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StoneHedge Partners Implements Cogency Alternative Investment.


BURLINGAME Burlingame, city (1990 pop. 26,801), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; founded 1868, inc. 1908. Burlingame is mainly residential, with light manufacturing (plastic and metal products, furniture, and computers). The city is named for U.S. diplomat Anson Burlingame. , Calif. -- Cogency co·gent  
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Cogency Software, Inc., a provider of Smart Enterprise Solutions(TM) for the financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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 industry, today announced the implementation of Cogency Alternative Investment(TM) at StoneHedge Partners, an industry leading full-service full-ser·vice
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 hedge fund services organization.

Cogency Alternative Investment is the first solution for the aggregation and management of essential enterprise-wide information, allowing firms to streamline operations, increase profit and deliver better service and returns to investors. Pivotal to its implementation at StoneHedge Partners is the flexibility of Cogency's core technology, allowing StoneHedge to roll the solution out to their own clients in a hosted model.

"Cogency is a critical component of our business and is already resulting in significant and measurable benefits for us," said Tim Straus, founder, Chairman, and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , StoneHedge Partners. "It is the backbone of much of what we do relating to relating to relate prepconcernant

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 our funds, from automating many operational processes to risk management and transparency oversight
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, all the way through fund management. In an environment that is going to require greater information flow between investors, fund managers, and regulators, we see the Cogency solution as fundamental to aggregating and delivering timely, accurate and relevant information to the right people at the right time."

"StoneHedge is the ideal business partner for Cogency as it is committed to providing a unique and high-value solution to the ever-evolving alternative investment industry," said Sameer Shalaby, CEO, Cogency Software. "The flexible and powerful nature of our solution and its core technology is well suited to the pioneering nature of the StoneHedge Partners business."

StoneHedge implemented the latest version of Cogency Alternative Investment, released in May 2004. This new version includes three primary areas of functionality:

--Fund management designed to have a direct and significant impact on an alternative investment manager's ability to increase firm revenue and drive profits by giving accurate, complete and timely visibility into the performance of complex funds

--Operational automation that integrates the front office with the back office, while reducing the need for manual intervention A procedure used in a lawsuit by which the court allows a third person who was not originally a party to the suit to become a party, by joining with either the plaintiff or the defendant. , to better serve investors with timely reporting and to efficiently address SEC reporting regulations

--Investor relationship management that includes a complete and industry-tailored investor module, providing fund managers and executives the ability to link investor information with their holdings, inflows/outflows and trading restrictions in a single integrated view.

Cogency Alternative Investment is currently helping some of the largest hedge funds and money management firms in the world accelerate their business performance by providing a targeted set of solutions that rely on the deep knowledge and expertise Cogency's team has in the alternative investment arena.

About Cogency Software

Cogency accelerates business performance by providing Smart Enterprise Solutions(TM) to the financial services industry. Alternative investment firms, banks, asset managers, insurance companies and their service providers use Smart Enterprise Solutions to manage and scale their businesses. Our solutions enable clients to gain access to data from limitless sources around their businesses, transform that data into useful information and put it into immediately effective context -- enabling them to take action and seize seize
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 important opportunities that drive revenue and client satisfaction.

Cogency Software is headquartered in Burlingame, Calif. For more information: www.cogencysoft.com or 650-685-2500.
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