The FIS Group entities were established in February 1996 by Tina Byles Williams to provide innovative and effective investment advisory and management services to institutional investors. The company is 100% employee-owned and is a registered investment advisor with the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) under the Investment Advisors Act of 1940.

From its inception, FIS Group’s investment consulting firm, Fiduciary Investment Solutions, Inc., has provided strategic asset allocation solutions, manager research, and performance measurement for institutional investors.

FIS Group's Emerging Manager Fund of Funds services grew out of its founder's early passion and interest in identifying talented investment managers whose assets under management and firm size fall well below the selection screens for large institutional investors. Accordingly, in the late 1980's, Ms. Byles Williams developed a "farm team" comprised of emerging managers as the Chief Investment Officer of a major pension fund.

Since 1997, FIS Group has developed and continues to maintain a proprietary database of emerging firms that contains over 300 investment products, of which, approximately one-third are not registered with commercially available databases. This substantial resource, coupled with the deep experience and expertise of our management team plus the firm's sophisticated portfolio analytic systems are important keys to the successful performance of our emerging manager funds.