Kip Meadows started Nottingham more than 30 years ago to serve the accounting, administration, organization, and management needs of clients nationwide

ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, UNITED STATES, July 27, 2017 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Because of the importance of the major banks and their trust departments in North Carolina, the fund management sector in North Carolina was still in its infancy before Frank "Kip" Meadows changed all that in the mid 1980’s. At that time independent investment management (independent from banks or major brokerage firms) was concentrated largely in the northeastern US with a few minor influencers in southern states such as North Carolina. In the late 1980’s Meadows began to hear many of those independent investment management firms complain about the effort and time demands of separately managed accounts. So he founded Nottingham to build and operate pooled investment vehicles for investment advisory firms. At the time 1940 Act mutual funds was really the only option. As the CEO of the company Meadows has managed to turn it into one of the largest independently owned fund administration and accounting firms in the United States as a whole.

Kip Meadows dedication to developing a family atmosphere at Nottingham, along with treating each client on an individual basis, has been the driving force behind the company’s success. Since 1986 Nottingham has shepherded the organization of more than 250 funds representing billions of dollars in assets and they have provided an economical, service oriented platform for the managers of these funds along the way. In addition to assisting with the legal and regulatory organization of these funds, Nottingham also provides fund accounting services, fund administration and compliance oversight, shareholder services, and financial statement preparation. This allows their clients to concentrate on investment strategies and fund growth instead of highly specialized operational tasks.

There are many different types of funds in the financial markets these days and Nottingham has experience in handling a wide spectrum of them. The list is extensive, but it includes ETF’s, including actively managed ETF exemptive relief, hedge funds, closed end interval funds, and their initial core offering, open end mutual funds.

Nottingham has also leveraged its mutual fund accounting prowess into unitized accounting and participant record keeping for a growing number of foundations, endowments including several church investment pools, and a number of government investment programs including local government investment pools (LGIP), joint powers authority (JPA) and a proprietary ultra short fixed income program specifically designed for government and institutional cash management programs.

Nottingham remains the only transfer agent registered with SEC in the southeastern US.

Kip Meadows received an AB in Economics from Duke University in 1982. He made the decision to found Nottingham in 1988 with the premise that there was a need to assist the investment advisory community in gaining efficiencies through pooling smaller accounts into organized investment funds. He remains active with his alma mater Duke serving in a variety of roles within the Alumni Association including Alumni Admissions Advisory Council for more than 22 years.

Frank Meadows has also helped form church endowment investment programs at two Episcopal parishes. He is an avid sailor having helmed four national championship campaigns.

Frank "Kip" Meadows
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