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PESS Directory - 2011
Foreword
Welcome to the 2011 edition of the PESS (Private Equity Software and Services)Directory.
4vco has been providing independent advice to private equity clients for nearly10 years and has witnessed the growth and maturing of a dynamic software andservice industry in the sector.
The 2011 edition of the PESS Directory contains profiles of over 30 supplierseach with a proven commitment to servicing private equity clients. The profilesinclude details of company backgrounds, products offered, existing clients andvendor contact details, plus a range of key facts and data.
The PESS Directory is updated annually at the start of each year and is availablefree to download at www.4vco.com. Individual supplier profiles can also beviewed and printed on-line.
The PESS Newsletter carries regular updates of news and events relating to thesuppliers listed in the PESS Directory. Visit www.4vco.com to register for thenewsletter. To keep in touch with supplier news as it happens you can alsofollow us at www.twitter.com/PESSNews
Finally, look out for details of our PESS Showcase events in New York (May25th) and London (June 28th) during 2011. These provide a great opportunity tomeet and assess the leading software and service providers and to network withyour peers in a relaxed but thought-provoking environment.
Thank you for your interest and we hope that you find the PESS Directory useful.All feedback is welcomed at [email protected]
Regards
4vco Team
4vco Disclaimer
Please note that all information in the Directory is provided by the suppliers.4vco exercises no editorial control over the content of the profiles and offers noguarantee of the accuracy of the information contained therein.
Contents
End to End Software
3i Infotech – Framework 2
AltaReturn 4
AnalytX 6
App-X 8
eFront 10
eVenture Systems Limited 12
Koger PENTAS 14
Relevant Equity Systems 16
SS&C Technologies (TNR) 18
SunGard Investran 20
Vantage Software 22
Vitech Systems Group, Inc. 24
CRM/Deal Flow Software
LexisNexis InterAction 26
Netage Solutions, Inc. 28
Touchstone Group 30
Asset Monitoring Software
Baxon PE 32
ClearMomentum 34
Document Depository Corp. (DDC) 36
iLevel Solutions 38
Fund Administrators
Augentius 40
Aztec Group 42
FLSV Fund Administration Services 44
Ipes 46
SS&C Fund Services 48
State Street AIS 50
Investor RelationsIntraLinks Limited 52
PEARonline 54
Consultancies
4vco Limited 56
Chatham Financial 58
Pcubed 60
IT Support/Services
Advanced 365 62
Capital Support 64
Eze Castle Integration 66
ERP Solutions M4 Systems 68
Expense Management TripsWare 70
General Ledger PS Financials 72
Infrastructure as a Service nScaled 74
Limited Partner Services The Burgiss Group 76
Reporting Services Mediasterling 78
Spreadsheet Management ClusterSeven 80
About us
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3i Infotech – Framework Ltd provides a complete,end-to-end private equity software solution for alltypes of organisation across the entire market.
The company was formed in 2000 and is amarket leader in private equity software. In 2008Framework became part of 3i Infotech, one ofIndia’s leading IT solutions and servicescompanies.
Last year, 3i Infotech had revenues of $517million and has clients in over 50 countriesacross five continents.
Customers
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Our Framework software is used by clientorganisations in Europe, North America and theMiddle East which collectively manage in excessof $200 billion of private equity assets.
Clients include limited partners, general partners,administrators, funds of funds, private equitygroups, real estate investors and developmentfunds.
To see a sample of our customers, please visitwww.3i-infotech.com/content/framework/clients.aspx
Our software
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For all types of private equity organisation,Framework helps manage risk, enabletransparency and increase operational efficiency.
Rich, easy-to-use functionality enables theinvestor relations team to manage relationships,handle documents and meet investor reportingrequirements. The investment team can trackcontacts and source deals efficiently with dealflow processes configured to match their specificneeds.
Investment performance can be scrutinised withcomprehensive investment monitoring, capitalstructure and valuation capability.
Framework supports the back office withpowerful portfolio management, fundadministration, general ledger, reporting and adhoc enquiry functionality.
Key benefits:
Efficient deal making is enabled by acentral repository for all contact and deal-related information with Outlook and Excelintegration.
Users are quick to adopt the highlyadaptable, easy-to-use and moderngraphical user interface.
Dashboards displaying key performanceindicators and other managementinformation promote access to powerfulinvestment performance monitoring.
Framework provides solutions for
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General Partners
Limited Partners
Funds of Funds
Fund Administrators
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Secondaries
Mezzanine Funds
Real Estate Investors
Infrastructure Investors
3i Infotech - Framework
Leader in private equity software
Our software cont…
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Configurable business processes ensureoperational consistency and the ability tochange practices in an evolving market.
Outstanding service levels can be achievedusing the dynamic reporting and ad hocenquiry tools to provide quick answers toinvestor queries.
Business growth and increased complexityis supported by Framework’scomprehensive, scalable and flexiblesoftware solution.
Our approach
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We are an ambitious, growing company andunderstand the important role that our customersplay in our future success.
Our aim, therefore, is for all of our customers tobe “happy and referencable”. To this end, we aimto set realistic expectations from the beginningand do everything we can to ensure that all ofyour objectives are met.
To ensure that we are up to date with industrytrends and market needs we regularlycommunicate with our customers, especially viaour active, independent user group.
This market information feeds into our extensivemaintenance service which provides regularupdates to help maintain the value of yourinvestment in our software.
Technology
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Framework is a Microsoft ClickOnce applicationwritten in .NET which offers significantadvantages over web-only products.
The benefits of this technology include:
Convenience. Simple deployment to endusers’ machines via a URL providing thebenefits of a web-based application withoutthe disadvantages inherent in browser-based applications.
Reliability. The isolation of applicationsbuilt in .NET plus automatic version controlhelps prevent versioning conflicts.
Performance. Customers who havemoved to .NET have seen significantincreases in speed in the order of 300-500% improvement.
Security. .NET provides systemsadministrators with powerful, granularsecurity control over .NET connectedapplications.
Ease of Use. Framework takes advantageof .NET to provide a cutting-edge, rich userinterface fully integrated with MicrosoftOffice applications.
Hosting options
Framework can be deployed at the client site orhosted by a third party company, allowing ourclients to focus on their core business andminimise the cost of IT ownership.
Contacts
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Europe & Middle East
Andrew Stewart
t: +44 20 7071 3000
m: +44 7852 766 067
www.3i-infotech.com/Framework
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North America
Sanjay Tolani
t: +1 347 862 9429
m: +1 347 439 4400
About AltaReturn
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Our organization was founded in May 2008 by
former senior executives of one of the leadingcompetitive solutions.
AltaReturn was released in May of 2010, as a fullsuite of software products tailored explicitly forthe Alternatives industry.
A next-generation technology, AltaReturnoutperforms other systems, providing acomprehensive high-performance solution thatdrives virtually every area of your enterprise.Created on Microsoft platforms and leveragingproprietary Vertice Technology, it issophisticated, yet easy to use – giving you thetools you need to build a better bottom line andthe power to take your business to a new level.
All key employees have an average of 18-20years of experience with financial systems,primarily focused on the alternative assetsindustry. The Vertice team powering AltaReturncollectively has over 100 years of experience indeveloping leading-edge solutions for theinvestment management industry, with more than1,000 successful implementations to its credit.
AltaReturn is headquartered in Miami, FL andhas additional resources in New York, Chicago,Dallas, London and Brazil.
Product offerings
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Available as an integrated end-to-end suite, or asindependently licensed applications which will fitwithin your existing infrastructure and technologyframework, we offer the following solutions viathe cloud (SaaS – Software as a Service) orinstalled at the client:
Accounting – Fund and Corporate, with theability to track complex fund and investmentstructures including multi-tiered ownership andAIVs.
CRM – Contact Management, Investor Relations,Fund Raising, Portfolio Monitoring and DealTracking
Business Intelligence – Custom Dashboards,Dynamic Calculations of Key Measures (e.g.,IRR, TWRR, Multiples), Presentation QualityReporting from an End-User Tool
Automations – Waterfalls (standalone, orincorporated in our Fund Accounting solution),Valuations, Interest Accruals and other complexcalculation models.
Web Portal (hosted only) – Investor Site,Portfolio Company Data Collection, Virtual DataRooms
All products are built on Microsoft platforms,using .NET technology. IRRs, waterfalls, andother complex calculations are performed usingour patent pending calculation engine.
The AltaReturn differentiator
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A unique blend of
technical expertise,
industry experience, and
deployment proficiency.
Key advantages
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Known, easily navigable Microsoft platform
Integrated data warehouse to simplify reporting
Process-oriented applications with workflows thatreplace manually intensive processes
Option to deploy on the cloud, reducing yourinfrastructure spending
AltaReturn
Next-generation software for the alternativeinvestments industry
About our clients
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Our current client list includes firms that invest inVenture Capital, Private Equity, Hedge Fund ofFunds, PE Fund of Funds, Energy and Power,Emerging Markets, Infrastructure, Real Estate,Leveraged and Management Buy-outs, andGrowth Capital. Assets under managementrange from $100 million to $35 billion.
Some of our clients have implemented the fullend-to-end suite of our offerings, while othershave selected specific modules from ourofferings to close gaps in their existing productinfrastructure.
Our team is well versed and experienced inproviding technology solutions to the alternativeassets industry. This is reflected by our rapidmarket share – signing 20 clients in the first 28months of operation, and winning business incompetitive situations against solutions withmuch larger client bases.
Software as a Service (SaaS)
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With current advances in cloud computingtechnology, getting world class softwareshouldn’t mean investing in expensive ITinfrastructure. We agree. As an option, we nowoffer AltaReturn on a subscription basis, hostedwithin our world class datacenter. Our facility is aTier 4 datacenter, with multiple active power andcooling distribution paths, redundant hardwarecomponents, and fault tolerant infrastructure. Asan extra safeguard, we backup your data offsite,so even in the worst of times, your data is safe.
Our support staff has decades of hostingexperience, which ensures that your systemsoperate round the clock, supporting your globaloperations. Couple this infrastructure with ourcost-effective AltaReturn products offered as aservice, and you can start right away - no lengthyinfrastructure build-out or time consumingsoftware installation. Once you are in production,we take care of monitoring your servers andbacking up your data, allowing you to focus onrunning your business, not your support systems.
