OASIS Investment Strategies is an institutional provider of customized, separately managed cash and collateral management services for alternative investment firms

Customized Cash Management

Alpha on your operational cash is great, but not if it comes at the expense of increased risk to your firm or your clients. We start by understanding your liquidity requirements, risk tolerance and return objectives. These drive the decisions we make about how to structure your customized, separately managed portfolio. We adhere to your liquidity needs from both an operational and regulatory point of view, mindful of market trends and volatility.

Pro-Active Margin and Collateral Management

At OASIS, we are dedicated to optimizing the return on excess margin capital while minimizing non-yield producing assets. Actively managing excess margin is a virtually untapped area for producing additional returns, and you can count on us to deliver because of our hands-on approach and experience converting margin cash to yield-enhancing collateral. We’re the logical alternative to static separately managed accounts and money market funds.

Leverage Our Custodial Relationship

Wells Fargo Bank is our preferred custodian. We can facilitate the opening of a custody account in a timely, efficient manner. Customer assets are not combined or co-mingled, and have no exposure to OASIS or our affiliated companies.

Leverage Our Innovations

We understand the importance of squeezing every extra basis point out of the assets available. Our mandate is to maximize returns regardless of the interest rate cycle or trading levels. And that requires innovation.

Here’s just a few of our innovations in cash and collateral management:

  • Establish a protocol to convert excess margin into pledge-eligible securities
  • Investing both excess and margin cash for our clients
  • Utilization of multiple types of U.S. Agency structured products for margin
  • Depositing funds into FDIC-insured bank accounts, and acting as the fiduciary
  • Pledging collateral for margin at exchanges, prime brokers or carry brokers
  • Using non-money-center bank repurchase agreement counterparties
  • Developing relationships with untraditional counterparties, such a boutique broker-dealers, in order to provide additional liquidity and funding capabilities

With more than $4 billion in assets under management, we have the connections, market depth, research and resources to deliver institutional-quality execution, no matter your portfolio size.

Acting strictly as agents on your behalf, our daily attention to your cash holdings can produce alpha and satisfy the most discriminating of your investors. For each of our clients, we provide a customized, separately managed portfolio that is structured to meet specific cash flow, maturity, credit quality and investment objectives.

Leverage Our Experience

We’ve been the cash and collateral manager for the largest independent FCM in the United States since 2007, and a registered RIA since 2010.

Leverage Our Investment Access

As a manager with billions in assets, we have access to investment products from primary dealers as well as regional brokers, We can tap into a broad range of products and services available in the cash management world.

Leverage Our Custodial Relationship

Wells Fargo Bank is our preferred custodian, keeping each customer’s investments separate and segregated. And, we can help you set up a separately managed custody account at Wells Fargo in a timely, efficient manner. Customer assets are not combined or co-mingled, and have no exposure to Wells Fargo, OASIS or our affiliated companies.

Treasury and Back-Office Support

Focus more on strategy and revenue and less on operational busywork. On your direction, we can take care of moving money on a daily basis, being the payment facilitator for subscriptions and redemptions, and coordinating with administrators and operational banks.

OASIS Investment Strategies is an institutional provider of customized, separately managed cash and collateral management services for alternative investment firms.

We’re a team who is passionate about the nuances of that business, and we continually seek new, innovative ways to deliver returns in the increasingly important arena of cash management. The new regulatory environment created by BASEL III and Tier 1 regulatory capital, coupled with money market reform, has shone a spotlight on the importance of cash management for the alternative industry. We believe that with our approach, you can increase not only your alpha, but also your asset-earning account base.

Customized Cash Management

Alpha on your operational cash is great, but not if it comes at the expense of increased risk to your firm or your clients. We start by understanding your liquidity requirements, risk tolerance and return objectives. These drive the decisions we make about how to structure your customized, separately managed portfolio. We adhere to your liquidity needs from both an operational and regulatory point of view, mindful of market trends and volatility.

Pro-Active Margin and Collateral Management

At OASIS, we are dedicated to optimizing the return on all margin related capital utilized by minimizing non-yield producing assets. Actively managing excess margin is a virtually untapped area for producing additional returns, and you can count on us to deliver because of our hands-on approach and experience converting margin cash to yield-enhancing collateral. We’re the logical alternative to static separately managed accounts and money market funds.

Leverage Our Custodial Relationship

Wells Fargo Bank is our preferred custodian. We can facilitate the opening of a custody account in a timely, efficient manner. Customer assets are not combined or co-mingled, and have no exposure to OASIS or our affiliated companies.

Treasury and Back-Office Support

Focus more on strategy and revenue and less on operational busywork. On your direction, we can take care of moving money on a daily basis, being the payment facilitator for subscriptions and redemptions, and coordinating with administrators and operational banks.

OASIS Investment Strategies serves a broad range of alternative investment participants from private placements to public funds and the financial services firms that support them.

