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Magistral’s Fundraising Support Services- Industry Expertise and Tools that Deliver!!

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  Introduction Markets are overheated. Funds are being launched. Series A has now touched $50 million to start with for even pre-revenue start-ups!! In these frenzied times, the experts of fundraising are in demand. Magistral’s fundraising support services could be used at a fraction of the fund, to close the fund faster and in full. Magistral Fundraising Support Services Magistral fundraising support services help clients reach out to Limited Partners, General Partners, Asset Managers, and Business Decision-makers for business development support. Types of Investors Reach-out for Fundraising or business Limited Partners Reach-out In this, the Magistral team generates the leads for Limited Partners, i.e., Family Offices, Sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, Treasury offices, Universities, etc. This list is then used to set up meetings with our clients who are General Partners like Venture Capital, Private Equity funds, or for service providers like Investment Banks and brokers. E...

Multi-Family Office Outsourcing- Challenges and Solutions

  Magistral is a specialist when it comes to Multi-Family Office outsourcing, across the globe in outsourcing various aspects of their operations. Its costs are competitive as it’s small enough not to have overheads that don’t add any value to clients and still big enough to have the capability of servicing a global MFO well. To schedule a conversation with a Magistral representative drop in a line   here About Magistral Magistral Consulting  has helped multiple funds and companies in outsourcing operations activities. It has service offerings for  Private Equity, Venture Capital, Family Offices ,  Investment Banks ,  Asset Managers, Hedge Funds, Financial Consultants,   Real Estate, REITs, RE funds ,  Corporates and Portfolio companies . Its functional expertise is around  Deal origination ,  Deal Execution, Due Diligence,   Financial Modeling ,  Portfolio Management  and  Equity Research For setting up an appointmen...
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  Examining the Trend of Operations’ Outsourcing by Family Offices Introduction Family offices are the biggest chunk of Limited Partners. They are the chief source of financing for multiple Private Equity, Venture Capital, and Real Estate funds apart from other Limited Partners like Insurance Companies, Sovereign Funds, Pension Funds, etc. The trend of Family Office outsourcing their operations’ activities is fast catching up.   Family Offices are now opening to the concept of direct investing and its time for them to be open about the concept of outsourcing too like their General Partners investees Family Offices and Direct Investments Private Equity as a new asset class was coming up well and operated under the rules of incentives like 2/20. Simply put it means there would be 2% of management fees of the AUM and 20% would be charged from the profits. Under these arrangements, there was a limited risk for General Partners for the lower than expected returns but had a signific...
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  Hedge Fund Operations Outsourcing: How does it work? Introduction to Hedge Fund Outsourcing Operations Outsourcing for  Hedge Funds  is slowly becoming a viable proposition to improve analytical excellence and reduce the operations’ cost. Almost all types of hedge funds can benefit from outsourcing and research support services. It aids the smooth functioning of Hedge Fund operations. Hedge Fund outsourcing not only helps in reducing operations cost, but it is also immensely helpful in raising the analytical standards of the fund.   Hedge Funds are investment vehicles that invest in stocks to give superlative returns to their investors. They follow multiple strategies like long-short equity, market neutral, merger arbitrage, convertible arbitrage, event-driven, credit, fixed income arbitrage, global macro, Short only, and Quantitative. Here is what these strategies are and what could be outsourced by each strategy Long-Short Equity Hedge Fund This is by far the mos...
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  Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) – Details, Activities and Benefits What are Outsourced Investment Officer (OCIO) Services? An Outsourced Investment Officer services or OCIO provide support in terms of research and analytics for investment decisions by a company, Private Equity or Venture Capital Fund, Hedge Fund, Family Office, or an Investment Bank. Simply put, An Outsourced Chief Investment Officer fills in for a regular Chief Investment Officer as and when required. Mostly it comprises activities that support a CIO in performing his services effectively. When is OCIO needed? Outsourced Chief Investment Officer services are designed for funds like Private Equity, Venture Capital, and Hedge Funds, and for Family Offices, Investment Banks, and M&A functions of Corporates When it makes sense to outsource Chief Investment Officer?   It’s not possible to hire a full-time CIO in all situations. In many business scenarios, there is a requirement of a team that supp...