At our third annual CAIS Alternative Investment Summit, our CAIS Lab offered in-depth demos of the latest tech powering the CAIS platform, hosted by members of our product specialist and technology teams.
CAIS Lab participants had the chance to preview many of the releases from this quarter, now available on our platform for certain users and highlighted below.
Want to experience CAIS Lab next year? Mark your calendar for CAIS Summit 2025, taking place October 13-16!
CAIS Lab at the 2024 CAIS Summit
Streamlining Your Onboarding and Trade Process
We are excited to announce the ongoing release of a suite of trade enhancements that seek to enable faster transactions and more flexible account creation processes.
What’s in store?
Enjoy a new, more intuitive, step-by-step transaction process and user interface
Begin your transactions with only the essential information you need
Gain more flexibility by creating accounts in multiple places along your pre-trade journey
Reduce repetitive tasks with our optimized account profile structure by replicating information across profiles within a household
Manage your client information with simplified naming conventions aligned with common industry standards
Your New Onboarding and Trade Process
Simplifying How You Track Maturities, Redemptions, and Holdings
Experience the new Structured Investments Lifecycle Management Tool, designed to help you easily track upcoming call and maturity events, customize timeframes for event tracking, and quickly filter and analyze product allocations—all within a configurable calendar view. This tool empowers you to proactively manage client portfolios and better anticipate cash flows.
We also launched Quick Views, which give you the ability to tailor your holdings table for easier analysis. You can quickly create and edit customized views of your business—focused on note performance, term-related data, and client profiles to more efficiently view the information that matters to you.
Experience the New Structured Investments Lifecycle Management Tool
Introducing CAIS Compass
Also announced at the CAIS Summit, we are rolling out our portfolio construction tool, CAIS Compass, which helps financial advisors analyze the historical impact of alternative asset classes on portfolios.
CAIS Compass is an interactive technology tool that provides information on how certain alternative investment strategies may have impacted the historical performance of portfolios. CAIS Compass provides advisors with an additional resource to evaluate potential risks and returns of alternative asset classes as they consider the impact of alternative investments in their business.
Through the tool, you can also sort through the menu of strategies available via the CAIS Marketplace for you to use to implement your target allocations.
Our New Portfolio Construction Tool
Using CAIS To Deliver Model Portfolios
Firms can now host their own model portfolios on our platform, as they aim to simplify the allocation process for financial advisors. By combining multiple strategies across alternative asset classes into a single, objectives-oriented portfolio, model portfolios can streamline how advisors consider private markets and hedge fund strategies.
CAIS’ enhanced technology supports these models, helping advisors meet diverse client needs and risk profiles, blending their asset allocation guidance with alternative investments available on the CAIS Marketplace.
Other New and Notable Enhancements
Home Page Quick Links
This new feature, located in a new toolbar on the left-hand side of the CAIS platform home page, allows you to quickly navigate to frequently used functions for our investment products—such as browsing offerings, managing orders, and viewing holdings—with one click.
Enhanced Homepage Quick Links
Closing Schedule View on Fund Pages
Advisors can view both current and upcoming due dates through a new Closing Schedule module, enabling transparency and improved planning when investing in a product.
View the Closing Schedule on Fund Pages
Announcing a More Accurate View of Your Order Deadlines
Visiting the Orders page will now show a more accurate view of relevant deadlines for your orders, especially if certain deadlines have passed, to give users a clearer picture of what they may still need to complete.
Filtering by Fund Menu Tax Reporting
Users can now filter by tax reporting method—for example, 1099 or Schedule K1—as they explore available funds on the CAIS platform. This update adds to the 100+ data points on our fund pages, such as objective, strategy, minimum initial investment, and more, that advisors can use to browse alternative investment products for their clients.
New Filters by Tax Reporting Status
Continuously Optimizing for Financial Advisors
CAIS continues to elevate the alternative investment journey through the mutual reinforcement of our advanced technology and deep integrations across the alts investment lifecycle—linking custodians, reporting providers, and fund administrators to create a more connected and efficient experience for advisors.
Visit our integrations page to learn how we're bringing the alts ecosystem together, or explore our ongoing platform updates on our technology page.
