Services

ECG works on a wide variety of different leverage transactions, such as:

•  Less expensive and less restrictive leverage facilities for fund of funds

•  Secured and unsecured liquidity lines for fund of funds

•  Leverage for more difficult to finance fund of funds, such as those that are less liquid or are concentrated in areas such as trade finance, asset based lending or PIPEs

•  Increased assets under management through leverage for funds that want to add size

•  Leverage for deferred compensation plans for offshore funds

•  Tax-efficient single manager leverage

•  Selective leverage for endowments to increase flexibility in asset allocation

•  Next-generation tax-efficient leverage products

ECG also works with clients on a number of other unique situations, such as:

•  Synthetic seeding programs for larger hedge funds to start new fund products with relatively small amounts of non-recourse capital   

•  Banks seeking partners to outsource risk

•  Shorting hedge fund indices to control risk, offset investments that are locked-up, set up relative alpha bets or simply take outright short fund bets

•  Financing structures for funds engaged in premium finance or investments in life insurance policies

•  Portable alpha programs for institutional investors

•  Synthetic fund exposure for fund-of-funds constrained by the 25% limit so they can raise additional ERISA assets

•  Helping onshore investors access offshore funds and offshore investors access onshore funds

•  Term financing for hedge funds that have longer duration investments to partially replace overnight prime brokerage facilities