Contacts
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Rey Acosta
President
t: +1 786 228 7800
www.altareturn.com
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Kimberly Kale
Director of Implementations – Europe
t: +44 7799 728058
About
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AnalytX defines itself, collectively, as both anAmerican and European company with nearlyequal head-count across the Atlantic. We arealso structured with a front and back-officeapproach to serving clients that results inmaximum efficiency and service delivery. Forinstance, in Europe we operate with a front officelocated in London, with software developmentand DBA support out of Central Europe. Webelieve that this approach maximizes economicbenefit combined with optimal quality in productsand services.
AnalytX began creating software solutions for thealternative asset community in 1993. TheAnalytX team has collective experience of over100 years in alternative assets. With a strongand proven client base across the US andEurope, and over 15 years in operation, ourproduct offerings reflect an accumulation ofhands on experience in alternative assets.
Products
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PEO PrivateEquityOffice
Built specifically for private equity and venturecapital fund managers with direct investment orfund-of-fund portfolios. "Dimensionalizes" yourprivate equity operation with life cyclemanagement, from opportunities through investordistributions. Includes powerful asset monitoring,IRR/Slice Dice, and robust tools for investorrelations. Unlike traditional accounting andPortfolio Management Software – PEO isdesigned to be adaptive to a multitude ofbusiness models and structures. This includesthe ability to be adaptive to future businesschanges adding reassurances of future proofingits usage within any organization.
Prospective and active portfolio companies aremonitored and serviced with dashboards. Theasset side includes transaction processing, built-in GL, capitalization structures, key performanceindicators, financial statement analysis andspectacular slice/dice IRRs. Prospectivefundraising opportunities can be evaluatedinstantly. PEO utilizes powerful tools for investorrelations including activity tracking, mailmerges,and batch reporting. Full capital reconciliation isincluded, with on-demand granularity forallocations for any investor. Automaticmanagement fees and/or waterfall rules can alsobe cleanly modeled.
Key facts
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300+ installations
15 years in operation
Global presence
Superior ROI
Products
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PrivateEquityOffice
WebLP
IOCapture
ObjectiveOutlook
ObjectiveFront
AnalytX
Innovation leader in providing mission critical softwaresolutions to the global alternative asset community
Products cont…
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WebLP - Managed Transparency
Raise the bar with WebLP dashboards for bothprospective and active investors. During aWebLP implementation, we (your provider)become invisible, whilst the application isbranded to match your corporate colors and logo.WebLP is about the speed and accuracy in whichyou can provide meaningful information to yourinvestors. Stay in control by previewing resultsbefore they are available for consumption, usePEO one-touch processing to easily publishcapital call letters, distribution notices, and otherinvestor reports.
IOCapture – Transparency at the Source
IOCapture is an Internet portal application thatsolves the inherent issue of timeliness andaccuracy of acquiring asset information forprivate investments. IOCapture streamlines theeffort required by fund managers to capturecritical information from assets includingcompany and fund of fund information. PowerfulAdmin Module synchronizes with PEO ondemand.
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ObjectiveFront Pack
ObjectiveFront combines the front, middle, andback-office on a single platform. The front-office(the deal professionals and the investor relations'teams) require a web-based graphical userinterface, with a visual rendering of the way theysee the alternative assets world. ObjectiveFrontfeatures a stunning user interface where everyscreen is a dashboard with user-selectablewidgets that can be sized or placed by the user.
ObjectiveOutlook (OO) provides full two-waysynchronization between PEO and Microsoft(MS) Outlook-and provides integrated emailmarshaling to the shared enterprise database,directly from Outlook. The OO listener serviceautomatically marshals any email received,enabling you to handle emails on the road fromyour mobile device (Blackberry, IPhone, etc).
Contacts
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Harjeet Thiara
EMEA Client and Marketing Representative
t: +44 20 7096 0144
f: +44 20 7544 1090
www.analytx.com
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Melisa Sweet
Marketing Associate
t: +1 212 731 2377
f: +1 800 816 0763
About
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The App-X team knows alternative assets. We’reindustry veterans who understand our clients’need to control information, gain clarity from it,and leverage data for stronger returns and largerimpacts.
We use the power of cloud computing for fasterspeed-to-value: less expensive, more secure,automatic upgrades, easy configuration, better fit.
Our core product, AIM, centralizes institutionalknowledge related to fundraising, investment duediligence and portfolio management. It is themost focused application of its kind andtransforms Salesforce.com into an investmentmanagement powerhouse.
Our new initiative, Pulse, standardizes metrics fortriple bottom line activities and reinforces acommon language for social impact investors.
AIM: Your insights realized
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AIM is a highly specialized application deployedand supported by industry experts. Our teamhas extensive experience in both alternativeinvestments and collaboration technology.
With the power of cloud computing, our clientsnever have to worry about maintaining hardwareor software and can immediately take advantageof upgrades and new functionality.
Clients
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App-X’s clients and partners include top firmsand institutions throughout the alternative assetmanagement and impact investing ecosystems.
We help our clients move from ad-hoc,organically-developed systems into reliable,productive, automated workflows with bettertransparency, more consistency, and assuredcompliance.
Carleton College Maranon Capital
Indiana University Northern Lights Capital
REDF Group
Macalaster College Prairie Capital
Ballentine-Finn Updata Partners
UTIMCO UV Partners
Gray Ghost Ventures RCP Advisors
Ballentine Partners Carleon Capital
Grassroots Business Aether Investment
Fund Partners
University of Acumen Fund
Minnesota Investment Plexus Capital
Advisors MicroVest
Inter-American World Resource Institute
Development Bank
Products
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AIM: centralizes institutional knowledge relatedto fundraising, investment due diligence andportfolio management.
Pulse: standardizes metrics for social impactinvesting and triple bottom line activities.
Clients include:
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Endowments
Wealth managers/family offices
Social investors
Funds of funds
Fund managers
Application Experts (App-X)
Cloud-based solutions for fundraising, LPmanagement, investment pipeline tracking, portfoliomanagement and triple bottom line reporting
AIM features
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Fundraising and LP management
Clear visibility into interactions with potentialLimited Partners
Proactive relationship management
Real-time access to fundraising progress
Centralized access to Limited Partner contactsand communication preferences
Portal for secure distribution of documents andreports
Investment pipeline management
Best-in-class due diligence checklists
Coherent audit trail retention and reporting
Real-time investment pipeline reporting spanningmultiple asset classes
Portfolio management
Simplified portfolio monitoring and analysis
API integration with backend data systems
Best in class on-demand reporting
For more information
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AIM: Kevin Kelly Pulse: Stevan Simich
t: +1 303 565 5923 t: +1 303 565 5921
e: [email protected] e: [email protected]
Pulse: the heart of social impact
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In June of 2009, New York-based Acumen Fundintroduced Pulse, a metrics tool developed byengineers from Google and in partnership withRockefeller Foundation, Skoll Foundation, B-Lab,PricewaterhouseCoopers, Salesforce.comFoundation, Deloitte, Kellogg Foundation,Lodestar Foundation, and others.
Pulse won a Fast Company Magazine SocialCapitalist award. It represents the next stage insocial impact: the holistic and standardizedmeasurement of social impact activities. Pulseleverages the Impact and Reporting InvestmentStandards (IRIS) Taxonomy of metrics creating acommon language for social and environmentalimpact.
In the first quarter of 2010, Acumen Fundselected App-X as Pulse Manager because ofour demonstrated ability to make customerssuccessful using on-demand software and ourintimate knowledge and experience in alternativeinvestment management and managing diverseportfolio data.
App-X will continue to develop, market anddeploy Pulse for organizations (impact investors,non-profits, foundations) that want to trackmetrics for financial, operational and socialexcellence. Pulse is free to qualifying non-profits.
Contacts
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Kevin Kelly
CEO/Co Founder
t: +1 303 565 5923
www.app-x.com
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Joe McVicker
CTO/Co Founder
t: +1 508 358 2198
About
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eFront is a software provider that specialises inthe alternative asset management industry.
FrontInvest, eFront’s flagship product, is theleading alternative investment solution in Europe,and serves a growing number of customers inNorth America, Asia and in the Middle Eastregions.
Within the competitive landscape, eFront’sproduct strategy is differentiated by large R&Dinvestments and a constant effort to turn thelatest technologies into unmatched functionalreach, flexibility and user ergonomics.
Founded in 1999, eFront employs over 170 staffand has offices in London, New York, Montreal,Paris, Dubai, Hong Kong, Bonn and Jersey.
eFront is listed on Alternext, by NYSE Euronext.
Clients
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eFront solutions serve over 250 customersworldwide, including venture capital and buyoutfirms, secondary funds, mezzanine funds, fund offunds, institutional investors (banks, insurancecompanies, pension funds, sovereign wealthfunds) and fund administrators.
Product
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FrontInvest
FrontInvest unifies your teams and processesaround a common information system, renderingdata reliable and manageable. Thefunctionalities include:
Portfolio monitoring (GPs, LPs, and fundadministrators)
Investor and fund management
Cash flow forecasting
Accounting
Deal flow management
Contact and document management
Internal control and compliance
Investor/Investee web portal
Custom report designer.
Further modules such as Advanced Cash Flow,Loan Management and Fund Raising can beadded as your team grows or strategic directionchanges. You only install what you need, withminimal disruption of daily work flow.
Developed using web technology, FrontInvestallows faster and easier implementation andmaintenance. The modular architecture andextensive functional reach make FrontInvestsuited for all branches of the AlternativeInvestments industry.
Key facts
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250+ clients in 30 countries
170+ employees
Offices in 8 countries
2009 revenue growth: +38%
R&D: 20% of 2009 revenues
Corporate values
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Keeping R&D and innovation at the centre of ourdevelopment strategy
Maintaining high satisfaction level among ourclients
Adding business value through a partnershiprelation with our clients
eFront
Number 1 provider of alternative investmentsoftware solutions in Europe
Services
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Implementation
The implementation project allows thedeployment of FrontInvest’s full power throughperfect integration with existing IT environment,organisation and processes, including validationand management procedures. In addition,eFront solutions easily adapt to your company'sspecific vocabulary and ergonomic preferences.The eFront university provides first classtrainings to future users and administrators on allavailable functionality.
Depending on your internal IT resources andrequired investment timing, license ownershipand hosting can follow different models, includingserver hosting or full outsourcing.
Support and post-implementation
As our solutions are constantly upgraded to takeadvantage of the latest technologies andAlternative Investment "market practices", eFrontcustomers benefit from regular, non-disruptivesolution updates.
