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Hedge Funds & Alternatives

Hazeltree hedge fund software transforms the way hedge funds & alternatives manage their counterparties to increase returns by 40-80bps, optimize fees, minimize exposure, and protect assets. 8 of the top 20 Hedge Funds rely on Hazeltree for their Treasury needs.

Hazeltree provides innovative cloud-based treasury solutions to investment management firms, delivering enhanced transparency, liquidity, improved performance and risk mitigation.

Hazeltree’s Hedge Fund software is a purpose-built Treasury and Portfolio Finance platform that aggregates cash, collateral, margin, securities finance, and rates data across all counterparties into a central normalized platform, enabling optimal funding, collateral allocation and borrow/lending decisions. Hazeltree’s independent agreement-based internal view reconciles to counterparty data, highlighting breaks, while minimizing risk exposure and optimizing fees. Hazeltree’s integrated workflow and execution engine streamlines treasury operations functions.

Transparency and Efficiency for Treasury and Investor Management

Reduce borrow costs and increase lending revenue with community-based HT Enso rate insights.
Manage Securities Lending & Borrowing Rates and Renegotiations.
Manage asset-based financing tiers and optimally allocate positions.
Effectively reconcile and dispute collateral requirements and efficiently recall excess collateral.
Minimize margin requirements through data-driven analysis.
Identify borrowing and lending optimization opportunities based on community-based HT Enso rates.
Tightly manage and track counterparty exposure and health and analyze wallet and ROA.
Maximize efficiency and returns with measurable treasury P&L.
Manage counterparty agreements across ISDAs and Prime Brokers.
Centralize cash into a single view to easily analyze and offset credit/debits and sweep excess cash.
Strengthen controls over treasury and cash functions.
Create a single banking portal to consistently wire money without logging into multiple banking portals.
Improve operational efficiencies with integrated reconciliation capabilities for cash, positions, securities, and transaction.

Solution Factsheet

Cash and Position Reconciliation

Hazeltree Reconciliation Manager™

Are you using spreadsheets to reconcile your treasury positions? Streamline your cash, positions and securities reconciliation process as part of your treasury operations functions.

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Cash Management and Optimization

Hazeltree Cash Manager™

Is cash management critical to investment and trading? Are you actively managing and optimizing your cash to unlock value? Hazeltree’s automated Algos help you optimize your cash and liquidity to minimize fees and earn incremental yield.

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Cash Sweeps

Hazeltree Liquidity Investment Platform™

Are you tracking your excess cash? Can you easily sweep your excess cash to liquid money market funds and be able to select the best rates? Hazeltree offers access to a network of money market liquidity providers to automate your cash sweep, and be able to select the best rates.

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Counterparty Exposure, Health, and Wallet Management

Hazeltree Counterparty Metrics™

Are you tracking your counterparty exposure and health? Do you have full visibility and understanding over your counterparties’ fees? Hazeltree provides detailed analysis of your counterparties across various metrics.

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Hedge your FX Exposure

Hazeltree Cash Manager™

Are you trading in multiple currencies? Are you tracking your currency exposure? Hazeltree monitors exposure-based thresholds and suggests FX trades to hedge currency exposure at the underlying position level.

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Market Color and Data Analytics

Hazeltree Data Insights™

Does information asymmetry give you a competitive edge? Hazeltree provides you with details, around security crowdedness, concentration, position changes, sector and industry changes, rates, and confidence scores for each trading day.

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OTC Collateral Management

Hazeltree Collateral Manager™

Can you track and monitor margin requirements across counterparties, and protect assets while mitigating risk? Are you over/under-collateralized? Can you easily respond to demands or recall excess collateral? Hazeltree automates collateral management workflow.

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Prime Broker Margin Management

Hazeltree Margin Manager™

Can you track and monitor margin requirements across counterparties, and protect assets while mitigating risk? Hazeltree offers an aggregated analysis of your prime broker margin requirements at a summary and detail level.

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Securities Finance, Rate Transparency and Optimization

Hazeltree Securities Finance™

Can you track and optimize your financing rates across your prime brokers to minimize borrow costs? Can you easily locate and move securities for achieve best execution? Hazeltree offers transparency and workflow tools to minimize borrow costs.

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Securities Transfer

Hazeltree Transaction Manager™

Do you spend valuable operations time moving securities between prime brokers? Do you limit securities transfers due to operational inefficiencies? Hazeltree automates your securities movement with a single click.

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Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR)

Hazeltree Collateral Manager™

Are you ready to comply with UMR requirements? Are you subject to Phase 5 or 6? Hazeltree can help you meet contractual collateral requirements, Uncleared Margin Rules and Standard Initial Margin Model (UMR and SIMM) mandates.

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Wire Movements and Payments

Hazeltree Transaction Manager™

Do you have appropriate controls around cash movement? Is your payment approval process consistent and auditable? Hazeltree integrates with your counterparties to streamline wires.

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Key Product Benefits

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“Moving our collateral management off spreadsheets and to Hazeltree’s cloud solution helps us automate responding to calls, focus on collateral exceptions and, generally, streamline the interactions with our ISDA counterparties.”

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Tom D’Orsi, Head of Treasury – Capital Markets at Bain Capital.

“As a user of the platform, we have found Hazeltree to be a transformative technology solution, allowing us to increase the speed and reliability of our treasury operations and gain greater security over our cash management processes, all while expanding our visibility into overall funding and currency needs for our clients.”

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Erik Hirsch, Vice Chairman and Head of Strategic Initiatives at Hamilton Lane.

“Our clients are asking for a robust treasury management solution. We believe that Hazeltree offers an industry leading suite of treasury management solutions.”

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Jim Kelly, HedgeServ’s Chairman.

“As a leading investment manager, we are continually enhancing our ability to provide our investors with consistent returns, minimize our operational risks, and efficiently scale our business.”

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Seth Fischer, Oasis’ Founder and Chief Investment Officer.

“Hazeltree has helped to streamline our treasury management function and has delivered leading-edge risk-reduction capabilities.”

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Pat Lomelo, Neuberger Berman’s Global Head of Operations.

“Cash Optimization is a significant step for investment managers looking to automate what has been a labor-intensive process of managing cash balances, liquidity investments and payments among a complex network of counterparties.”

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Peter Sanchez, CEO of Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services.

“Hazeltree provides us with an efficient centralized systematic approach to optimize our treasury function across cash and margin and eliminates the need to use multiple counterparty portals.”

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Nicholas Bloom, Ovata Capital’s Chief Operating Officer.