We provide institutional-quality experience and service to firms of all sizes. We are extremely well-versed in derivative markets, the exchanges where futures and options clear and the regulations affecting this specific niche.

Managed Futures Funds and Hedge Funds

At OASIS Investment Strategies, you’ll benefit from our in-depth experience managing cash and collateral for CTAs, hedge funds and other financial institutions.

  • Access to a wide range of institutional investment
  • Seek to produce additional yield with a customized, separately managed investment portfolio
  • Convert cash margin into pledge-eligible securities
  • Maintain customized daily and weekly liquidity requirements
  • Avoid money market fund’s floating rate NAV, fees and gates, and navigate restrictive 2a7 regulations
  • Manage subscriptions and redemptions
  • Obtain custody account and reporting transparency

Liquid Alt Funds—40 Act Funds and UCITS

Make active cash management a priority when setting up your new 40 Act fund or UCITS, and attract investors with your commitment to prudent yield enhancement.

  • Access to a wide range of institutional investment
  • Seek to produce additional yield with a customized, separately managed investment portfolio
  • Maintain customized daily and weekly liquidity requirements
  • Avoid money market fund’s floating rate NAV, fees and gates, and navigate restrictive 2a7 regulations
  • Adhere to regulatory reporting requirements

Financial Services Firms

We work with a broad range of financial services firms—including FCMs, prime brokers, administrators, trust banks and fund platforms—to maximize investment returns on cash and minimize operational headaches.

  • Access to a wide range of institutional investments
  • Convert cash margin into pledge-eligible securities
  • Avoid money market fund’s floating rate NAV, fees and gates, and navigate restrictive 2a7 regulations
  • Route cash margins to exchange
  • btain custody account and reporting transparency
  • Streamline treasury services

Privacy Policy

R.J. O’Brien Fund Management, LLC (“RJO”, “we”, “us”), the managing member of O’Brien Alternative Investment Solutions, LLC (“OASIS”) operates www.rjoasis.com (the “OASIS website”). We truly value each and every one of our users and we take your privacy seriously. In this Privacy Policy, “user” or “you” means any person using the OASIS website.

As part of our normal operations we may collect information about you and how you interact with the OASIS website. Our Privacy Policy is intended to provide you with a full description of the information we collect about you and what we do with that information.

By using the OASIS website, you signify your agreement to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Policy, do not use the OASIS website. RJO reviews its privacy practices on a regular basis and those practices are subject to change. We ask that you periodically review this page to ensure continuing familiarity with the most current version of the Privacy Policy.

RJO and its servers are located in the United States and are subject to the applicable state and federal laws of the United States. If you choose to access or use the OASIS website, you consent to the use and disclosure of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and subject to such laws.

We consider privacy and security of our users to be of the utmost importance. Any future development of the OASIS website that involves the exchange of personally identifiable information will be treated with due discretion and will be fully disclosed to our users. If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@rjoasis.com

Personally Identifiable Information

In general, you can visit the OASIS website without telling us who you are and without revealing any information about yourself. There are times, however, when we might request that you disclose certain pieces of personal information to us. We will disclose the specific purpose of such requests when personal information is requested and will only use your personal information for such purpose. You may choose to disclose this information, such as your name, address, or email address. Please note that if you choose not to disclose this information, functionality of the OASIS website may be limited.

RJO limits access to personally identifiable information about you to our employees, affiliates and third-party service providers who we reasonably believe need to have access to such information to provide you with the information or services you request from us. This personally identifiable information is never rented, sold or disclosed to any other third parties unless authorized by you. However, for compliance purposes, and subject to applicable laws, we reserve the right to use and release any information that we have collected when we believe in good faith that a law, government order, or regulation requires it; that unlawful activity may have taken place; to enforce our other policies; or to protect the rights, property, safety or security of RJO, our users or the public.

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The OASIS website may contain links to other Internet websites. Unless expressly stated otherwise, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these websites, including these websites’ use of any information collected through cookies or other technologies when uses of our website click through to those websites. You should review the privacy policies associates with these other websites to understand how their operators collect and use information. This policy does not address the privacy or information practices of any third-parties.

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Do Not Track

RJO will automatically collect cookies and other non-personally identifying information when you visit the OASIS website. Due to this automatic collection, we currently do not have the technical capability to respond to do not track requests and therefore cannot honor them at this time. We reserve the right to update how we respond to “Do Not Track” signals in the future. Any such updates will be reflected in this Privacy Policy.

Security

The OASIS website has reasonable security measures in place to help protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. However, no Internet transmission is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee that security breaches will not occur. Without limitation to the foregoing, we are not responsible for the actions of hackers and other unauthorized third parties.

The OASIS website does not address anyone under the age of 13 (“children”). We do not knowing collect personally identifiable information from children. If you are a parent or guardian and are aware that your children have provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we discover that children have provided us with personal information, we will delete such information from our servers immediately.