Support teams are available for a variety ofrequests, including “how to” questions, additionalcustom report design, new module installationand associated training.
Key benefits
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An integrated multi asset class software
FrontInvest offers a complete front to back officeplatform from fund raising to fund accounting forall different asset classes including: privateequity, real estate, fund of hedge funds and fundof funds.
Information is centralised on one single datarepository and made accessible to all the teams.
Operational and business risk management
FrontInvest manages operational risk throughprofessional tools and reports and business riskthrough cash flow forecasting, exposure analysisand business workflows.
Sophisticated and flexible reporting
FrontInvest provides sophisticated analysis andreporting meeting investor needs through EVCAcompliant reports and detailed adhoc analysis.
Business operation processing
FrontInvest is a business process driven solution,enabling the management of the investmentprocess and investor relations.
Contacts
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London +44 20 7420 0640
New York +1 212 220 0660
Montreal +1 514 360 3477
Paris +33 1 49 96 40 60
www.efront.com
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Dubai +971 4 437 0740
Hong Kong +852 2297 2856
Bonn +49 228 323 04.0
Jersey +44 153 461 0969
About
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eVenture Systems is a European provider ofprivate equity software. We started work inprivate equity in the early 1990s and producedour first package product in 1999. To date, wehave sold in excess of 600 concurrent licenses(correct as at December 2009) to clients across14 countries.
Our software works on a Microsoft platform andintegrates with all versions of Microsoft Office.An update is produced each year which isreleased to all clients. The current release isversion 11.
Our software
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We offer 2 systems for private equity:
Kinetic – aimed at clients who do not needback office functionality or fund reporting.Kinetic is sold in a modular way with pricesstarting from £3,000 for a concurrent 2 usersystem.
eVenture – a comprehensive private equitysystem. eVenture includes a CRM module,deal flow, investor relations, portfoliomonitoring, as well as fund structuring andreporting to EVCA standard.
Both products are easy to use and highlyconfigurable. They allow custom reports anddata transfer to Outlook, Excel and Word.
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Our software has been externally tested by atesting organisation with ISO 9001 accreditation.
Clients
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Our clients represent a wide range of investingentities including not only the traditional venturecapital, buy-outs and fund of funds, but alsoindustrial companies, family offices andspecialists funds (including governmentagencies). Outside of the UK, we have a largepresence in Germany, Ireland and Spain.
Some key facts:
Our largest client uses our product in 7offices spread throughout the world.
Our smallest clients have only 2 concurrentlicenses.
We provide support in 3 languages (English,German and Spanish). Our manuals arealso available in all of these languages.
A multi-lingual dedicated client advisor isallocated to help each customer get the mostfrom their software. All client advisors haveMicrosoft Certification as well as otherqualifications.
90% of our new business comes to us throughclient recommendations.
Key facts
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Over 15 years in private equity systems
European focussed with multi lingual support
Packaged solution with regular updates, now inversion 11
Core services
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System supply and delivery
Implementation
Consultancy
Tailored solutions
eVenture Systems Limited
The leading European private equity systemsprovider
Services
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For new customers, we generally provide helpwith setting up, data migration, training andtailoring of both Kinetic and eVenture. Thesoftware is highly configurable and much can bedone without the need for additionalprogramming and extra cost. There are standardtools to help with data migration and datacleaning which further help with the process ofsetting up. Typically a small project can take aslittle as one to two weeks to implement, but largerand more complex projects will take longer.
Whether projects are large or small, they will beworked on by a team of specialists lead by aDirector. He or she is responsible forunderstanding the customer’s requirements,making sure that the software has been correctlydelivered and is within budget.
We understand the importance of client budgetsand where possible we will quote a fixed fee forimplementation against project milestones.
Ongoing support
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Our software is updated annually, and under theterms of our maintenance agreement, all clientsare entitled to a free upgrade, paying only for thecost of installation. Software releases improve onthe ease of use of the software, its functionalityand keeps our product up to date.
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The latest release of Kinetic for example,introduces the concept of Applets, extends ourdata cleaning support for international telephonenumbers, is Microsoft Windows 7 compliant, andis also significantly faster in operation than thepreceding version.
We are very proud of our quality focus with boththe design of software and testing being at theforefront of what we do. As a client of eVenture,you will have access to a nominated clientadvisor who knows the history of your system.He or she will have immediate access to the rightpeople to help with any issues that may arise.
Over the years, we have proved that we listen toour customers. Many of our new features startfrom ideas work worked through with clients.Clients are visited regularly at least yearly and asa client you will be offered an opportunity to joinour user group. A user group for eVenture hasbeen in existence since 2006. Regular meetingsare held in London, Munich and Madrid andprovides a forum for meeting other customers.
Contacts
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Surapongs Chaudakshetrin
Director
t: +44 (0) 20 8686 8300
m: +44 (0) 7803 295 973
www.eventure.co.uk
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About
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Established in 1994, Koger is a leading providerof technology solutions to the fund administrationand asset management industries. Kogerproducts are used by some of the largest andmost respected financial institutions in the world.
At Koger, we have 17 years of providingsolutions to the alternative asset industry, wehave expanded into the private equity industryand have leveraged off our world leadingsoftware to bring you PENTAS. With offices inUnited States, Ireland, Slovakia and Australia,Koger provides comprehensive technical support24 hours a day during business days.
Koger’s products include:
PENTAS – Koger’s Private Equity application
ETAS, a three-tier web applicationconnecting authorized third-parties withPENTAS
GRID, a middleware application thatfacilitates the STP of data in and out ofPENTAS
IKAS, a fund accounting platform that is fullyintegrated with PENTAS.
Products
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PENTAS
PENTAS allows for the administration of allPrivate Equity fund structures in a logical anduser friendly structure.
It has been specifically designed by the user, forthe user, in order to streamline and automate theadministration requirements of a Private Equityfund, using robust functionality. It offers flexibilityand greater control to the user in the processingof transactions while automating specificprocesses to ensure the accuracy and efficiencyin the administration of these types of funds.
Functionality
Private Equity specific fund set-up options
Versatile set-up of limited partners
Commitments at each stage of the fundlaunch.
Flexible drawdown and distributiontransaction processing; allowing the user todefine participants for allocation of suchtransactions.
Cash flow reconciliation on drawdownreceipts for Investment Managers’.
Key facts
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Founded in 1994
24-5 client support
Global client base
Significant R&D investments
Client comes first
Core services
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Dynamic and flexible application
Fully automated calculations
Significant client input into product development
Consulting and professional services
Training
Koger PENTAS
A leading provider of software solutions foralternative investement managers
Products cont…
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Automated carried interest calculation,allocation and processing.
Automated calculation and allocation ofmanagement fees with built in, industrystandard fee types.
User defined dashboard for quickaccessibility and effective task completion.
Comprehensive suite of reports fulfillingstandard investor requirements and meetingindustry specific requirements as outlined byBVCA, EVCA and PEIGG.
Key benefits
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Dynamic Private Equity module designed tocater for structures from the basic PrivateEquity fund to more complex fund of funds ormaster feeder structures.
Ability to define tiered management fees atthe set-up stage for the system toautomatically calculate per specifications.
Automation of carried interest calculation andallocation providing information accuratelyand efficiently for both reconciliation andreporting purposes.
Ability to re-allocate limited partnersinvestments into the fund over the periodbetween the first and final close. Alsoproviding the option to calculate anyassociated re-allocation premiums.
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Automated journal entries for all transactionsprocessed as part of the administration of thefund.
Administration processes simplified for userefficiency and accuracy.
Variety of reporting options for both fundperformance and Investors’ capital reporting.
Designed for full integration with all otherKoger products.
Strategy and ethos
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Koger is focused on providing the most effectivesystem to the market whilst offering continuedsupport to its clients in line with their businessneeds. Our aim is continuous improvement in theproduct and service we provide. Our strategy isto provide a logical, user friendly system toincrease user efficiency and robustness of dataoutput.
Contacts
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Keith Parker
Sales and Marketing Manager,EMEA
t: +353 1 476 4120 ext 406
www.kogerusa.com
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Chris DeNigris
Marketing and Sales Manager,North America/Caribbean
t: +1 201 291 7747 x 121
m: +1 917 755 7714
Additional lines
About
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Relevant Equity Systems delivers dynamic,
time-proven solutions to address the myriadchallenges of the private equity community. Ourproducts and services enable industry-leadingfirms from around the globe to increaseefficiency, gain unmatched clarity into theirinvestments, and improve critical decision-making.
We pride ourselves on being the “thought leader”in the private equity systems market. For overtwo decades, we have consistently led the field indelivering innovative and compelling tools thathelp private equity firms be more effective andgain more transparency into their investmentsand operations. Our main focus is always onunderstanding and addressing the uniquerequirements of all team members from generalpartners and finance to deal makers and fundraising/investor relations professionals.
Clients
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Relevant Equity Systems has delivered systemsto more than 240 clients in 20 countries. Ourclients cover a broad range of business modelsincluding: private equity, growth equity, venturecapital, real estate, energy, timber, fund of funds,and family offices.
Relevant EquityWorks
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Our flagship product, Relevant EquityWorks v6.5,helps you streamline your front, middle, andback-office operations, better administer yourprivate equity funds, and maximize return on yourportfolio investments.
The system handles a diverse set of asset typesincluding various:
Fund structures - partnerships, listed funds,French FCPRs, parallel vehicles, feeders,sub-funds.
Fund types - private equity, real estate,family office, fund of funds.
Equities - preferred, common, warrants,options.
Advanced debt - bridge loans, structureddebt, invoicing.
User-defined asset types.
Six key software modules form the foundation ofRelevant EquityWorks. They automate corebusiness processes, such as private equity fundadministration and partnership accounting, alongwith various work tasks. Numerous add-incomponents and optional software productsextend core functionality, enabling you to tailorRelevant EquityWorks to the uniquerequirements of your firm.
Relevant EquityWorks Core Modules
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Fund Administration
Portfolio Management
Deal Management
Fund Raising & Investor Relations
Contact Management
Reporting
Add-in Components & Optional Products
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Advanced Debt Acctg System Interface
Compliance Data Warehouse
Fund of Funds Web-based Reporting
Mid-office Analytics
Partner Attribution
Waterfall Obligations
Relevant Equity Systems
Time-proven private equity systems
User Experience & Speed
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Relevant EquityWorks v6.5 takes the userexperience and intra-team workflow to a newlevel of sophistication, convenience, and clarity.Common tasks are just a click away, navigationis smooth and intuitive, easy-to-use wizardsguide you through procedures, and drag-and-drop reporting is easy and efficient.
