FIS SOLUTIONS FOR HEDGE FUNDS

The Agile Hedge Fund

The advent of the Coronavirus pandemic has made meaningless any outlook for the hedge fund market in 2020 and beyond. However the same truisms will hold, the winners in this market will be those hedge funds who can couple their skills with robust risk management techniques. These market leaders will have the agility to exploit the new and significant alpha generating opportunities that these volatile markets will offer.

Outperforming the market and claiming investor dollars have become harder than ever. Fees are being compressed more and more, and at the same time, investors are demanding increasing transparency and governance. The ability to generate alpha is more challenging than ever, while operational costs have been and continue to increase.

To launch successfully and thrive for the long term, today’s hedge funds must be masters of agility.

We see hedge funds like yours diversifying offerings to attract more capital and grow, but new and varied investment strategies, such as credit and convertible bonds, can create risk, operational and reporting complexities that one-size-fits-all systems simply can’t handle. While you focus on alpha generation, you need solutions and services working hard in the background to power your agility.

Do you have the optimal technology and services mix to find exceptional growth?

YOU NEED SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES WORKING HARD IN THE BACKGROUND TO POWER YOUR AGILITY.

The FIS Approach

FIS is freeing hedge funds around the world to pursue opportunities that present themselves. Our flexible, front-to-back-office technology opens new markets and streamlines your operations, while our unique co-sourcing model lets you outsource operational tasks while retaining control.

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FIS™ Can Help You Grow

FIS has an extensive suite of technology solutions and managed services to cover all the operational needs of today’s hedge funds, regardless of strategy or size.

With innovative solutions and flexible services covering the front-to-back-office needs of hedge funds, you can focus on your core competencies and unleash your growth potential.

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Alternative Credit

Virtus from FIS is a front-to-back solution that blends technology and managed services to support the full credit and CLO life cycle.

Our technology provides you with automation and straight-through processing to prevent errors, eliminate duplicative efforts and avoid bottlenecks at all stages of fund and portfolio management. Our technology boosts efficiency for fund managers of debt and equity portfolios, and we ensure you get a customized experience for your business.

The credit and loan space is the Virtus from FIS specialty. When you work with us, you will experience world-class customer service from experts in private credit, with one point of contact across your entire loan platform.

With Virtus from FIS, you can empower your portfolio managers to focus on alpha creation by enabling them to access reliable reporting data and resources through one platform.

Plus, you can grow your business by adding predictability to your operations. Virtus from FIS helps you increase AUM without needing to staff up or drain your resources’ time, because our experts are on hand to help you every step of the way.

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Spotlight on Emerging Managers

As an emerging hedge fund manager implementing sophisticated strategies, you need a front-to back-office platform that manages the complexity of the asset classes you wish to trade at a price-point and cost of ownership that reflects your current business model. At the same time, you need a solution that can support your ambitions to grow and diversify into new strategies.

Front Arena Select has been developed to meet these specific needs providing front to back office capabilities across the broadest range of strategies. Delivered as a hosted, managed service, the solution can be implemented in days – empowering you with rapid time to market for your products and services.

What’s more, you benefit from managed upgrades, so you have continual access to the latest functional improvements. And, because FIS is a proven provider of mission-critical IT infrastructure, you’re ready to handle the most challenging market volumes and volatility. You benefit from high performance, flexibility, scalability and resilience at the most crucial times – and on a global basis.

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Find Your Potential With AgilityGet to know FIS’ solutions and services for hedge funds

Derivatives Life Cycle Management, Portfolio and Order Management FIS’ Portfolio and Order Management solutions provide a dashboard for the front office that shows real-time positions, PnL and Risk. Candidate orders can be generated within the platform and processed through an integrated order management system which provides pre- and post- trade compliance checks with staging of orders to a broad range of execution venues.

Convertible Bonds FIS’ convertible bonds solution has long provided hedge funds with powerful modeling, analytical and pricing capabilities, supported by high-quality, accurate terms and conditions and market data, for a full range of complex convertible bonds and equity-linked securities.

Risk Management FIS’ investment risk and reporting solution provides award-winning multi-asset class risk management, risk modeling, performance analysis, portfolio optimization and risk reporting.

Execution FIS’ global network connects more than 2,100 buy-side firms to over 400 sell-side firms through a broker-neutral platform. From trade execution to post-trade communication, analytics and reconciliation, it helps automate trading processes while providing the audit data necessary to satisfy regulatory requirements.

Market Data FIS’ provides flexible, cost-efficient access to comprehensive, global, real-time and historical data, news and analytics from over 160 global exchanges and OTC sources in a lightweight application.

Stock Loan Data With FIS’ stock loan data solution, hedge funds can monitor securities lending activities to support long and short trading decisions, and gain insights from a full spectrum of volatility data across all assets in a transparent, timely and cost-effective way.

Collateral Management FIS’ collateral management solution supports the management and optimization of collateral on a single platform, offering a universal view of assets across products, asset classes and geographies in real time.

Reconciliation FIS’ reconciliation solution provides automated reconciliation and exception management services to support cash, position, trade, NAV, total equity and margin/collateral reconciliation, and price and security master validation.

Corporate Actions FIS’ corporate actions solution automates corporate actions processing and links it to trading, settlement, reconciliations, risk and collateral management platforms.

Hedge Fund Accounting Global hedge fund managers must account for portfolio transactions across multiple asset classes and currencies, and front-to-back-office operations must be integrated for streamlined workflows. FIS’ industry-leading portfolio accounting solution, is designed for managing hedge funds as they reinvent for the future.

