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Fund Administration Fund Administration
At AFA our goal is to help clients navigate the process of efficiently structuring their fund from the outset. For both onshore and offshore funds, our team of highly experienced professionals, including attorneys and certified accountants, provide direction on the comparative advantages of the most complex legal and fiscal structures along with assistance in developing new structures to fit investor specific needs.
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Legal Services Legal Services
AFA Legal Resources (Cayman) Ltd. ("AFA Legal") serves a diverse, international client base providing general advisory services, advice on structuring vehicles (including companies, SPVs, SPCs, partnerships and trusts), liquidating entities, providing legal opinions, and offering post launch legal advisory services.
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Advisory Services Advisory Services
AFA Advisory Services provides a specific set of deliverables to managers of early stage hedge funds and private equity funds, as well as established fund managers who seek to increase Fund assets under management through development of an institutional grade product.
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Compliance Services Compliance Services
AFA’s Outsourced Compliance professionals leverage a wide range of industry expertise including top tier banks, broker dealers, prime brokers, hedge funds, and private equity firms. Regulatory compliance services are designed to support Financial Services firms, as well as specific instruments (e.g. equity and debt instruments, options, swaps, futures, and derivatives), as well as providing technology support for vendor systems including various trade management platforms, to ensure internal controls are designed properly to identify regulatory compliance risks.
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Shadow Accounting Services Shadow Accounting Services
AFA has implemented a solution to capture, reconcile and verify the pricing of portfolios so as to “shadow” the investment manager’s own back office reporting, while offering an important independent check for investors.
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Emerging Manager Platform Emerging Manager Platform
The AFA Emerging Manager Platform offers early stage fund managers a cost effective turnkey solution to provide the infrastructure required to support a new fund launch, without incurring capital intensive start-up costs. Fund managers will receive a high quality service from top tier SSAE 16 compliant service providers at significantly reduced rates. Services include legal, prime brokerage, fund administration, and audit & tax.
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At AFA our goal is to help clients navigate the process of efficiently structuring their fund from the outset. For both onshore and offshore funds, our team of highly experienced professionals, including attorneys and certified accountants, provide direction on the comparative advantages of the most complex legal and fiscal structures along with assistance in developing new structures to fit investor specific needs.
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Technology Technology
AFA's commitment to using the best technology in the industry sets it apart from other fund administrators. We are constantly evaluating new products and ideas to give our clients the very best service we can offer. The cornerstone of AFA's Fund Administration offering is a fully integrated solution provided by SunGard's Virtual Portfolio Manager ("VPM") and Pacific Fund Systems PFS-Paxus. Through our integrated platforms and custom reporting capabilities AFA is redefining full service fund administration.
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Cayman Advantage Cayman Advantage
- About Cayman Islands
Cayman offers a well-regulated and internationally respected, tax-neutral, offshore business environment. The type of Cayman structure required or best suited for a particular endeavour will depend largely on the type of business and whether it will be conducting its affairs locally or outside of the Cayman Islands. If the business is operating in another country, advice from that country's legal and tax counsel will be of prime importance in understanding the benefits that can be derived from setting up a business in Cayman. A fully operational physical presence with locally based staff, as opposed to a nominal presence through a registered office address, can be an essential component in ensuring compliance with many international and local reporting requirements.
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How to Launch How to Launch
There are many factors to consider when launching a new fund. From deciding how best to structure your fund; to preparing a business plan and developing marketing materials to facilitate capital raising efforts; to creating the infrastructure and selecting the service providers supporting your fund launch. At AFA, our expertise and knowledge of the alternative investments industry provides fund managers with valuable insight and guidance as they navigate the fund launch process. AFA provides Advisory Services and Offshore Legal Services to early stage fund managers during the critical launch period, as well as throughout the lifecycle of the fund.
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Fund Administration Services

AFA is a boutique provider of third-party hedge fund administration services with a high-end dedicated manager service model, which benefits our Hedge Fund and Funds of Hedge ..

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Asset Managers

Whether for Hedge Funds,Fund of Funds, or Private Equity Funds, AFA provides Asset Managers full administration and middle office services with specific offerings geared towar..

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Managed Accounts

Managed Account investors and managers require specific services that often exceed traditional fund administration. AFA understands these needs and works with both parties to..

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Incubation Platform

Through our strategic partnership with New Oak Solutions, AFA offers an asset management portal solution with a comprehensive suite of trading application tools covering front..

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Investor Services

If you are like most investors, you want confidence in your fund's service providers. AFA constantly works with firms from Auditors to Prime Brokers in order to ensure t..

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Service Providers

A fund's service providers must work closely to ensure efficiency and transparency for the fund manager and investors. See how you can work with AFA toward setting a new..

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Welcome to AFA

Advanced Fund Administration (“AFA”) is a privately owned hedge fund and private equity fund administration firm established in the Cayman Islands in January 2008 by Peter M.O. Young. In September 2009 AFA expanded its global footprint into the United States by opening its Summit, New Jersey office trading as Advanced Fund Administration LLC, and in November 2014 established an office in BVI, trading as Advanced Fund Administration (BVI) Ltd. AFA is also rolling out a Luxembourg based solution to meet the fund administration needs of our European based clients electing to domicile in Luxembourg.

In 2013 AFA expanded its service offering to include offshore legal services via AFA Legal Resources (Cayman) Ltd, as well as launching AFA Advisory Services to address the needs of early stage fund managers.

AFA is a SSAE 16 Type II SOC I compliant, boutique fund administration firm providing comprehensive and cost effective fund administration solutions to all types of fund structures and investment strategies. The core of AFA’s service combines robust technology and experienced staff, offering clients personalized service and continuous access to AFA’s Executive Management. AFA values each client relationship and prides itself on partnering with its clients throughout the fund lifecycle and beyond.

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