See more. Do more.
EquityWorks helps your back- and front-officework smart. Visual timesaving tools like the TaskPanel, Nav Bar, and Breadcrumbs guide youthrough every module, screen, and task. Yourdata is accessible, well organized, and easy tomanipulate.
Accelerate your workflow.
EquityWorks’ rich client architecture ensures splitsecond record access and report generation. Ouradvanced development techniques makecommunication between end users and yourserver extremely efficient, eliminating the needfor a slower, browser-based solution.
Empower your teams.
EquityWorks gives your staff all the tools tosucceed. Team-specific screens with all-inclusivedashboards, tutorial-like wizards, and team-favorite tasks and reports help your professionalsdo more in less time.
Tools & Reporting
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Relevant EquityWorks’ comprehensive, intuitivereporting both enhances your operation andprovides your LPs with insightful, visually-appealing reports. The Reporting module comeswith a library of over 120 reports, providing youwith instant clarity into all operational areas andaspects of your fund performance and portfolioholdings.
You can easily create your own reports usingeither EquityWorks’ “drag-and-drop” reportgenerator or “page layout” report writer. Our HelpDesk has also helped clients customize hundredsof reports to address every nuance of theirbusinesses.
Our Web-based Reporting product provides yourLPs with secure 24/7 access to fundcorrespondence. In addition, EquityWorksenables you to thread any combination of MSWord/Excel documents and quarterly reportschedules into a PDF packet and lets you emailthem out or post your electronic quarterly reportto secure LP-specific web folders.
IFRS and EVCA Valuation & Quarterly Reportingguidelines and formats are fully supported.
Finally, you can apply a “reporting style sheet” tostandardize the look and feel of all reports acrossyour organization.
Services
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System Implementation
Data Conversion
End-user & System Administrator Training
Help Desk/Technical Support
Customized Software Development & Reporting
Professional Services/Consulting
www.relevant.us
Contact
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Ray Haarstick
CEO & Founder
t: +1 781 250 4000
About
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SS&C is the leading provider of fundadministration services and software solutions forthe alternative investment community.
SS&C’s private equity fund administrationservices include client implementation, fund andpartnership accounting, capital call/distributionmanagement, investor tracking and investorrelations support, tax support, management andfinancial reporting and waterfall administration.
SS&C’s TNR Solution™ provides the privateequity industry with core general ledger andaccounting tools as well as advanced CRM, dealtracking and portfolio management capabilities.
Clients
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SS&C clients include:
Buyout
Venture and corporate VCs
Fund of funds
Hedge funds
Institutional investors (LPs)
Family offices
Real estate
Mezzanine funds
Placement agents
Advisors and service providers.
Functionality
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SS&C’s TNR Solution™ is an integrated platformfor both back office accounting as well as frontoffice contact and pipeline management.Modules include:
Fund and Portfolio Accounting
General Ledger
Investor Relations
CRM/Document Management
Deal Pipeline Management
Fundraising
Xtranet LP Web Reporting
Portfolio Web Portal.
TNR Solution is designed around Private Equity.The software supports complex master feeder,offshore, capital structures and holding companystructures, as well as multi-currency calculationsacross all funds, investors and portfoliocompanies.
The TNR General Ledger module allows forautomation of all allocations, journal entries,check writing, bank reconciliation and full audit-trail of all entries and changes in the system.
TNR Solution™ also provides full integration withMS Outlook, Word and Excel for synchronizationof emails, contacts and calendar as well as mailmerge correspondence and import/exportcapabilities.
Key facts
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1,350+ employees
5,000+ clients
26 Offices around the world
Reporting
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Extensive list of standard reports
Ad-hoc reporting tools
Ability to export preformatted data
Dynamic reporting tools such as IRR Analysistool
Data dashboards with in-built charting
SS&C Technologies
Leading provider of fund administration services andadvanced software solutions for the private equityindustry
Services
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SS&C is dedicated to keeping your project onschedule and within budget, while providing ahigh level of customer support. Our ProfessionalServices group offers a structured approach tosoftware implementation and provides thefollowing services:
Workflow Analysis
Data Conversion/Reconciliation
Software Installation
Training
Hardware and Network Analysis
Report Creation and Customization
Client Specific Software Modifications.
Our Professional Services team also managesongoing Customer Support. Following theimplementation phase, we provide continuedsupport to our customers through:
Technical/Customer Support
New Software Releases
Advanced Training.
Client testimonial
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“TNR Solution has greatly enhanced theefficiency of our finance team in the areas ofInvestor Relations, Fund and PortfolioAccounting and LP Web-based reporting.Support is prompt and accessible.”
Susan Soenderop, Onex Partners
Technology
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System architecture
SS&C’s TNR Solution™ is a multi-tier softwarebuilt around Microsoft’s .Net framework with SQLServer as the backend database.
The system is easily configured, and providesend-users with countless tools to customizedashboards, screens, views, reports and otheroptions. The software fully integrates with MSOutlook, Word and Excel.
SS&C provides full support, both on-site andremote, during all client implementations forsystem setup, configuration and on-goingmaintenance. The software is designed torequire as little technical administration fromclients as possible, and does not need constantmonitoring or on-going support.
Web services
SS&C’s TNR’s Xtranet LP Portal providesInvestors with dynamic online access to reports,correspondence, financials and other accountinformation. The two-way portal also allowsInvestors to submit change-requests online forcontact and other information. TNR’s PortfolioPortal provides a secure online link for portfoliocompanies to upload their financials and otherinformation directly to TNR. Clients can alsoaccess information on Blackberries or iPhoneswith TNR’s Mobile Reporting utility.
Contacts
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Fred Jacobs
Managing Director, Global Sales
t: +1 646 213 7104
www.ssctech.com
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Andrew Sexton
Managing Director, EMEA Sales
t: +44 20 3036 6800
About
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SunGard Investran is an integrated applicationsuite that automates front-, middle- and back-office processes for private equity and alternativeinvestment firms. Investran helps improvebusiness efficiencies to facilitate collaboration,support deal flow and automate accounting.Firms rely on Investran’s integrated capabilitiesto help meet their needs in the entire investmentlife-cycle, including relationship management,reporting, monitoring, accounting, fund raisingand deal pipeline management.
Clients
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Investran serves over 300 clients across 19countries. Investran clients include:
Private equity investors
Venture capitalists
Fund of funds
Family offices
Mezzanine lenders
Real estate investors
Fund administrators
Limited Partners, including pensions,endowments, insurance companies, banksand charitable organisations.
Services
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Investran provides investment professionals andback office staff the tools they need to managetheir fundraising, deal sourcing, portfoliomanagement, partnership accounting andreporting and analysis for private equity andalternative asset investment organisations. TheInvestran suite is natively integrated, providingfront-, middle- and back-office users with end-to-end integrated solution for alternative assets. Byleveraging the strengths of our products andhighly customisable features, Investran clientsimplement powerful and highly scalable solutionsfor their distinct needs, thus providing a uniqueexperience and service offering to their owninternal and external customers.
Services
_______________________________________The Investran solution combines a web-basedrelationship manager, tailored specifically for thealternative assets industry, with centralisedportfolio and investor accounting and reporting toprovide all of a firm's users with actionableinformation in real-time.
Key components:
Front-office portfolio and investor relationshipmanagement.
Centralised portfolio and partnershipacounting and reporting system.
Key facts
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140+ global staff in key locations such asLondon, Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong Sydney,New York, Miami and California
300+ clients in 19 countries managing more than$1 trillion in assets
Awarded Software Provider of the Year in 2009by Private Equity News
Core services
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Business solutions for private equityadministration and investor relations includingCRM, accounting and reporting
Professional Services
Training
SunGard Investran
A leading provider of front- and back-officesolutions for private equity
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Investran Data Exchange is a web-basedinvestor relations and portfolio monitoring tool.
The combination of: (1.) Investran’scomprehensive functionality supporting the entireinvestment lifecycle (2.) proven track record anddeep domain experise, with a team of globallycertified professionals who understand privateequity (3.) and stability of a leading globalsolutions organisation, provides firms a scalable,reliable solution, both now and into the future.
Professional Services______________________________________
Investran Professional Services offers a series ofsolutions to improve our customer’s businessprocesses, reporting functions and generalbusiness support. With proven and establishedmethodology Investran Professional Services canmanage and implement changes in clientrequirements and provide the needed expertiseto execute the growing needs of your business.
Professional Services include:
System assessment
Enhanced reporting
Process automation and system integration
User training
Upgrade support/services
Outsourcing services.
Other initiatives
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Investran Training
Introduced in 2009 as an initiative to further theeducation of Investran users, and help them toleverage their Investran solutions to the highestlevels of productivity per their unique businesses,Investran Training will be expanding over thecourse of 2010.
Investran Training will continue to feature bothbasic and more advanced sessions for a varietyof topics, in-person, regionally across the globe.The major difference for the 2010 programme willbe the introduction on an online training portal.Investran will offer monthly online trainingcourses at multiple times to suit the global clientbase. Courses will also be recorded and hostedonline for those users that need to learn at theown pace, or fit their training into a busyschedule.
For firms that have unique or more complexworkflows and learning requirements, Investranalso offers custom training courses, which can betailored to firm-specific needs.
Contacts
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Gavin Style
Global Head of Sales
t: 44 20 8081 1868
www.sungard.com/investran
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Michael Dickey
Senior Consultant
t: +44 20 8081 2262
m: +44 7912 031 665
About
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At Vantage Software, we’ve leveraged our deepunderstanding of alternative investmentoperations to develop applications that supportthe way you do business. Designed to easilyintegrate with other solutions such as third partyproducts or external data feeds, our products canbe implemented on a standalone basis or as asuite. This highly flexible and cost-effectivesoftware model allows you to:
Enhance capital-raising and strengthen clientrelationships through world-class investorservice.
Better support for investment decision-making and analysis of performance.
Maintain a competitive edge through agileadaptation to changing markets.
Increase staff productivity by streamlining themost complex processes.
Clients
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Operating in North America, Europe and Asia, weprovide General and Limited Partners withspecialized applications. Leading firms that haveembraced Vantage’s solutions manage in excessof $250 billion dollars in investment capital,ranging from start-up managers to Global Top 10alternative investment firms.
