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SOLUTION 05 Fund Management Process becomes platform. Platform becomes scale.

Q-LIA. Design the operating model with practitioners who have run funds.

Q-Lana Investment Advisors (Q-LIA) is the design discipline. A 100% subsidiary of Q-Lana Inc., registered in Rwanda, in the registration process as Investment Manager with the Capital Markets Authority. We sit with fund managers to conceptualize the operating model itself, not borrow it from a banking template or copy it from a peer fund.

Most fund operating models are stitched together as the manager grows. Q-LIA rebuilds them from the inside out. Investment process, IC governance, risk policy, monitoring routines, capital allocation discipline. All shaped to how the fund actually invests, not how somebody else thought it should.

Five work areas cover the full discipline. Fund establishment and licensing. Capital mobilization and investor relations. Pipeline, due diligence, underwriting, and portfolio management. Treasury, ALM, stress testing, and BCP. ESG, impact, TAF coordination, governance, reporting, and audit.

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The five work areas

The discipline, end to end.

The five areas are not a menu. They are the full discipline a professional fund manager has to operate, day one. We design them as one coherent system. They get delivered in sequence with proper dependencies, not as a stack of disconnected workstreams.

Work Area 01

Fund Establishment, Licensing, Governance, Policies, Systems & People

Stand up a simple, effective governance structure with clear decision rights. Implement a core policy framework. Deploy an auditable MIS covering the full lending lifecycle.

  • Fund vehicle incorporation and CMA-style licensing
  • Board onboarding and inaugural meeting
  • Investment policy, credit manual, ALM policy, ESMS, data protection, COI framework
  • Q-Lana Platform MIS deployment with UAT, dashboards, and investor data room
  • Hiring and onboarding plan with role descriptions and competency targets
Work Area 02

Capital Mobilization & Investor Relations

Design an appropriate blended-finance capital structure. Engage DFIs, local development finance institutions, and impact investors with investor-ready materials and a well-organized data room.

  • Blended capital structure model with share classes, risk waterfall, governance rights per investor class
  • Investor data room: structured, access-controlled, regularly updated
  • Capital mobilization pack: investor deck, DDQ, term sheets, pipeline summary, closing plan
  • DFI mapping and anchor investor outreach
  • Fundraising synchronized to capital deployment plan, with realistic 18 to 24 month lead time
Work Area 03

Pipeline, Due Diligence, Underwriting, Disbursement & Portfolio Management

Build a credible pipeline. Apply a consistent eligibility screen. Conduct rigorous due diligence and underwriting under a Basel-aligned risk framework. Structure facilities in local currency with risk-based pricing. Monitor with discipline.

  • Eligibility screen plus DD checklist plus IC memo template
  • Risk-based pricing: PD, LGD, EAD-derived Expected Loss + Cost of Funding + OpEx
  • Conditions Register derived verbatim from IC minutes; Pre-Disbursement Authorization Memo with full sign-off
  • Covenant library calibrated to cash-engine logic, not balance-sheet optics
  • Routine reporting cadence; site visit program; early warning indicator triggers; watchlist and remediation protocol
Work Area 04

Treasury, ALM, Stress Testing, Cybersecurity & BCP

Manage liquidity prudently. Align asset and liability tenors. Run periodic stress tests. Protect sensitive data through proportionate controls. Maintain a tested business continuity plan.

  • ALM by tenor; liquidity buffer policy; FX risk management when currency mismatches arise
  • Quarterly ALM reporting to IC and Board
  • Stress testing under base, adverse, and severe scenarios with management actions
  • Access control policy with role-based permissions; logging and audit trail
  • Business continuity plan with annual test evidence and backup-restore documentation
Work Area 05

ESG, Impact & Inclusion, TAF Coordination, Reporting & Audit

Operate a proportionate Environmental and Social Management System. Track inclusion outcomes. Report impact annually. Coordinate technical assistance through an independent TAF with a clean firewall.

  • ESMS calibrated to the fund model; environmental and social screening at origination
  • Client protection standards aligned with industry practice (Smart Campaign, Universal Standards)
  • Impact framework aligned with GIIN IRIS+, 2X Global, and IFC Principles for Impact Management
  • TAF firewall protocol: permitted interactions, prohibited interactions, escalation procedures
  • Quarterly Board and IC packs; annual audit package with audited financials, ECL, impact report, compliance attestations
Why a separate subsidiary

Q-LIA is structured as a 100% subsidiary of Q-Lana Inc., registered in Rwanda. The separation is deliberate. It keeps regulatory licensing clean. It manages the conflict of interest between Q-Lana’s platform and advisory businesses. It localizes leadership to the markets we work in.

Q-LIA is in the registration process with the Capital Markets Authority of Rwanda as Investment Manager, alongside its existing Investment Advisory registration. The local entity sits inside the KIFC ecosystem, draws on Africa-rooted talent, and operates under international fund management standards. Africa-led, Africa-rooted, Africa-funded by design.

Track record

Practitioners. Not consultants.

The team is currently managing an Africa-focused impact fund. We have designed and structured fund management capacity for AECF Capital, the Microfinance Liquidity Fund (MLF) under Access to Finance Rwanda, and the SME Lending Fund Platform. We have launched three blended funds recently and worked across 10+ funds over the years.

Discipline first: pressure to deploy capital quickly creates lasting problems. Our experience confirms it. We will not disburse until governance, documentation, and systems are operational. The first six months matter more than the next three years.

Drill into the disciplines that Q-LIA installs

What lives inside the operating model.

Solution · Risk Analytics

The computational stack.

Rating & Scoring, PD/LGD/EAD, Expected Loss, RAROC, and the Risk Appetite Framework that Q-LIA designs for the fund. →
Solution · Lending Process

The five-phase lifecycle.

The credit discipline that Q-LIA codifies in the IC memo and the Conditions Register. →
Offering 02

The platform that operationalizes it.

The Asset Management Platform that runs what Q-LIA designs. Once installed, the team uses one system from origination to LP report. →
The discipline of design

The IC memo becomes the operating manual because the people who designed the workflow have written one before.

Q-LIA is the difference between a fund operating model that lives in a deck and one that runs the fund every day.

Designing a new fund? Restructuring an existing one?

Thirty minutes with a Q-LIA practitioner. We will start where you are: a fund in formation, a portfolio that needs cleaning, an LP commitment that needs a credible operating model behind it.

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