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Independent Financial Advisor

Transform how you invest with alternatives

Our industry-leading technology and dedicated team increase your access and make investing in alternatives easier.

Your solution across the alternative investment life cycle

As an independent financial advisor, you can use the CAIS platform as your end-to-end solution for accessing alternative investments. We aim to serve the complex needs of the independent wealth ecosystem, streamline workflows, and save valuable time across the pre-trade, trade, and post-trade process.

CAIS Marketplace

Through CAIS Marketplace, financial advisors can gain free, turnkey access to a variety of products available across a spectrum of accreditation levels. Browse our private markets and hedge fund product menus, structured note offerings, educational materials, and Mercer due diligence reports, while learning about alternative strategies via our on-demand online learning experience, CAIS IQ.

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CAIS Structured Investments

Through CAIS Structured Investments, you have the flexibility to receive extensive structured note education, gain access to bank issuer offerings, the opportunity to curate bespoke strategies, and take advantage of full lifecycle support. 

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CAIS Solutions

Through CAIS Solutions, our software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering, RIAs and independent broker-dealers can centralize and scale all their alternative investment operations in one place. Use time-saving features—such as automated customer profiles, digitized documentation, AML/KYC smart logic, CAIS DocuSign, and integrations with custodians and third-party reporting providers—for all your alternative investment funds, no matter where you find them.

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CAIS Custom Funds

The CAIS Custom Funds team can help you build your own branded custom fund structures to preserve your firm’s existing edge in alternative investing. With single-manager and multi-manager funds, you can aim to diversify your clients’ alternative investment allocations while streamlining their investing experience and avoiding certain operational obstacles for your team.

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Prioritize client goals

As more advisors shift to a three-dimensional portfolio across stocks, bonds, and alternatives, CAIS delivers a seamless investing experience, giving you the education, due diligence via Mercer, and the technology you need to transact at scale. We provide you with streamlined access to a curated and evolving menu of alternative investment strategies, such as hedge funds, private equity, private debt, real estate, infrastructure, and structured notes. 

Strategies that seek to:

  • Diversify risk

  • Enhance returns

  • Supplement income

  • Preserve capital

Managers on the CAIS platform

Seek access to more than 70+ alternative asset managers currently on our platform.

Partners Group
Invesco
Hamilton Lane
Stonepeak
Lighthouse
Ares
Carlson
ICG
GoldenTree
Reverence Capital Partners
Evanston
Stepstone
Alternatives by Franklin Templeton
BTG
Clarion
Bain
Origin
KKR
Angelo Gordon
Axonic
SCS
CIM
Brevan Howard
Graham Capital Management
Ancora
Inland
HPS
Bridge Investment Group
Schonfeld
Vista
Hines
Neuberger
Benefit Street Partners
Harbourvest
Franklin Templeton
Third Point
Flowstone Partners
Nuveen, A TIAA Company
Knightsbridge
Bluerock
Kayne
JLL Income Property Trust
Apollo
DavidsonKempner
Blue Owl
Warburg Pincus
Golub Capital
Canyon
Monroe Capital
Pantheon
Partners Group
Invesco
Hamilton Lane
Stonepeak
Lighthouse
Ares
Carlson
ICG
GoldenTree
Reverence Capital Partners
Evanston
Stepstone
Alternatives by Franklin Templeton
BTG
Clarion
Bain
Origin
KKR
Angelo Gordon
Axonic
SCS
CIM
Brevan Howard
Graham Capital Management
Ancora
Inland
HPS
Bridge Investment Group
Schonfeld
Vista
Hines
Neuberger
Benefit Street Partners
Harbourvest
Franklin Templeton
Third Point
Flowstone Partners
Nuveen, A TIAA Company
Knightsbridge
Bluerock
Kayne
JLL Income Property Trust
Apollo
DavidsonKempner
Blue Owl
Warburg Pincus
Golub Capital
Canyon
Monroe Capital
Pantheon

Working with CAIS

Through our dedicated regional product specialists and top-rated client service professionals, we can help you transact more efficiently—so you can focus on what matters most to you and your clients. 

“I've been working with CAIS for over 10 years, and they've been a great partner.”1

Jonathan Lee, Director of Private Strategies and Principal, The Colony Group

Featured insights

Gain market insights and improve your alternative investment knowledge through articles, videos, and other educational resources from the CAIS team.

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