure, fund products, securities & corporate law, finance, compliance, operations, enterprise risk management, business and marketing strategy.

Unlike law firms or other consultancies, we proactively collaborate with fund managers through the maze of fund manager issues and pitfalls. Since no one size fits all, we tailor our hands on services to our Client’s specific need, infrastructure cycle, and budget. AFC helps its Clients in a pragmatic and scalable manner satisfy investor concern about business safety of assets to project value in management. The market for funds is continuing to grow but todays alternative investing business requires capital along with a holistic understanding of strategically growing a fund business.

Offering structures, fund formation, organizational structure, fund securities and corporate law, marketing and business offering strategy.

We help our Clients develop tailored and pragmatic investor offering products that match strategy, investor need and existing or needed infrastructure framework. To curb manager rejection by peer selection, we believe our holistic approach to launching a fund, managed account or trading adviser business is critical to proactively manage todays challenging environment due to increasing investor and regulatory expectations.

In depth diagnostic analysis to help emerging or well established managers achieve a competitive business advantage.

Investors before investing now place the safety of assets equally with performance to insure they meet liability obligations and mitigate reputational risk. We offer the range of Client collaboration across investor, regulatory and infrastructure expertise by partner level professionals at every stage of a firms development. Our in-depth diagnostic reviews, recommendations or solutions help to curb the mistakes or gaps that hinder marketing success or may create reputational risk. During periods of change or need we can provide the high level expertise and solutions our Client executives expect.

Our value proposition:

• We know what works and what does not work;  
• scalable & tailored to client need so our Client executives can focus on trading and avoid the conflicts that trigger investor rejection by peer selection;
• our professionals complimentary skills offers big picture solutions no matter the scope of need;  
• “real world” enterprise wide expertise to help our Clients reduce firm risk of loss, legacy cost inefficiencies, reputational and enterprise business risk;
• we can help Clients augment their business strategy to separate from the pack; and
• our Clients benefit from deep and evolving industry relationships and resources not otherwise available to a client organization.  

Our philosophy and team.

Our business philosophy is to achieve an in-depth understanding of each Client’s short and long term business goals to help sharpen its business edge. AFC professionals share the knowledge of what works for your peers from their deep industry experience working (buy side and sell side) within and externally advising the spectrum of institutional asset management firms, cutting edge law firms and emerging hedge funds. Each AFC partner has at least two decades of deep real world executive and advisory experience within its core area of expertise. Our professionals complimentary skill sets across the spectrum of fund manager responsibilities offers the added advantage of a big picture approach by AFC no matter the Client need.

Alternative Fund Consulting (AFC) is a specialty legal and business management consultancy to alternative investing managers and their advisory firms. AFC is the sister affiliate of  FundAdvisor, LLC, a legal and business management advisory firm since 2007.