Private Equity Accounting and Reporting FIS’ private equity administration solution delivers advanced relationship management and private equity reporting. FIS can add this powerful solution to the hedge fund suite when clients require combined reporting, risk, and performance for multi-asset class portfolios.

Partner GL Accounting From fund inception and investor subscriptions to tax accounting and reporting distribution, FIS’ Partner GL Accounting solution helps reduce the costs and risks associated with manual processing.

Data Visualization FIS integrates data from hedge funds’ underlying systems and overlays it with dashboards and presentation capabilities that enable the slicing, dicing and an overall analysis of data, whether it is applied in the back, middle or front office.

Credit Funds Our alternative credit offering is a full front-to-back service that combines technology and outsourcing to cover the entire credit life cycle for hedge funds and other asset management firms.

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FIS’ configurable and scalable model allows you to invest in the technology and services you need today without feeling boxed in with a rigid system that is unable to flex to where your firm is heading. The services you want to outsource today may be areas you want to take in house in the future; likewise, you may choose to outsource more operational tasks in the future. With FIS’ co-sourcing approach, keep overall control while benefiting from the ability to find exceptional growth with a flexible, scalable foundation.

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Convertible Bonds

The convertible bond market is highly specialized – and nobody understands it quite like FIS.

Built and run by experienced professionals in convertible markets, FIS’ market-leading Monis solution provides a unique, comprehensive and flexible solution that handles the challenges and complexities of convertible bonds.

With our deep understanding of the complexity of pricing and modeling convertible bonds, we provide data and analytics as an integrated part of our Monis solution in addition to a support desk staffed by former traders and portfolio managers.

MASTER AGILITY.

The Monis solution includes analytics libraries, software, services, and terms and conditions data to help clients who are originating, trading and managing portfolios of convertible structures and the associated asset classes for hedging and risk management.

As hedge funds strive to meet the multiple requirements of the convertible bond market, you require robust, sophisticated analytical and modeling capabilities. Through Monis’ detailed scenario analysis, you will be better able to evaluate and identify market opportunities, assess the potential impact of trading strategies and manage risk across your portfolio.

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Spotlight on Business Process Outsourcings

In a hedge funds search for growth, the ability to rapidly take advantage of market opportunities as they evolve will be key. This agility will be supported by working in partnership with your service providers who can deliver expertise and scalability for your operational processes.

FIS offers a suite of services from fully outsourced middle and back-office operations to an “a-la-carte” co-sourcing model that can work in tandem with your in house-teams. This suite of services includes reconciliation-as-a-service, corporate-actions-as-a-service, risk-as-a-service and accounting-as-a-service.

Furthermore, emerging hedge fund managers looking for lightweight technology footprint can benefit from portfolio and order management capabilities delivered through a modern HTML5 based interface as a hosted managed service. FIS is a proven provider of services across capital markets, developing and supporting the technology that underpins these services and delivers these at scale across a global organisation. These services will enable your agility by delivering operational excellence across a broad range of strategies.

The Kit You Need to Compete

FIS Hedge Fund Solutions and Services delivered straight from the cloud. Our range of services tailored for start-up and mid-sized funds reduces your total cost of ownership allowing you to focus on your business and minimize operational risk.

Cloud management

• Private and Hybrid cloud hosting• Server administration• Operating system and security patches• Capacity management• Backup and data retention• Antivirus and malware software

IT support

• 24/7 monitoring• Strict adherence to service level agreements• Service delivery access• Incident management• Monthly reporting• Defined escalation procedures

Security

• Disaster recovery• Vulnerability scanning• Penetration testing• Security information and event management• Annual SOC assessments• Risk, information, security and compliance initiatives

Flexibility

• Scalable storage in our private hybrid cloud• Ability to match workload to resources• Remote access from any location, however distributed

yourworkforce• Addition and removal of users made simple, with

easy-to-understand pricing

Regular upgrades

• Update version • Functionality testing• Reduced risk and impact on production

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FIS EMPOWERS YOU WITH…

WHEN YOU NEED TO…

Maximize operational efficiency

Improve cost-effectiveness

Modernize your systems

Find exceptional growth

A flexible suite of best-of-breed solutions and expert services that can increase your operational efficiency so that you can focus on your core competency: generating alpha.

Our solutions and services are available in pre-packaged platforms for rapid deployment, designed for hedge funds of all sizes.

A highly scalable and cost-effective co-sourcing model that puts you in control of your operations while not boxing you in to a one-size-fits-all system.

Systems and services built for the agility that hedge funds need to compete and win in today’s tough market.

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Some of our recent awards

WE LEAD IN HELPING HEDGE FUNDS CAPTURE POTENTIAL AND GROW WITHOUT BOUNDARIES – THE MARKET HAS SPOKEN

For more, visit: www.fisglobal.com/about-us/awards

FIS awarded Best Overall Technology Firm at the HFM US Technology Awards

FIS’ APT awarded Best Risk Management Technology Provider at the HFM US Services Awards

FIS’ Front Arena awarded Best Execution and Trading Technology at the HFM US Quant Awards

FIS’ VPM awarded Best Accounting and Reporting Systems Firm at the Hedgeweek Awards

FIS’ Monis ranked #1 for Best Mobile Solutions Provider in the Waters Technology Rankings

FIS Ranked Overall Winner in the Chartis RiskTech 100®

FIS Ranked Overall Winner for Front Office Risk Management in the Chartis RiskTech 100®

FIS Ranked Overall Winner for Functionality in the Chartis RiskTech 100®

FIS’ Apex Collateral awarded the Best Collateral Management System of the Year at the Global Investor Group Awards

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