Over the past several years our firm has consulted and continues to consult with both U.S. and foreign institutions on numerous projects, in the areas of cross-border business consulting, international private banking, and product development including:

• Opening the doors for a nationally well-known business consulting firm, serving the U.S. investment management community, to the European asset management arena. Assisting in research projects and consulting assignments to the firm's European clients.
  
  
• Consulting to one of the leading U.S. based financial service companies in enlarging their asset management capabilities in Europe through building of strategic alliances, joint ventures and potential acquisitions of local money management firms.
  
  
• Advising very large US institutional asset manager on product development in the global alternative area.
  
  
• Assisting a European institutional asset management entity in assessing the best possibility to enter the U.S. money management arena.
  
  
• Benchmarking a leading European mutual fund company with U.S. based counterparts in terms of business strategy, product range, marketing techniques and more.
  
  
• Established a detailed study on the Private Banking Industry in Europe for a leading U.S. consulting firm specializing in advising high-net worth individuals.
  
  
• Analyzing the efficiency of an existing international private banking unit in a U.S. branch of a Swiss bank.
  
  
• Manager search assignments focused on US and European based money management talent for sub-advisory mandates.
  
  
• Assisting leading European based alternative investment specialist in assessing US hedge funds.

FS Associates, with decades of experience in multi-national investment management issues, is uniquely qualified to advise investment and financial institutions as to the methods of gaining access to market intelligence on a worldwide basis.