Funds Industry Report - Flipbook - Page 39
Colin McKeon Bridge Consulting
Ensure that your management company
Depending on the scale of complexity of your
is managing all your regulatory governance
fund structure, these committees are a help-
and compliance on your behalf. Experience
ful support to the overall smooth operation of
and experienced staff within your manage-
your fund.
ment company is invaluable as it ensures you
are constantly meeting all the regulatory and
Top Down Expertise And Support
compliance challenges.
Your management company should have
To ensure that efcient control and support
all the necessary regulatory capital required
mechanisms exists within a management
to support not only for today but also impor-
company Bridge Fund Management Limited
tantly in the future, as your funds grow.
have created a fully functionalised service
Check that your management company
team supporting our clients. The manage-
can add value to your existing business by
ment company services we provide operate
providing, for example, additional areas of
across four key areas each of which are over-
support related to Risk calculations, KIID
seen by a highly experienced team. Opera-
oversight and production, fund registrations,
tions, Compliance, Risk, Capital and Financial
Distribution support etc.
Management.
Substance Matters
Our model creates operational efciencies
and allows the fund promotor to focus on the
When appointing a third party management
activities that are core to them such as
company it is important to consider all of the
investment management, distribution and
above but equally as important in your selec-
marketing.
tion is ensuring that the board (of the management company) has the adequate experi-
Our clients appreciate this level of oversight
ence and knowledge necessary to support
and substance that we have invested into our
your funds and engage effectively with all the
business. It also reects a level of expertise
stakeholders within your fund structure.
and support that we believe is necessary to
ensure that we can act as an effective and
Often within the market, a management
supportive partner to your business. Sub-
company board are supported by technical
stance matters in an ever-increasing complex
sub-committees, appointed by the main
marketplace. Working with a partner who
board with specic terms of reference. These
understands your business and supports
sub-committees include but are not limited
your business with technical expertise is
to Investment, Risk and Compliance and Pric-
invaluable when minimising risks and allow-
ing issues. The technical sub -committees
ing for continued growth and success.
meet regularly to support the ongoing business of the funds and report directly to the
board
of
the
management
company.
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