OVERVIEW

SERVICES

CONSULTING

EXPERIENCE

Relativity Investment Management Consulting, LLC

RIMC provides management and regulatory consulting services to advisers and funds, and may be a good fit if you seek the following traits in a consultant:

 

Client service focused

Executive-level experience

A deep understanding of the investment management industry

Innovative

Practical

SERVICES

Ongoing Support

While RIMC’s capabilities span the spectrum of traditional compliance consulting services, we spend the majority of our time providing ongoing support to advisers and funds, as described below.

  • > Ongoing Compliance Support

    In need of compliance expertise, but do not need a full time CCO on the payroll?   RIMC’s full service compliance offering may be your solution to fill this gap.  Talk with us to learn how other advisers have successfully used RIMC as their primary and ongoing compliance solution, including:

    • Compliance program maintenance and testing

    • Continuous advice

    • Governance facilitation

    • Employee education

    • Marketing materials review

    • Cybersecurity program management

    • Disaster recovery program management

    • Other project management

    • General business advice

     

    While we will not serve as your CCO, we essentially function as a part of the firm’s compliance department.

     

  • > Governance Structures

    Every firm needs a governance structure.  RIMC will work with you to implement a meaningful governance structure, and will facilitate your ongoing governance initiatives (including drafting meeting minutes).

     

  • > CCO Mentoring

    RIMC has a structured mentoring process – we can help your CCO in training become the CCO you need.

  • > Ongoing Fund Service Provider Oversight

    Mutual funds are required to oversee select service providers; RIMC can provide this ongoing service on behalf of the fund’s CCO.

  • > Customized Ongoing Engagements

    Have a scope in mind?  RIMC will likely have the expertise (or, will be able to pull together the right resources) to meet your need.

Reviews

We provide meaningful reviews.  Our cybersecurity review process has gained a lot of traction with advisers.

 

  • > Cybersecurity Reviews

    Not sure where to start on cybersecurity?  Think your process is solid, but unsure whether it will withstand the SEC’s scrutiny?  With a minimal investment of your staff’s time, RIMC’s effective yet surprisingly affordable cybersecurity review process can answer both questions.  RIMC will provide both a report summarizing our work performed and a practical project plan your organization can use to implement an effective cybersecurity oversight process.

  • > Due Diligence Reviews – fund service providers and sub-advisers

    RIMC’s principal has been conducting due diligence reviews for over 20 years.  Contact us to learn how RIMC can lead a thoughtful, effective due diligence review (either in person or remotely).

     

  • > Focused Reviews

    RIMC is more than capable to perform a focused, customized review of your business.  RIMC often teams with one of its competent partners to perform these reviews.

  • > Mock SEC Exams

    RIMC puts its 20+ years of experience in managing SEC exams to good use in conducting mock exams for advisers and funds.  Whether you want an overview exam or a simulated experience with an actual examiner, RIMC can fill both roles.

Defined Projects

RIMC provides a structured approach to managing your projects.  Regardless of the size or complexity of your firm, we are well positioned to hit the ground running in taking control of these projects.

 

  • > Compliance Program Development

    RIMC builds meaningful, risk-based compliance programs.  RIMC’s principal has been building and perfecting compliance programs for 20+ years.

     

  • > Cybersecurity Program Development

    To be clear, RIMC is not a technology provider and will not fill your technology needs.  However, we understand cybersecurity issues and related processes, and routinely build functional cybersecurity programs with our clients.  In this constantly evolving space, RIMC has established a thoughtfully structured project management process designed to ensure the adviser establishes a program that fits (including, for example, customized incident response plans and service provider oversight processes).

     

  • > Disaster Recovery Plan

    RIMC’s plans are customized, flexible and practical.  Using an off-the-shelf plan?  Contact us to learn how RIMC’s process can enhance your firm’s process.

  • > Fund Service Provider Search

    RIMC will lead your service provider search, including creating a customized RFP and managing the selection process.  We are confident the fees you pay RIMC will be more than offset by the fees you save during the contract negotiation process.

  • > Marketing Materials Review

    Reviewing marketing materials is as much art as it is science.  RIMC’s principal has 20+ years’ experience in reviewing adviser marketing materials, and understands when to apply art or science to the marketing material review process.

  • > SEC Exam Management

    RIMC’s principal has a history of successfully managing SEC exams, and can help you successfully prepare your staff for an impending exam, as well as help you successfully navigate the exam itself.

  • > Employee Education

    Educating employees on compliance matters is a critical component of your compliance program.  RIMC takes a thoughtful, yet engaging approach to educating employees.

  • > Compliance Management Platform Implementation

    Online compliance management platforms have come a long way.  RIMC can help you analyze your options, and can manage the implementation process.

  • > Customized one-time projects/engagements

    Got a project in mind?  If RIMC is not the right fit, we will offer advice on who may be.

CONSULTING

Independent Consulting

RIMC’s independent consulting model is designed to remove all barriers impeding a consultant’s ability to provide meaningful and timely advice to clients.

 

Select Clientele

RIMC chooses to work with a limited number of clients, without the pressure to take on clients or projects specifically to meet a fixed cost overhead or meet outside investors’ expectations.

 

Service

Consultants should be experts, and should not learn on the job.  By remaining independent while partnering as appropriate with other qualified consultants, RIMC can offer advisers and funds extensive expertise combined with deep experience.  None of RIMC’s clients are serviced by a consultant with less than 15 years of experience.

 

Focus

RIMC’s business model is very simple: focus on working with clients rather than spending time on marketing, analyzing budgets and cash flow projections, managing staff and dealing with firm administration issues.

 

Value

The independent consulting approach allows RIMC to provide a high quality of services to clients, typically for less than clients would pay a traditional consulting firm.  A win-win scenario.

 

 

EXPERIENCE

Jeff Squires

Jeff Squires, RIMC’s principal, has worked in the investment management industry for 20+ years, including 15 years’ experience consulting directly to funds and advisers.

 

 

Jeff’s professional background includes:

 

• Founding Principal of Vista360, LLC, a consulting firm to the investment management industry.

 

• Chief Compliance Officer and member of the Senior Management Committee and Board of Directors for U.S. Bancorp Asset Management, a $100+ billion multi-disciplined investment management firm.

 

• Senior Vice President of Compliance and Operations for FIRMCO, a mid-sized investment adviser serving high net worth and institutional clients, including a proprietary mutual fund family.

 

• Audit positions with Robert W. Baird & Company, Inc. and Price Waterhouse.

 

• Bachelor of Arts degree in accounting from Illinois Wesleyan University.

 

 

 

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Relativity Investment Management Consulting, LLC

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