Quantitative hedge funds, trading assets from equities to crypto, need to meet investors. But how do they accomplish this in a swiftly-changing market? Introductions from 3rd party marketers, independent sales agents, consultants, and unregistered introducers aren’t enough - regulatory compliance and domain expertise are needed to make a market.
Dan Hubscher, Series 7, 31, 63, is a licensed, registered placement agent with specialized experience in the highly regulated private placement industry. He has worked extensively with both emerging and established quant funds. CAS partners with fund managers through several stages of a fund’s life cycle, with services including market campaign planning and execution, marketing consulting, and investor introductions.
Our 3rd party marketing platform includes two business entities:
- Changing Market Strategies for FinTech-related transactions.
- Changing Alpha Strategies for investment-related, private placement transactions:
𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐚 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬 (CAS) helps emerging quantitative fund managers, including quant crypto, with introductions to distribute their strategies to qualified investors. Investors are consistently challenged to uncover sources of unique, uncorrelated alpha. CAS gives qualified investors access to a private placement platform to discover investment opportunities in and collaborative insights into quantitative strategies.
Changing Alpha Strategies LLC offers securities through Stonehaven, LLC, a Member of FINRA / SIPC. Regulatory disclosures: Disclaimers & Risks, Privacy Policy and Form CRS.
This means:
- Preparing managers for fund marketing: Through Stonehaven’s professional mandate operations team, CAS provides onboarding to Stonehaven’s platform, including manager due diligence and offering review.
- Facilitating ongoing fund marketing compliance: Compliance with the industry’s many and varied marketing rules can be prohibitively difficult. CAS also provides, through Stonehaven’s team, initial and ongoing review of marketing materials for compliance.
- Scaling access to investors: CAS extends its investor reach through additional Stonehaven registered representatives at affiliate partner organizations on Stonehaven’s collaborative platform, including specialist and generalist representatives covering a wide range of investor types. Further, Stonehaven’s structure allows CAS to serve as a single point of contact for any Stonehaven registered representatives seeking to collaborate with CAS and its originated mandates. This structure reduces the client’s administrative burden of managing multiple sales communication channels. This Stonehaven affiliate partner network also provides investors access to a much larger potential pool of opportunities, increasing their likelihood of finding suitable investments that align with their specific risk tolerance and investment goals.
- Closing transactions with confidence: With the assistance of Stonehaven’s operations team, CAS provides transaction closing due diligence on investor legal entities, including KYC/AML. Through Stonehaven, CAS facilitates the logistics of an investment, such as bank transfers, to ensure deals close to the satisfaction of both parties.
Note: the due diligence processes performed by CAS and Stonehaven can in no way replace that required of the manager(s) and investors.
CMS and CAS together facilitate introductions within the community and form the two halves of a uniquely quant-focused third party marketing platform that provides collaborative insights, and distribution at scale.
