As financial advisors increasingly adopt defined-outcome strategies to capture market opportunities, manage risk, and meet client goals, CAIS, the alternative investment platform for independent financial advisors, announced an expansion of its “defined-outcome capabilities” through CAIS Capital Markets, a new division.
CAIS Capital Markets will centralize existing structured investment solutions, hedging and monetization, and managed solutions referral services, along with CAIS Capital’s structured investment trade execution capabilities.
CAIS has provided access to structured investments for independent advisors for more than ten years.
With expanded capabilities, CAIS Capital Markets now offers advisors access to “structured notes as well as hedging and monetization strategies—both delivered by bank issuers—to help diversify and manage risk in concentrated equity positions.”
CAIS also offers structured note execution trading services, “which simplify the trading process and provide support from trade creation through to maturity.”
CAIS Capital Markets is fully integrated with “the broader CAIS platform, allowing advisors to access these offerings alongside other alternative investment opportunities. ”
Marc Premselaar, Partner, Head of Capital Markets at CAIS, said advisors are taking advantage of defined-outcome strategies to capitalize on market opportunities.
“In today’s market environment, we’re seeing a preference for increased diversification and downside protection. Many advisors are taking a more intentional approach to constructing portfolios—and that includes reevaluating their public allocations.”
CAIS has seen an increase in adoption of structured investments in recent years, with “significant year-over-year volume growth.”
On the heels of CAIS’s expanded capabilities, Focus Financial Partners, an interdependent partnership of wealth management, business management, and related financial services firms, has recently “expanded their relationship with CAIS to leverage the suite of offerings under its Capital Markets division.”
As noted in the update, CAIS is the alternative investment platform for independent financial advisors.
The CAIS platform powers the pre-trade, trade, and post-trade “lifecycle of alternative investments, providing financial advisors and alternative asset managers a single operating system for scale and efficiency.”
CAIS reportedly serves over 2,000 wealth management firms that “support more than 50,000 financial advisors who oversee approximately $6 trillion in end-client assets.”
Founded in 2009, CAIS is headquartered in New York City with offices in Austin and London.