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DPM Mellon is a leading provider of accounting and financial reporting services to the managed futures industry. DPM Mellon and IA have been working together since 1999 and jointly service several alternative investment clients. Our operations and client service functions work closely with DPM Mellon to deliver high quality pricing and accounting services to our clients. Through this established alliance and shared resources, the partnership provides IA with the capacity to scale quickly and take on new clients with ease.
DPM Mellon provides cost-effective fund administration, back-and middle-office outsourcing, and integrated risk administration solutions through Investor Analytics for fund managers, asset allocators, institutional investors, and proprietary traders whose portfolios cover almost all asset classes and instruments traded worldwide. The suite of services is designed to solve administrative needs and improve operational efficiency. DPM Mellon systems, infrastructure, and experience can deliver the most basic administrative reports to complex portfolio calculations, risk analysis, and daily transparency. DPM Mellon has direct links to most of the top prime brokers. For more information on DPM Mellon, please visit www.dpmmellon.com.
 
Laffer Associates is an economic research
and consulting firm that provides investment-research services
to institutional asset managers. Since its inception in 1979,
the firm's
research has focused on the interconnecting macroeconomic,
political and demographic changes affecting global financial
markets. Dr. Laffer's economic acumen and influence had a
large role in triggering a worldwide tax-cutting movement
in the 1980s and have earned him the distinction in many
publications as "The Father of Supply-Side Economics." One of his earliest successes in shaping public policy was his involvement in Proposition 13, the groundbreaking California initiative that drastically cut property taxes in the state in 1978. IA’s
marketing function works closely with Art Laffer to offer
their customers a world-class portfolio management tool.
Absolute Plus Management, LLC (APM) is an investment-consulting services firm focused on modeling limited transparency hedge fund risk. They employ a proprietary technique known as Generic Manager Decomposition to better evaluate the potential risks associated with the sources of the hedge fund returns. This methodology is applied to determine the imbedded exposures in an alternative portfolio. If selected by a client, APM’s analysis can feed into the IA system to provide another level of analysis in determining risk factors for nontransparent portfolios. The results are shown in comparison to IA’s default methodology as well as other risk scenarios, thereby providing a broader risk analysis.
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