A large New York investment bank had just formed a new hedge fund for sophisticated investors, based mostly in Europe. The fund had USD 1 billion of trading capital to invest in financial markets. 

The fund was a brand new business with no processes, systems for trading relationships.  They needed to set up the business with the correct investment strategies, staff, systems and processes to make the business successful.

Project 

Set up investment mandates, financial and risk management systems, business and compliance systems. Develop trading relationships with global banks in USA, Europe and Asia. Define investment strategy from the fund charter, set up investment procedures and allocate capital to investment managers. Define and document all business and compliance processes. Define business requirements for new finance and risk management systems. Implement the new systems.

Result 

Investment strategies resulted in a 35% pa return in Year 1. Compliance and risk management systems were implemented in six weeks.