Products and solutions
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Encompassing the alternative investment lifecycle from investor marketing and servicing toaccounting, reporting and deal management, oursolutions support the unique way you dobusiness. This unparalleled degree of flexibilitydelivers a distinct business advantage to:
Private equity funds
Funds-of-funds
Venture capitalists
Real estate funds
Investment advisors
Institutional investors
Vantage Insight™
The Vantage Insight is a data analysis andreporting platform that provides state of the artdata-warehouse and business-intelligencecapabilities. Insight offers intuitive, graphicalreporting, analysis and performance calculationsfor alternative investments.
Insight connects to any data source toconsolidate information across investments,funds, strategies and clients for summary roll-upor drill-down analysis. From investor accounts toportfolio company operating results, Insightenables firms to centralize and unlock the fullvalue of their data for internal management andclient reporting.
Key facts
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Founded in 1999
Solutions for General and Limited Partners
Customers manage in excess of $250 billion
Operations in North America, Europe and Asia
Front, middle and back office solutions
Market-leading data analysis and reportingtools100+ assignments for
Core products
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Vantage Insight™ Data Analysis and Reporting
Vantage Deal Suite™
Vantage Investor Suite™
Vantage Fund Accounting™ and Reporting
Vantage Software
Specialized software for alternative investmentmanagers
Products and solutions cont…
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Vantage Deal Suite™
The Deal Suite provides unequaled support forinvestment lifecycle management. From duediligence to realization, the Deal Suite supportsyour firm’s unique fund and direct investmentmanagement capabilities with intuitive dealtracking, portfolio company operations analysis,investment team workflow, reporting anddocument management tools.
Vantage Investor Suite™
Vantage Investor provides tools to effortlesslymarket and service current and prospectiveinvestors. Designed to support complete investorlifecycle requirements or to integrate with andenhance outsourced administration resources,Investor allows you to gain and retain theconfidence of your clients throughuncompromised investor relationshipmanagement and enhanced reporting.
Vantage Fund Accounting™
The Vantage Fund Accounting and Reportingplatform delivers comprehensive portfolioaccounting, reporting and performance analysisfor managers and administrators. The platform’sstreamlined data capture, accounting and multi-currency reporting are designed specifically tosupport the unique requirements of high-volumeprivate investments environments.
Other initiatives
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Performance Calculation Engine
The Vantage Performance Engine offers rapid,flexible and powerful performance analysis.Never again wait for gross and net performancereturns and multiples, sorted, grouped or filteredany way you wish with results in seconds. Whenpaired with Insight you can achieve presentation-ready results on the web or via printed reports.The patented Vantage Performance CalculationEngine works with any data source, accountingplatform, administrator data and even Excel foreasy results that will enhance your reportingcapabilities while saving time and money.
Alternative Data Services
Efficiently managing alternative investments,funds-of-funds and private advisory clientspresents unique operational challenges.Manually-intensive processes, from trackingperformance to processing investor transactionsrequire staff, expertise and technology to scaleeffectively.
Vantage Software offers an outsourcedresources platform for higher efficiency andunlimited scalability that leverages the industry’shighest-value outsourcing and technologysolutions. Your firm’s unique operationalrequirements are analyzed, and a tailoredsolution is created based on your needs.
Contacts
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David Sayles
Director of Strategy & Corporate Development
t: +1 617 454 1400
m: +1 978 609 1419
www.vantage-software.com
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Greg Woolf
Chief Executive Officer
t: +1 617 454 1400
f: +1 617 454 1401
About Vitech
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Vitech Systems Group is a global provider ofworld-class business solutions to the privateequity, hedge and alternative asset communities.Vitech delivers solutions based on Equitrak, itsproven and widely installed enterprise-softwareapplication. Equitrak is an advanced-technologyapplication designed to meet the unique,complex and demanding requirements of best-practice alternative asset administration. Vitech'sclient base spans four continents and includesmany of the world's largest and most prominentinvestment organizations.
Vitech is a company of over 500 dedicatedprofessionals worldwide. Our professionalservices team helps organizations implementEquitrak to improve the efficiency and accuracyof their business operations.
Vitech’s services team possesses deep subjectmatter expertise, extensive technical skills, andunparalleled solutions delivery experience.Services provided include solutions consulting,project management, solutions design,technology installation, systems configuration,systems integration, training, and ongoingsupport.
Vitech is committed to the relentless pursuit ofexcellence in both the quality of its serviceofferings and the superiority of Equitrak. Vitechcontinually strives to ensure that Equitrakremains the most powerful, comprehensive, andflexible system available.
About Equitrak
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Equitrak is a state-of-the-industry administrationsolution specifically designed to meet the uniquebusiness needs of investment and administrationorganizations including:
Fund sponsorsFund administratorsTransfer agencyInstitutional investorsFamily offices.
Equitrak is a comprehensive, enterprise-classsolution that offers a complete suite ofcapabilities in a single solution including:
Fund administrationFinancial accountingInvestor registrationKYI & AML complianceManagement reportingInvestor communicationsShare allocationsNAV maintenanceTransfer agency processingPerformance analytics.
With Equitrak, your operations are built arounddefined, scalable, system-enabled best practices.Furthermore, Equitrak allows you to process andmaintain all of your transactional and non-transactional data across multiple fund types andclasses in a single solution.
Key facts
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500+ dedicated staff worldwide
15+ years of experience
45+ clients
Critical subject matter and domain expertise
What can Equitrak deliver for you?
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Best-practice operations
Improved service levels
Timely, high quality reporting
Straight through processing
Organizational scalability
An integrated, consolidated system
Vitech Systems Group, Inc.
Software for fund and investment administration
Who uses Equitrak?
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Equitrak’s extensive capabilities and Vitech’sglobal services team make Equitrak the choice ofthe world’s leading alternative assetorganizations. These organizations include:
Fund sponsors
Equitrak provides private equity, hedge andalternative asset fund sponsors with a completefront, middle, and back office solution.
Fund-of-funds
Equitrak addresses the unique and complexneeds of Fund-of-Funds organizations includingsupport for both primary and secondary interests.Advanced features for tracking underlyinginvestments allow for best-practice analytics.
Transfer agencies
Equitrak provides a full featured transfer agencyplatform for investment organizations to use fortheir complete investor servicing activities.
Institutional investors and family offices
Equitrak is the perfect choice for institutionalinvestors and family offices looking to track abroad array of investments through one or moreinvestment structures in a single system.
Third-party administrators
Equitrak’s administration and robust accountingfeatures make it a leading choice of TPAs.Equitrak allows an administrator to confidentlymanage any number of partnerships for anynumber of clients in a single Equitrak installation.
Equitrak technology
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Technology
Equitrak uses Microsoft .NET technology and aMicrosoft SQL Server platform. It is a Windows/Internet-Explorer compatible solution.
The Equitrak data model is an “open solution”that easily supports integration with your existingor planned technology infrastructure.
Reports are produced through seamlessintegration with Crystal Reports. The EquitrakSynch module allows contact and activity data tobe synchronized with MS Outlook. The EquitrakDocs module integrates with MS Exchange,SMTP, and third-party fax servers.
The system can be run simultaneously in multiplelanguages, multiple date formats, and multiplenumeric formats. Each user is able to select theirlanguage and formats.
Security
Equitrak employs a highly advanced securitymodel that allows screens and data to besecured at a very granular level. Security rightscan be administered by user or role. Equitraksecurity helps ensure that the right users seeonly the right data.
Equitrak’s Audit trail features track additions,changes, and deletions to system data by allusers. Audit reports provide extended securityand data confidence.
Contacts
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Hope Nawada
Director of Investment Solutions
t: +1 212 868 0900
www.vitechinc.com
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Scott Greenberg
International Sales Manager
t: +1 212 868 0900
About
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Understanding relationship intelligence and itsbenefits
A private equity firm’s most valuable asset is itsrelationships and the ability to leverage theserelationships to effectively raise funds andevaluate prospective investments.
Successful firms know this. And that is why over35 leading private equity firms around the worlduse InterAction to help them leveragerelationships, raise funds, manage portfoliocompanies and make sound investmentdecisions.
InterAction gives partners the right information,when and where they need it by aggregatingscattered data about companies, theirmanagement teams, and their vast network ofrelationships with entrepreneurs, limited partners,colleagues, industry advisors and other importantcontacts.
Transforming scattered data into thisRelationship Intelligence arms investmentmanagers and investor relations teams with thecrucial information they need to compete in thecompetitive deal-making marketplace.
Global implementation at 3i
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Prior to its rollout of InterAction in 2003, 3i userslacked ownership of data on the system and onlythe names and addresses of contacts wererecorded. As 3i’s key contacts tend to berelationships with intermediary firms, otherinvestors and FTSE chairmen who are partnersrather than customers. These relationshipscannot be graded according to widgets sold,number of new customers, sales, or how fastsomebody pays their bill etc.
Alison Craven, CRM Manager, 3i explains: “Thechallenge for us was not having a clear idea as tothe type of solution we needed. It was not untilwe spent time researching that we realised wewere in need of an intuitive relationship ratherthan sales based CRM solution that could beconfigured to our specific business requirements.It was clear to us that InterAction stood apartfrom competitive products in terms offunctionality and ultimately the benefits it couldprovide a professional services firm.”
Implementing InterAction
Individual teams use InterAction in many differentways with the firm collectively using it as arepository for relationship intelligence and to logtheir business activities. Investment teams use itto track deal origination efforts, the ComplianceTeam use it to check for updates against theDatanomics database (for PEPs, etc.), the
Client profile
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6 new UK PE clients in 2010
35 leading private equity firms worldwide
50% of the Top 100 UK law firms
Over 82% of the US AMLAW 250
36% of the Top 50 Australian/New Zealand lawfirms
Product features
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Deal Pipeline Management
Essential Data Quality and Data Changemanagement tools
Indispensible ‘Who Knows Whom’ relationshipmanagement feature
Seamless Outlook, Lotus Notes and NovellGroupWise Integration
LexisNexis® InterAction®
Transforming scattered data into relationshipintelligence for the private equity sector
Global implementation at 3i cont…
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Procurement Team use it to look at relationshipswith global suppliers, the Marketing Team use itto gain knowledge about the ratios of the firm’svarious audiences and the Digital Team use it tocheck that the firm is not sending excessivecommunications to any specific individuals.
