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Find out more Stonegate Global and to connect with Skyler:

Website: https://stonegateglobalfundservices.com/

LinkedIn (Skyler): https://www.linkedin.com/in/skylersteinke/

LinkedIn (Stonegate): https://www.linkedin.com/company/stonegate-global-fund-services/

Telegram (Skyler): https://t.me/SkylerSteinke

This interview features Skyler Steinke introduces Stonegate Global, a fund administrator that provides services to alternative investments and focuses primarily on digital asset funds.

We discuss the importance for fund administration, advice for new funds and what to look for when hiring a fund administrator - particularly in the digital asset space.

Time Stamps:

00:00 - Alt Funds Investment Podcast - Intro

00:30 - Skyler's Background

2:57 - Stonegate's Services

4:54 - The importance of a fund administrator

8:05 - What a new fund needs to know about fund administration

10:22 - Stonegate's client types

12:22 - Fund administration landscape

17:38 - Challenges faced by crypto funds and administrators

25:05 - advice for a new fund manager entering the crypto space

29:43 - Where to connect with Skyler and Stongegate Global

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Fund administration is important for an alternative investment fund for several reasons:

Compliance: Fund administration helps ensure that a fund is in compliance with all relevant laws, regulations, and reporting requirements, which can vary depending on the fund's structure, investment strategy, and jurisdiction.

Accounting: Fund administration provides accurate and timely financial reporting, which is critical for investors and regulators to assess the fund's performance, risk exposure, and compliance with investment mandates and guidelines.

Risk Management: Fund administration helps to manage and mitigate risk by monitoring investments, cash flows, and fund performance, and by ensuring that all necessary controls, procedures, and reporting are in place.

Investor Relations: Fund administration plays a key role in supporting investor relations by providing timely and accurate information to investors, managing investor communications and reporting, and ensuring that investors receive the information they need to make informed decisions.

Operations: Fund administration helps to streamline the operational processes of a fund, from trade settlement and reconciliation, to securities lending and collateral management, to performance calculation and reporting.

Transparency: Fund administration helps to promote transparency by providing regular and accurate reporting on the fund's performance, holdings, and risks, which can help to increase investor confidence and support the fund's reputation.

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