Advisors Are Open to Increasing Alternative Allocations, But Barriers Remain October 26, 2021 | Cerulli Associates Advisors recognize the benefits of allocating to alternative investments; however, barriers remain to their use, according to Cerulli’s latest white paper, Advisor Use of Alternative Investments in 2021, produced in collaboration with Blue Vault, and based on an inaugural…

UMB Fund Services Launches Automated OCR Subscription and Tender Processing for Registered Closed-End Funds October 11, 2021 | UMB Fund Services UMB Fund Services (UMBFS), a subsidiary of UMB Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: UMBF), today announces the launch of its automated optical character recognition (OCR) processing program. The technology enables faster, more accurate processing of handwritten…

CAIS Expands Independent Broker Dealer Relationships with Alts Education September 28, 2021 | Business Wire CAIS Expands Independent Broker Dealer Relationships with Alts Education CAIS IQ empowers financial advisors and home offices with personalized alternative investment education, insights, and data analytics CAIS, the leading alternative investment platform, today announced CAIS IQ is supporting independent broker…

Alternative Investment Exchange (AIX) Partners with InvestX October 5, 2021 | Alternative Investment Exchange Partnership reflects a commitment to innovative alliances that help push access to alternative investments to more broker-dealers Alternative Investment Exchange (AIX), an alternative investment technology firm that makes it easier for wealth managers and fund sponsors to do business in alternatives,…

Automation and Alts: How Firms Use Automation to Gain a Competitive Advantage September 28, 2021 | James Sprow A Blue Vault ALTSTECH Series Webinar September 9, 2021 Panelists: Bill Robbins, CEO of WealthForge Drew Jackson, President and CEO of Concorde Investment Services James Brunger, Executive VP National Sales from Capital Square These industry experts discussed…

An Option for Streamlined Settlement of Private Placement Bonds September 1, 2021 | Tim Cook In conjunction with capital raises for a fund, sponsors may also issue bonds to the investors. In this situation, sponsors need a trustee and/or paying agent and an approach for settling the private placement bonds themselves. We may already be…

iCapital Network® to Acquire Axio Financial, a Leading Service Provider to the U.S. Structured Notes Market Strengthens commitment to financial advisor education September 22, 2021 |  iCapital Network  iCapital Network1, the leading global financial technology platform driving access and efficiency in alternative investing for the asset and wealth management industries, and Axio Financial LLC (Axio),…

In 2019, the people behind CAIS, a $13 billion alternative investments platform founded a decade earlier, were not totally satisfied...

The private debt market has come into its own over the past decade. Once a small and obscure asset class, its profile was raised in...