Hedge Funds Information Kit

Powered by Geneva, Advent’s hedge fund solution dramatically simplifies the management of complex global instruments for large and small firms alike. Get more information instantly by accessing our Info Kit.

CASE STUDY

• Adelphi Adelphi Capital
  London based hedge fund manager made significant improvements to operational efficiency reducing process times by up to 60% on daily basis using Advent technology.
• Ares Management LLC
  Diversified alternative investment firm needed a portfolio management solution that could support a full range of asset types, and manage large trading volumes quickly and accurately. By utilizing Geneva they saw dramatic gains in speed, efficiency and growth.

WHITE PAPERS

• Managing Risk in a New World: Best Practices for Hedge Funds
  In the wake of the financial crisis, managing risk has become a critical issue for hedge funds. Today hedge fund managers must manage historical risks and new and emerging risks, as well as respond to a changing investor mentality and regulatory environment.
• Offshore Funds: A Pathway to Growth White Paper
  Practical Guide to Operational Imperatives for Hedge Fund Managers
• Trends in Alternative Investment Regulation
  This white paper examines two core regulatory reforms which will carry significant repercussions for Swiss-based alternative investment managers over the coming years: the European Union’s Alternative Investment Fund Management Directive (AIFMD) and Undertakings for Collective Investments in Transferrable Securities (UCITS).

VIDEOS

• Davidson Kempner Capital Management LLC
  Robert Melnyk, Managing Director, discusses how Geneva®, and its scalable platform, helped automate their operations to give their firm the flexibility to reduce exposure and even improve the quality of their work environment.
• Geneva® Road Map
  Todd Gottula, SVP of Product Development, discusses how Geneva’s ever-increasing breadth and depth helps our clients manage their portfolios from trade capture to investor accounting, resulting in full transparency from investment to investor, all on a single platform.
• Geneva QuickStart
  Start-up hedge funds and smaller firms are aware of Geneva’s role as the industry standard global portfolio management system, but the process to implement Geneva® has kept many on the sidelines, according to Katherine Pearce from Advent.  Now with Geneva QuickStart, it’s never been easier for a start-up or a growing firm on a tight budget to get up and running on Geneva.
• Bank Debt
  Bank debt is a hot topic in the news, but processing bank debt instruments is no easy task and rife with risk. Robert Roley of Advent Software discusses the bank debt world and how Geneva® automates an often manual process.

DEMO

• Geneva Product Demo
  Demo Geneva, Advent’s full financial accounting and real time investment platform which offers a unified data model to support all instruments, all departments, and all offices across a firm.

PRODUCT BRIEFS

• Geneva Product Brief
  Learn how Geneva can help you streamline, automate, and integrate the investment management process across your entire organization.
• Geneva Quickstart Implementation
  Learn more about the fast, fixed-cost way to get up and running on Geneva.
• Tamale RMS Product Brief
  Explore the components of Tamale RMS and how it integrates and organizes information from disparate sources – around the workflows of each investment professional. See how its intuitive and easy-to-use interface requires minimal learning curve and training costs.
• Advent Syncova Margin
  Learn how Syncova can improve the management and transparency of costs related to margin, financing and stock borrowing for hedge funds. With solutions that facilitate improved analysis, reconciliation, replication, optimization, alerting and reporting available on a hosted or on-site basis. 
• Geneva Security Coverage
  Geneva supports a broad range of security types with comprehensive reference data, specialized transaction types, industry accounting calculations, and workflow automation that streamlines the management of the most complex instruments.