InterAction hasn’t changed the way 3iapproaches contacts, but has assisted inenriching the firm’s collective knowledge about itscontact universe, improving relationshipmanagement tracking, and in making the firm’smarketing communications more targeted.
InterAction was rolled out globally all at once andis used in every single office as a standardcomponent of the 3i desktop. Alison Cravensays: “It was implemented very easily and hasn’tcaused any major problems since. We rolledInterAction out initially in 2003 and have hadthree upgrades since. It is fully integrated witheach of our investment systems, and ourknowledge management system. The fact that itis fully accessible from Outlook, and also fromBlackberry, is a big win for our busy executives.Reports from InterAction on activity with targetsand intermediary firms are a regular feature ofthe weekly team meetings.”
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Results
Alison Craven explains: “Since we useInterAction to record all our activities with targetinvestee companies, we avoid duplication of workand different teams in different locations are ableto collaborate. Knowing that relationships existhelps us get that all-important introduction to apotential deal. Our Marketing teams are able toavoid over communicating to any specificcontacts and ensure that everything that we docommunicate is relevant. Ongoing reviews ofmailing lists ensure that we always hit the rightaudiences in the shortest time.”
The firm has a CRM strategy for the next 3 yearsin which InterAction features heavily. Part of thenew strategy is to form a CRM Steeringcommittee, which will see investment teamsbecoming more directly involved. A CRM area onthe 3i portal will make CRM activities much morevisible putting relationship intelligence at theheart of all the firm’s activities.
Other financial services clients
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Terra Firma, Nicholas Applegate, SilverfleetCapital Partners, Inflexion Private Equity,Phoenix, Gresham, Apax, Catalyst CorporateFinance and Cinven
Contacts
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Natasha Langton
Marketing Manager
t: +44 (0)118 960 2658
www.lexisnexis.co.uk/enterprisesolutions
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Nick Bowles
Business Development
t: +44 (0)7827 082543
About
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Netage Solutions has one mission: to providebest-of-breed front-office solutions for the privateequity and alternative assets industry. It hasbeen our sole focus since the company wasfounded in 1998. And it’s the reason we’re stillindependent and growing, with more than 50employees, and offices in Boston, New York, andSofia, Bulgaria.
Because suite vendors and generic providersmust be all things to all people, certain usergroups inevitably lose out. That’s why Netage islaser-focused on the private equity front-office,specifically deal, fundraising, and investorrelations professionals. Our solutions arerelevant, intuitive, and easy to use, with the bestpractices needed to streamline processes whileincreasing productivity and results.
Clients
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Netage is a trusted vendor to more than 200leading alternative asset managers worldwide,including 100 PE/VC firms. Collectively, ourclients manage more than $400 billion in assetsand represent nearly 20 countries.
Read how Dynamo has helped PCG CapitalPartners streamline its deal management efforts.
Products
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Dynamo™ – A best-of-breed, front-officesolution for private equity and alternativeinvestment firms. Out of the box, this web-basedapplication delivers industry-specific capabilitiesfor deal and portfolio management, fundraising,investor relations, fund reporting, and more.
Key value points for PE/VC firms:
Proactively manage your deal pipeline fromlead to investment or turndown.
Maximize referrals and identify your mostprofitable deal sources.
Track portfolio company financials (e.g.revenue, EBITA, etc.) and valuations.
Target investors for new funds and track theirprogress through the fundraising pipeline.
Streamline generation of quarterly reportsand other investor communications.
Run capital calls and distributions on shortnotice and with utmost precision.
Dynamo can be deployed on-site, or on-demandvia Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), providing youthe flexibility to choose the model that best meetsyour needs. SaaS allows you to utilize Dynamowithout the cost and complexity of maintaininghardware in-house. While on-site deploymentrequires internal IT resources, it allows you toretain control over the application and your data.
Software applications
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Deal management
Portfolio monitoring
Fundraising/marketing
Investor relations management
Online LP reporting
CRM/Contact management
Dynamo advantages
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Industry-specific functionality
Simple, intuitive design
Tight MS Office integration
Frequent, client-driven enhancements
Expert service and support
Proven, independent vendor
Netage Solutions, Inc.
Premier provider of best-of-breed front-officesolutions to private equity, venture capital,and alternative investment firms
Products cont…
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Dynamo delivers an interactive user experiencethat uniquely combines the best web and desktopapplications. Tight integration with MS Office®streamlines functions, such as logging e-mailsand importing data. Dynamo also preservesExcel-like usability with right-click commands;drag-and-drop capabilities; and filter, group, andsort options. To top it off, Dynamo is highlyconfigurable to your workflow.
DynaMobile™ – A line of mobile apps thatextend the capabilities of the Dynamo platform tothe iPhone® and BlackBerry® devices, allowing“road warriors” to stay connected and workproductively. Users can look up profiles andcontact info, view and add activities, log calls ande-mails, map addresses, generate Dynamoreports, download/view documents, and more.
Dynamo Online Reporting – An integrated LPreporting system for providing secure, 24/7access to fund and account information, fromdocuments to live financials. This branded portalis a seamless extension of your website, yetcontains the state-of-the-art security measures(e.g. watermarking, copy/print disabling, etc.)needed to safeguard sensitive info. Moreover,documents and information can be publisheddirectly from Dynamo to the portal, generatingsignificant time and cost savings.
Why Dynamo?
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Designed for Your Industry – Dynamo was builtfor private equity firms, and delivers rich,industry-specific functionality out of the box. Adecade of best practices are embedded in theapplication—for instance, automated dealpipeline reports so your team is prepared for itsMonday morning meetings.
Accessible Anywhere – Dynamo is a web-based application accessible anywhere there’san Internet connection. And with DynaMobile,you can stay connected and work productivelyfrom the road via your iPhone or BlackBerry.
Integrated with Outlook – Dynamo tightlyintegrates with MS Outlook for ease of use andadoption. You can capture inbound emails (e.g.deals from investment bankers) with a singleclick. In addition, a “first degree of separation”feature enables intelligent linking to otherDynamo records for added context.
Expert Service and Support – Netage clientsreceive personal, responsive service from adedicated team with deep industry knowledge.Whether you call, e-mail, or post to our onlinehelpdesk, you will interact with support staff thatunderstand your business, and can offer bestpractices to optimize your Dynamo experience.
Contacts
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Stuart Sheppard
Managing Director, Sales and Marketing
t: +1 617 393 2368
f: +1 617 393 2371
www.NetageSolutions.com
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Kelly McGough
Regional Sales Manager
t: +1 617 393 3801
f: +1 617 393 2371
About Touchstone Group
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Touchstone Group is a leading partner andprovider of Microsoft Business Solutions in theUK and has been successfully implementingsolutions since 1982. Based on the marketleading applications Microsoft Dynamics® GPand CRM, we have over 135 clients in the privateequity and finance sectors, within both the UKand Europe.
Clients
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Our private equity clients range in size from smallto very large and cover a wide range of businesssolutions.
Back office
These range from general ledger andmanagement reporting to fully integratedsolutions that include business intelligence,project accounting and web-based expensemanagement.
Front office
Range from the provision of a base CRM systemto allow a single view of all engagements withexternal contacts; through to full deal flow,investor relations and event managementsolutions.
Our solutions
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Microsoft Dynamics GP
A multi-company and multi-currency, fullyintegrated set of financial tools with powerfulconsolidation and reporting.
Flexible account code structure which caneasily adapt to restructuring, add funds andmanagement companies quickly and easily.
Flexibility in data analysis and reporting toallow automation of reports for staff andinvestors.
FSA compliant with password expiration andsecure password rules, enforcing digitalsignatures with remote sign-off capabilities.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Comprehensive deal flow management tomanage deal life cycle in its entirety.
Track investors’ interests and appetite toinvest to provide a fundraising pipeline.
Understand the value of intermediaries byanalysing introductions against fees paid.
Easily record correspondence with contactsto provide a complete view of activity.
Access all CRM data through MicrosoftOutlook interface for ease of use.
Powerful reporting capabilities across thesystem provide access to significantbusiness insight across all disciplines.
Key facts
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135 private equity and financial services clients
7 offices in the UK including Channel Islands
Leading UK partner for Microsoft Dynamics GPand CRM
Turnover of £31m and over 250 employees
Gold Certified Microsoft Partner
Core offerings include:
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Back office applications
Front office applications
Fund management
Document management
Business intelligence
Hosting
Touchstone Group
A leading provider of financial and CRM solutions to theprivate equity sector
Technology advice
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Touchstone offers clients the latest advice ongetting the most out of existing technology. Thisincludes web deployment, balanced scorecards,KPIs, fund and management reports deliveredtimely and efficiently.
We have dedicated technical consultants withexpertise in the underlying Microsoft technologyand the business applications; plus a dedicatedintegration team to work alongside the productteams for specific system integration projects.
SharePoint functionality is standard across bothDynamics GP and CRM - our dedicatedSharePoint consultants are able to offerassistance in the development of these areas.
Our flexible approach to deployment allows bothDynamics GP and CRM to be implemented ashosted solutions or on-premise deployments.
Given the business critical nature of thesesolutions, Touchstone offer remote diagnosticsand disaster decovery plans, ensuring staff havethe highest level of availability at all times.
Services
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Touchstone has dedicated consultants in bothDynamics GP and Dynamics CRM forimplementing solutions within private equitycompanies. It is our aim for projects to beimplemented on time and on budget, whilstensuring the business objectives and benefits areidentified before the project starts. We measurethe success of any project against these agreedcriteria.
We achieve this by employing highly qualifiedconsultants, experienced in both products andsector who have addressed similar businessissues before. Having a qualified accountantwith an understanding of your requirements suchas management recharges or fund reporting ispivotal to delivering a successful solution.
All projects are overseen by qualified projectmanagers with the relevant application andtechnical consultants in the team who workalongside your project team. A provenimplementation methodology ensures projectsare successfully delivered from initiation to go-live, on time and on budget.
Contacts
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Dean Carroll
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Sales Director
t: +44 20 7121 4700
m: +44 7720 068242
www.touchstone.co.uk
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Andes Loukianos
Microsoft Dynamics GP Sales Director
t: +44 20 7121 4700
m: +44 7973 335454
About
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Baxon PE is the leader in portfolio managementsolutions for the private equity industry.
Our focus on portfolio management since 2005allows us to deliver the most flexible, deep andbroad solution for this specific need as well asthe most experienced consulting team.
