Ultimus offers full-service fund administration and investment operations support for all types of pooled investment vehicles, separately managed accounts, and product wrappers across public funds, private funds, retail alternative funds, and ETFs.
Expertise Overview
Fund administration and investment operations
Built on experience, driven by expertise
What distinguishes Ultimus is our ability to deliver greater value across the board by applying expertise where it delivers the greatest impact. That’s what takes a comprehensive offering portfolio and transforms it into effective, efficient solutions—and it’s why hundreds of clients trust Ultimus with fund services and investment operations.
We’re adept at responding to change and new requirements and are able to support nearly every investment structure and product wrapper for asset managers, private fund managers, institutional investors, registered investment advisors, and state governments.
Investment operations
We deliver investment operations solutions that pair experienced service teams with a connected data foundation, designed to fit and scale to your needs.
Middle office services
Our flexible, modular support across critical functions and workflows helps you address operational priorities without a full platform or operating model change. Delivered by experienced teams and enabling technology, you’ll achieve greater control and confidence across day-to-day operations.
Ultimus Enterprise
The Ultimus EnterpriseTM end-to-end platform supports operations, data, and technology across investment and fund operations. Through leading edge technology, high-touch service, and integrated data management, Ultimus Enterprise offers asset managers and asset owners a holistic model to support front, middle, and back office needs.
What we offer
Fund solutions
Our consultative, collaborative best-practice approach to fund administration leverages our extensive cross-domain expertise and experience to deliver optimized solutions for all investment types.
Public funds
With decades of experience servicing registered products, we are a trusted partner you can rely on for high volume retail investor activity, daily NAV calculations, SEC financial reporting, tax, and compliance support across your registered fund platform.
Private funds
From fund formation and capital raising through ongoing investor reporting, we offer a dedicated team of alternative asset specialists delivering high-touch service, integrated technology, and the precision your business demands.
Retail alternative funds
Our approach to retail alternative fund administration is built around you, pairing industry-leading subject matter experience and a comprehensive technology ecosystem to bring novel, complex products to market.
Exchange-traded funds
Our experienced professionals guide you through ETF product design and launch, introductions across the ETF ecosystem, regulatory navigation, and ongoing operations, supporting quick market entry and effective long-term operational management of your funds.
How we help
Do you have a specialized requirement?
Responding to new opportunities and challenges in an increasingly sophisticated financial marketplace demands flexibility and the knowledge to make your next move safely and effectively. Whether you’re looking to launch a new fund, switch administrators, or convert an existing fund, we bring years of experience and deep expertise to help you.
Join a series trust
Reduce the cost and complexity of launching an ETF or a mutual fund by leveraging an established series trust. Ultimus sponsors series trusts that include an experienced Board of Trustees, experienced and qualified officers, and established vendor relationships, supported by coordinated administration, accounting, and shareholder servicing.
Switch administrators
Our tech-enabled, high-touch, consultative service approach, efficient processes, and responsiveness reduce the risk and impact of switching fund administrators. With the Ultimus Engage onboarding model, you move through a structured transition process built to protect data integrity, limit disruption for your investors, and maintain continuity across fund governance, reporting, and service delivery.
Launch alternatives for private wealth
Bring alternative strategies to private wealth channels with strategic support for structure, distribution, liquidity, and investor servicing. Ultimus offers comprehensive retail alternatives support through disciplined governance, integrated servicing, and scalable operating models backed by deep experience.
351 seed strategies for ETFs
Convert existing assets into an ETF through a tax-deferred Section 351 exchange. Ultimus supports you from feasibility through execution and ongoing ETF operations within a proven conversion framework and established governance processes.
Technology that drive efficiency
We use technology as a force multiplier: an efficiency engine that enables better service and greater value. By integrating data and automating onboarding, client access, reporting, compliance, analytics, and more, you’re able to enhance both you and your clients’ experience while devoting your energy to more important tasks—and we’re able to apply our expertise to greater effect.
Frequently asked questions
What types of funds do you administer?
Ultimus supports the full spectrum of investment vehicles, including public funds (mutual funds, CITs, LGIPs, variable insurance trusts), private funds (private equity, private credit, hedge funds, real assets, venture capital), retail alternatives (interval and tender offer funds, BDCs, REITs, '34 Act registered private funds, Reg D, 1031s, Opportunity Zone Funds), and ETFs across active and passive strategies. Managed account platforms and public plans are supported as well.
What makes Ultimus different from other fund administrators?
Ultimus pairs high-touch, consultative service with technology used as a force multiplier, delivering optimized solutions for clients large and small, public, private, or in-between. Independence keeps us aligned with your interests, and dedicated service teams know your fund, your trust, and your investors—not just your ticket.
How does Ultimus pair fund administration with investment operations support?
Ultimus connects investment operations and fund administration within a single operating model and technology infrastructure. Because custodial, order management system (OMS), sub-advisor, and internal-system data are aggregated and normalized into a unified Investment Book of Record (IBOR) under the Ultimus platform, that data becomes transformable on demand, reducing reconciliation breaks and powering consistent reporting, deeper analytics, and decision-ready insight across portfolios, workflows, and stakeholders.
Can Ultimus support a new fund launch?
Yes. Ultimus partners with clients from strategy and product development through SEC filing, launch, and ongoing operations, coordinating with your legal, audit, tax, and distribution partners along the way. Clients can also launch within an Ultimus-sponsored series trust to gain an established board, governance framework, and shared operating infrastructure that accelerates speed to market.
What is the process for switching from another administrator?
Ultimus has deep experience managing administrator conversions across every fund type, with an implementation team that handles data migration, historical reconciliation, and parallel-period validation for a clean handoff. The Ultimus Engage onboarding model adds board and regulatory coordination, so investors, intermediaries, and fund operations are not disrupted during transition.