A modern platform connecting professional managers and eligible investors
Professional asset managers should be able to grow AUM without multiplying accounts, administration and operational costs. trademakers is designed to make that possible.
Why trademakers?
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Live, verified strategy performance
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Optional independent auditing
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No set-up or reporting fees
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Fractional investment capability
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Multiple strategies within one product
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Protection against copy trading
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Automated administration and fund accounting
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Infrastructure designed for global scalability
trademakers(opens in new tab), an SGT brand, is creating a new generation of digital asset-allocation infrastructure designed to connect professional managers with investors through transparency, automation and direct access to verified strategy performance.
The vision is simple: make investment strategies easier to evaluate, access, allocate to and manage, while reducing the operational complexity traditionally associated with managed accounts, MAMs, PAMMs and fund structures.
Full Transparency for Managers and Investors
At the heart of trademakers is transparency.
Investors can access a comprehensive overview of available strategies, including live track records and strategy-level performance reporting. Strategies are traded live through SGT and must demonstrate a minimum period of verified live trading before being considered for inclusion on the public Trademakers platform.
This creates a clear distinction between theoretical or back-tested performance and strategies that have demonstrated their approach in real market conditions.
Where required, managers can also have their performance independently audited by BDO, one of the world’s major professional-services networks, with audit services available at advantageous rates.
The objective is to give investors greater confidence when comparing strategies, managers and asset classes.
Turning Strategy Performance into a Digital Product
trademakers transforms investment-strategy performance into a digital investment product.
Rather than requiring investors to manage multiple trading accounts, monitor individual positions or deal with complicated post-trade allocation processes, the platform is designed to provide a simplified, strategy-level investment experience.
This can significantly reduce concerns around:
- Post-trade allocation
- Execution matching
- Multiple-account administration
- Broker-side technical issues
- Hedging-related distortions
- Operational reconciliation
Investors see the performance of the strategy, rather than being required to follow every individual trade.
A Modern Alternative to MAM and PAMM
trademakers is the next stage in the evolution of traditional MAM and PAMM structures.
Instead of requiring asset managers and money managers to operate and administer numerous individual investor accounts, trademakers enables managers to operate through a centralised structure.
This allows managers to focus on managing one trademakers structure and portfolio, rather than dealing with the operational burden of multiple accounts.
The result is a more streamlined approach to portfolio management, allocation and administration.
A clearer operational comparison
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Traditional Solutions
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trademakers
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Numerous investor accounts
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Centralised structure
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Complex reconciliation
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Automated workflows
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Fragmented reporting
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Strategy-level reporting
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High administrative demands
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End-to-end operational management
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Infrastructure designed for global growth
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Manager methodology protected
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Multiple Strategies in One Product
One of the key advantages of the trademakers structure is its ability to support multiple investment strategies within a single product.
Investors can therefore compare and allocate across different:
- Strategies
- Asset classes
- Risk profiles
- Managers
- Trading styles
This creates opportunities for diversification and strategy blending, allowing investors to construct a broader allocation rather than relying on a single strategy.
For family offices, professional investors and other sophisticated investors, this provides a centralised environment in which strategies can be evaluated and allocations made more efficiently.
Fractional Investment and Wider Investor Participation
trademakers is designed with fractional-investment capability, allowing investors to participate with smaller allocations than might traditionally be required.
This can broaden access to professional strategies while also giving investors the opportunity to build diversified allocations across multiple strategies.
For managers, fractionalisation can provide access to a potentially much broader investor base and create a pathway towards increasing assets under management (AUM).
Built for Global Scalability
The trademakers infrastructure is designed for growth. Managers can potentially increase both AUM and client numbers without creating a corresponding increase in operational complexity.
The platform is designed to support:
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Multiple strategies
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Multiple asset classes
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Multiple liquidity providers
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Multiple investors
…while maintaining centralised operational controls.
This scalability is particularly important for asset managers and money managers seeking to grow their businesses without having to build increasingly complex operational infrastructure.
Automation and Fund Accounting
trademakers manages operations end to end, reducing operational complexity and dependence on multiple third parties.
Automation, centralised controls and streamlined workflows are designed to improve efficiency for both managers and investors.
The platform also incorporates automated asset-management fund accounting, helping to simplify the administration and reporting associated with investment structures. trademakers charges no set-up or reporting fees, further reducing the cost and administrative burden for managers.
The goal is to allow managers to spend more time doing what they do best — managing investment strategies — rather than managing administration.
Protection Against Copy Trading
Investment strategies listed on trademakers are protected against copy trading unlike traditional structures.
Investors receive strategy-level performance information rather than direct visibility of the manager’s individual trading activity.
This creates an important balance between investor transparency and the protection of managers’ intellectual property.
Managers can demonstrate their performance without necessarily exposing the detailed trading methodology or individual positions that form the basis of their competitive advantage.
Sterling Gent Trading (SGT): The infrastructure behind trademakers
trademakers is a brand of SGT, a BVI-registered multi-asset brokerage and investment firm.
The combination of brokerage infrastructure and the trademakers asset-allocation platform creates an integrated environment in which strategies can be traded, monitored, verified and made available to investors.
trademakers seeks to bring together the key components of modern asset management:
The platform is designed to support:
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Trading infrastructure
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Strategy verification
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Transparency
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Allocation
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Administration
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Reporting
…all into one streamlined ecosystem.
Creating a Global Marketplace for Investment Strategies
trademakers is an asset-allocation platform where investors — including family offices, professional investors and other eligible participants — can compare investment strategies across performance, asset classes and other relevant characteristics.
Rather than searching for managers through fragmented channels and relying on inconsistent performance information, investors can access a centralised environment in which strategies are presented using live, verified track records.
For managers, the platform offers the potential to reach a global investor pool, with no inherent limitation on the number of clients or the amount of AUM that can ultimately be supported by the infrastructure.
The Future of Asset Allocation
The traditional asset-management industry has evolved considerably, but many operational processes remain based on structures developed decades ago.
trademakers aims to modernise that model.
By combining the concepts of MAM/PAMM, fund structures, digital products, automated administration and transparent live performance, trademakers provides a new approach to connecting investment managers and investors.
For managers, it means greater efficiency, scalability and access to capital.
For investors, it means greater transparency, diversification and easier access to professionally managed strategies. Investors may also have the opportunity to select independently audited strategies, providing a further layer of reassurance when evaluating managers and allocating capital.
For the industry as a whole, it represents a move towards a more digital, transparent and scalable model of asset allocation.
making investment strategies transparent, accessible and scalable
Next Steps
Asset managers interested in presenting a strategy, and eligible investors seeking access to verified investment approaches, can contact Sterling Gent Trading for further information.
Important information: Investment involves risk. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. Strategy availability is subject to investor eligibility, jurisdiction and applicable terms. Independent auditing is optional and strategy-specific. trademakers does not guarantee investment performance.
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