Our client base is spread across the globe, withcustomers in the UK, Europe, USA, LatinAmerica, Middle East and India, and range insize from small to large private equity andventure capital firms.
The Baxon PE platform currently concentratesreporting information for more than 800companies worldwide with clients exceeding $80billion in assets under management.
Our solution
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Baxon Portfolio Company ManagementSystem (PCMS) enables any type of PrivateEquity firm to upgrade the way in which itmonitors, manages and reports the performanceof its portfolio companies.
Baxon PCMS is a web based application,delivered as a Software as a Service (SaaS),that automates the entire portfolio reportingprocess, improves consistency and transparency,and provides powerful analytic tools, turningstatic data into dynamic information, availablefrom anywhere at anytime.
How Baxon PCMS works
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Data capture
Portfolio companies can update their financialand operating information directly and in real timethrough a secure internet connection. Portfoliocompanies are not required to modify theircurrent reporting structure and the wholeupdating process is designed to be performed injust 5 to 10 minutes. Automatic reminders andapproval process workflows can be setup by GPsystem administrators.
Analysis and reporting
GP users can create dynamic dashboards andreports with key indicators, graphs, traffic lightsand alerts which can printed or exported to PDFor Excel, from anywhere, at anytime.
Excel spreadsheets can also be linked to theBaxon PCMS database, allowing fast creation ofad hoc reports and modelling.
Collaboration and distribution
Customizable profiles and levels of access allowGPs to share online reports, interactivescorecards and document libraries with externalstakeholders, such as LPs, banks, consultants orauditors.
Key facts
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Completely focused on portfolio managementsince 2005
100% web based – Software as a Service
30+ clients, 800+ companies
Clients in the UK, US, Europe, Middle East, LatinAmerica and India
Core services
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Financials, KPIs and covenants
Valuation
Database driven Excel integration.
Portfolio aggregation for analysis and reporting
Sensitivity analysis (“What if”)
Online integrated comparables
Baxon PE
Leader in portfolio management for the private equityindustry
Benefits
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Efficiency
Baxon PCMS streamlines the entire portfolioreporting process, from the gathering of datadirectly from portfolio companies, to printing,exporting and distributing reports in one click.
Data quality and transparency
The increasing need for transparency demands amore reliable and consistent source ofinformation from portfolio companies. BaxonPCMS offers specific features designed toincrease transparency in the reporting processand grant consistency of data.
Visibility of company performance
Leverage on our web based technology toprovide users with an interactive businessintelligence tool to create intuitive dashboards onthe fly, drill down on metrics and use dynamicgraphs to understand trends, as well as powerfulanalytic features.
Accessibility and collaboration
Access a timely single source of truth for allportfolio information, from anywhere at anytime,even from your mobile phone, and without theneed to install any software.
Key features
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Financials, KPIs, narrative, covenanttracking.
Valuations meeting FAS 157 and EVCAguidelines.
Integrated comparables online.
Aggregation for portfolio level reportingwith slice & dice capabilities.
File repository for archiving documentation.
Mobile platform to access key informationfrom BlackBerry, iPhone or othersmartphones.
Personal dashboards.
Complete traceability and audit trails.
Sensitivity analysis.
Live linked Excel.
Automatic reminder and approvalworkflows.
No need to install any software or add in toaccess or modify reports.
Audit trails.
Contacts
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Paula España
Director
t: +44 20 3286 6296
www.baxonpe.com
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Ian Kertzman
Account Manager
t: + 1 (214) 329 4261
About
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ClearMomentum is a leading edge analytics andreporting solution for Private Equity, Venture,Hedge and Mezzanine Funds in North Americaand the United Kingdom.
Leveraging the latest in technology, our securedata room is the global data clearinghouse forportfolio companies and their counterpartiesincluding lenders, investors and shareholders.
Every capital manager has unique analytic andreporting needs so each implementation istailored to meet those same needs precisely.While the SaaS infrastructure enables efficientset-up and seamless information flow, oursolution is configured according to your specificanalytic and reporting needs.
Reporting and the exchange of sensitive financialinformation between portfolio companies andtheir counterparties is our core competence andour core value proposition. ClearMomentumserves many of the world’s most progressivecapital managers and their portfolio companieslocated throughout North America and the UnitedKingdom.
See: www.clearmomentum.com
ClearFinancials® Solution
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ClearFinancials® is unique in that it benefits boththe capital provider as well as the portfoliocompany. Traditional models force portfoliocompanies into structured templates or rigid web-forms to collect monthly or quarterly financialdata. The ClearFinancials® secure data roomrequires ZERO change of the portfolio company’sprocess or structure ensuring that the exchangeoccurs seamlessly and is executed with minimalresistance. We recognize the importance of thecritical relationship that exists between portfoliocompanies and their capital partners and ourprocess and software is designed to protect theinterests of both. ClearFinancials® makes themonthly or quarterly exchange of financial andperformance data both smooth and painless.
This painless, however disciplined process isevidenced by the fact that the typical capitalmanager will reduce the overall fund reportingcycle by an average of 25 days.
In addition to the benefits realized by the capitalmanager, portfolio companies may choose toleverage a full suite of analytics, reporting,forecasting, budgeting or scorecard functionalitydesigned to enhance financial performance.Used in this way, ClearFinancials® becomes animportant value-add provided by the capitalmanager.
Key facts
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Founded in 2005
Operating US and United Kingdom
Three Deployment Options
99% Year over Year Customer Retention Rate
+90 % Average Reporting Cycle Reduction
~ 1,000 Portfolio Entities Reporting
Analytics and reporting for:
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Private Equity
Venture Capital
Hedge Funds
Mezzanine and Debt Providers
Portfolio Company – Full suite of CPM tools
ClearMomentum
Analytics and reporting for private equity, venture,hedge, mezzanine funds
ClearFinancials® Solution cont…
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ClearMomentum is your best choice to meet theincreasing demands for increased transparencyand regulatory agency reporting requirementsand compliance.
An exclusive relationship with a top-tier globalaccounting firm with a specific focus on PrivateEquity enables our two organizations to provideregulatory compliance consulting coupled with atechnology solution to ensure ongoing discipline.
Coupled with ClearMomentum analytics, asecond partnership with a global data providerenables ClearMomentum to provide a host ofbenchmarking and risk monitoring services.
Risk Management Metrics & Reporting
Risk Monitoring
Portfolio Risk Analysis
Covenant Monitoring
Sensitivity Analysis & Stress Testing
Compliance Testing
Modeling and forecasting functionality enablescapital managers to model add-on acquisitions,measure the impact of foreign currency orconsolidate disparate entities.
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Secure data exchange between Alternative Assetmanagers and their portfolio companies.
Secure Data Exchange
Excel® visualization and workflow
Dashboards and Scorecards
Comprehensive Analytics
Risk Analytics
GP and LP Reporting
In addition to the benefits realized by capitalmanagers, portfolio companies benefit when theychoose to leverage ClearFinancials® for theiroperation.
Sophisticated analytics, scorecarding, andbudgeting.
Standard and user-defined metrics, ratios fortrending, analysis, and reporting.
Flexible standard and custom reporting.
Excel® add-in for direct access toClearFinancials® data and ad-hoc reporting.
Data from various external sources can beintegrated for a consolidated view.
One source of data, always consistent,transparent and available on demand.
Contacts
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Jim Cannon
Senior VP, Sales
t: +1 585 393 1734 x205
m: +1 315 374 2330
www.clearmomentum.com
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Sean Socha
Senior VP, Customer Support
t: +1 585 393 1734 x203
m: +1 315 719 8808
About
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DDC offers Sonar, an investment monitoring andreporting platform for private equity firms. Sonaris designed to automate many of the manualtasks that consume partners’ or controllers’ time,making it easier for investment firms to manageportfolio documents and workflows. Sonarprovides reporting features and convenientreminder functions which save investors’ timeand afford them a deeper understanding oftheir overall portfolio.
Sonar provides a centralized, formatted placeto store documents pertaining to investmentsand grid views of key documents as needed.Sonar can also consolidate financials and trackboard packages, cap tables, and otherinformation.
Sonar also contains an LP communicationmodule which handles data flow between thefund and its investors and provides a brandedportal for the investor.
DDC also provides a complementary softwaresuite, called Radar, designed to be directly usedby the companies in the investment firm’sportfolio. The improved corporate governanceprescribed by Radar leads to easier exits andhigher returns for the portfolio companies.
Sonar Features
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Portfolio Company Management• Automates portfolio company data collection• Provides centralized, secure storage• Provides at-a-glance views across portfolio
companies• Provides consolidated financials views• Supports dashboard reporting and collection• Promotes cross-partner transparency• Improves view of investment activity• Manages workflow and automatically
generates chaser emails as needed.
LP Communications• Handles complex information distribution
needs• Provides a branded portal for investors to
access• Tracks documents distribution automatically.
Portfolio Company Data
The seamless flow of information betweenDDC products ensures that data deposited byportfolio companies into their accounts isavailable on an investment matrix view in Sonar.You can easily see the current reportingstatus across your portfolio.
Dashboard Reporting
SmartDash, which allows each company in aportfolio to report their activity via a dashboard.Sonar will then consolidate financials acrosscompanies.
Key facts
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Automates portfolio company data collection
Reduces administrative burden
Promotes cross-partner transparency
Improves view of investment activity
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Establishes tightened security and back-up
Enriches portfolio management
Provides significant value add to portfolio
Handles complex LP communication tasks
Document Depository Corp. (DDC)
Automated tools for private equity firms and theirportfolio companies
Radar Features
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Radar is a critical data management system usedby portfolio companies to:
• Organize, store and share a wide range ofinformation
• Manage corporate governanceresponsibilities, leading to increasedvaluation
• Handle board and committee membership,meetings and communications
• Track cap table evolution and option grants
Your Portfolio Standardized & Centralized
From Radar’s home screen, investors can seeevery company across their portfolio. The pre-defined filing structure makes it easy toretrieve key company information for cross-portfolio analysis and inter-partnertransparency. Their portfolio companies canalso use Radar as a secure repository of allcritical documents, from option grants tooperation leases. This helps them improveorganization and governance and makes futurefunding rounds and exits easier.
Radar provides “Key Document Insurance” whichprotects investments in the event of managementchanges and other business transformations.
