Well that's much different than the IA's I deal with. Remember, I work in a back office, all I deal with is IA's and institutional traders.
I don't like dealing with IA's because they don't understand anything. I once got a question from an IA, "could you let me know when this bond is going to make it's first interest payment?" The only thing was it's a zero coupon bond which they should know because they bought it for their client.
Instead, dealing institutional clients is much more interesting. Their concerns are more along the line of, "hey my P&L is all out of whack and I think it's because of what you did."