HFS- Hedge Fund Services was headquartered in San Francisco, offering the asset management community: back office services, infrastructure, outsourced trading and actively supported or housed 200+ hedge funds and asset managers in over 100,000 sq. ft. with $134bn AUM across the USA. HFS advised, built, seeded or helped start a combined total of over 1,700 hedge funds, venture capital, assets managers, clean tech and environmental related management companies over a 17 year period. COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: HFS believed there were two ways to help an asset manager to create a competitive advantage: • Offer quality turnkey private office space with custom shared services under one roof • Offer key outsourced services at aggregated volume discounted pricing to all of its clients HFS offered an atmosphere that allowed asset managers to focus on investing in an attractive environment without the hassles of leases, IT set-up or maintaining an administrative staff- allowing managers to focus on research and investment performance. HFS created a cost advantage to fund managers by sourcing and providing high quality (best of breed) vendor services to hundreds of fund managers with aggregated negotiated volume price discounts as an outsourced service provider. HFS- Value Added Services (VAS) included back office admin services, investors communications, outsourced trading, compliance, IT solutions, capital introductions, start-up services, interim office solutions, onsite legal, and hedge fund insurance. February 2006, Bloomberg Adds: "HFS > GO" Bloomberg has added "HFS" as a ticker to access HFS's company research and service offerings. HFS will now be accessible to the entire Bloomberg network. Asset managers looking for service providers will be directed to HFS for research and information exclusive to Bloomberg users. "HFS has valued a long-standing relationship with Bloomberg for many years and this is another example of Bloomberg's commitment to our relationship".