Other initiatives
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Sonar Plus – Outsource the Hassle
DDC understands that it is not always possible tokeep up with the administrative side of portfoliomanagement. That is why DDC offers SonarPlus. A Sonar Plus subscription outsources theupload and maintenance of portfolio companyinformation by one of DDC’s in-house experts.Simply send documents to DDC via email andthey take care of the rest.
DDC also offers Radar Plus, allowing portfoliocompanies to focus on their core business.
Services
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Sonar – Secure, cloud-based solution foralternative investment managers
Sonar Plus – Service bureau management withadministrative tasks outsourced to DDC
Radar – Secure, cloud-based solution forinvestment-backed companies
Radar Plus – Service bureau management withadministrative tasks outsourced to DDC.
Contacts
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Rebecca Holloway
Director of Marketing
t: 1 (800) 872-9394 x20
www.docdep.com
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Farid Naib
Founder/CEO
t: 1 (800) 872-9394 x10
About
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iLevel Solutions is a technology spin-out fromThe Blackstone Group. iLevel was formed inresponse to a strong market and an increasingregulatory demand for clear, consistent andtimely reporting of investment data. Our missionis to provide the seamless platform thatintegrates all information for General Partnersand Limited Partners to monitor investments,prepare and report valuations, and exchangeinformation. This platform will serve as thebackbone to completely integrate reporting,analytical tools, and dynamic information sharing,and includes components for private equity, realestate, debt, and LP reporting.
Our flagship offering, the Portfolio CompanyReporting System (PCRS) for Private Equitywas initially developed and field tested by TheBlackstone Group. All facets of the platform arecontinually improved upon according to industrybest practices and the demands of investors,general partners and portfolio companiesthemselves. Our innovative, highly secureSoftware as a Service (SaaS) technologyplatform facilitates the collection, analysis, andreporting of portfolio company data, bur requiresno capital expense for infrastructure or additionaltechnical staff. The collaborative end-to-endsolution automates data collection, aggregationand management, saving time and valuablehuman resources.
Our solution
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iLevel’s Portfolio Company Reporting System(PCRS) for Private Equity is an application thatenables firms to gauge the financial health of thecompanies in their portfolios on a monthly,quarterly and annual basis. The web-basedsolution automates the workflow of obtaining,analyzing, and reporting financial and operatingmetrics of portfolio companies. It also enablesfirms to identify trends through company data,compile valuation information for investors andstandardize the company reporting process.
Solution functionality
Data collection
Portfolio company data collection is among thebiggest challenges faced in private equity – anefficiency hurdle that PCRS removes.
PCRS automates and streamlines the collectionof financial and operating metrics from portfoliocompanies, enabling firms to establish a datacollection and reporting discipline, directlyresulting in enhanced data integrity andauditability.
Highly-configurable, industry-standard Exceltemplates allow for ease and flexibility of datacollection for use within PCRS and otherworkbooks.
Key facts
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Technology spin-out of The Blackstone Group
Software as a Service (SaaS) technologyplatform
To arrange a demo:
+1 646 746 1100
Core services
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Portfolio performance analysis and reportingsolutions for:
Private equity
Real estate
LP reporting
iLevel Solutions
A leading provider of private equity softwareand reporting solutions
Our solution cont…
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Collaboration
Access and management of information issimplified through Database-driven Excelintegration, leveraging industry standard toolsthroughout the system.
Data changes are synchronized with PCRS’Integrated Workflow and Notification Engine.The data collection status for each portfoliocompany is displayed and emails sent whenworkflow rules are triggered.
Real-time Alerts provide timely detection andimmediate notification of portfolio companyperformance issues that require attention.
The Document Library manages and catalogsdocuments associated with each investment.
Analysis and reporting
PCRS makes meeting valuation requirementspainless. Take advantage of Best Practicesreporting templates, automation of key inputs,and extensive process management to quicklyand easily value your investments.
Highly configurable Graphs and Charts enableprivate equity professionals to identify trends at aglance and drill down into data sets to facilitatetimely, well-informed decision making.
Integrated Excel-based Dashboards delivercomprehensive analysis & reporting, leveragingthe financial and operating metrics of portfoliocompanies.
Solution benefits
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The PCRS platform delivers immediate andpowerful benefits – from establishing a datacollection and reporting discipline to providing aplatform for firms to identify trends, compilevaluation information, and standardize theportfolio company reporting process. Gain speedand efficiency from a comprehensive portfolioinformation management solution.
Business benefits
Access to timely, accurate information todrive critical investment decisions.
Instantaneous identification of trends anddata anomalies.
Flexibility in comparing portfolio investmentswith external corporate data.
Secure collaboration between private equityfirms and portfolio companies.
Ability to enhance speed and quality ofcommunications with limited partners.
Operational benefits
Configurable Financial Dashboards plus abroad range of reporting/analysis options.
Increased efficiency in collecting, storing andaccessing vital information.
Ability to set data parameters, key businessindicators and action alerts.
Enhanced integrity and auditability of data.
Database-driven Excel integration at allpoints of communication.
Contacts
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Hank Boggio
Chief Marketing Officer
t: New York: +1 646 746 1103
www.ilevelsolutions.com
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iLevel Solutions
345 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10154 USA
t: New York: +1 646 746 1100
About
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Augentius is an award winning specialist PrivateEquity and Property Fund administrator.Currently administering funds on behalf of morethan 70 investment managers in the UK,Guernsey, Jersey, Luxembourg, USA, Cayman,BVI, Mauritius, Singapore and Hong Kong,
Renowned for the delivery of a high quality, tailormade service (with a SAS 70, Type II opinion), allAugentius’ clients are serviced by fully qualifiedaccountants,
Utilising Sungard Investran™ and with a highlevel of automation throughout all processes,clients are assured that their accounting teamdelivers a quality service at all times. Clients areprovided with remote access to their accountingdata.
With over 150 staff across its’ different officesAugentius is a truly global player – whilst at thesame time providing a service dedicated to yourindividual needs.
Industry Recognition_______________________________________ Private Equity Fund Administrator of the Year
2008, 2009 and 2010 – Private Equity News Top Rated Private Equity Fund Administrator
in London 2008, 2009 and 2010 – GlobalCustodian
Top Rated Private Equity Fund Administratorin the Channel Islands 2010. Commended in2009 – Global Custodian.
Services
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Working in close partnership with the PrivateEquity/Real Estate fund communities we are thepillar of their back-office support infrastructure –a key link in their value chain:
Product specialisation - We only servicePrivate Equity, Real Estate and Funds of Funds.
Accessibility - Operational centres in Londonand New York with offshore administration fromChannel Islands, Luxembourg and Mauritius.
Professional expertise - Clients are ONLYserviced by fully qualified accountants.
Tailored service - All reporting and proceduresare determined by individual client needs withremote access to data for both GPs and LPs.
Efficiency, security and best of breed - “Stateof the Art” technology (SunGard Investran™) andEuropean beta tester
No suprises - Fixed administration fees.
What we do
_______________________________________ Assistance on Fund establishment, including
liaison with legal counsel, regulators andplacement agents
Review of Limited Partnership Agreementfrom an operational point of view
Design and tailoring of call letters, accountsand investment reports to meet individualG.P. and L.P. requirements
Key facts
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150+ people
70+ investement managers
4000 investors serviced
10 offices around the world
$70bn funds in administration
Core services
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Buy Out Infrastrucure
Fund of Funds Mezzanine
Development Capital Venture Capital
Secondaries GP, LLP, Carry and SPVvehicles
Augentius
Fund Administration …Tailor-Made to Meet Your Needs
What we do cont…
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Assistance with Investor Due Diligence onthe Fund’s Administration and Processes
Know-Your-Customer and Anti-Money-Laundering checks on L.P.s (where required)
Development of Service Level Agreement tofacilitate future Key Performance Indicator(KPI) reporting
Maintenance of all accounting/financialrecords
Generation and distribution of all call lettersand monitoring for receipt of cash
Payment of all expenses
Calculation and payment of all managementfees
Modeling and systemisation of carry
Calculation and payment of all distributions
Preparation of annual accounts
Calculation of IRRs (Fund, Investment andInvestor) and other performance metrics
Management of audit process and productionof annual financial statements
Collection of data, from portfolio companies,at regular intervals and reporting
Production and distribution of monthly,quarterly and annual reports to L.P.s asrequired
Issue Manager Reports and “mailshots”
Reporting to the G.P. as required
Dealing with Investor queries
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Dissemination of data for tax reporting(including US tax reporting)
Secure web access for all GP and LPreporting
Augentius also administers all the relevantCarry, Founder Partner and Co-Investmentvehicles as required by the structure,providing a complete service.
Our Commitment to Partnership
_______________________________________A dedicated team – a named and dedicatedteam of professional administrators will beresponsible for all aspects of the administrationof your fund.Agreed service standards – we will agree abespoke working document with you that we flexwith the clients needs over time.Key performance indicators – we monitor theperformance of all planned workloads againstagreed standards and report on performance.A close working relationship – our senior staffwill regularly want to discuss service standardswith you and will seek to optimise best workingpractices.Feedback – we seek client feedback, ourbusiness prospers and develops as a result ofbeing in concert with clients needs.Technical assistance - we will always provideadvice on industry best practice and keep youadvised of changes.
Contacts
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Roxane Combe
Business Development Director
t: +44 20 7397 5483
www.augentius.com
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Hugh Stacey
Business Development Director
t: +44 20 7397 5489
About the Aztec Group
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At the Aztec Group we believe that theperformance of every party involved in managinga fund is instrumental in determining its successor failure and that choosing the rightadministrator is a key, but often overlooked,ingredient to ensuring that success.
We are a boutique fund administration businessemploying over 90 staff with offices in Guernsey,Jersey, Luxembourg and the United Kingdom.With over 50 funds and approximately US$30bnunder administration we have established anenviable track record when it comes to servicedelivery.
As an independent owner-managed business weare focused purely on the needs of our clientsand their investors.
Funds
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We manage a diverse range of fund structuresincluding:
Private Equity
Venture Capital
Real Estate
Listed Companies
Investment Companies
The Aztec Group is regulated to provide fund administrationservices in each of the jurisdictions in which it operates. Formore information please visit www.aztecgroup.co.uk/legals
How do we deliver?
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The key to delivering first-class fundadministration is the simplicity and clarity of ourbusiness model:
Our attitude is open - we are an independentowner-managed business with a vested interestin getting the best out of our relationships anddriving forwards the standards of fundadministration. We are geared to delivering aflexible, tailored approach to service as opposedto a one size fits all model.
We are focused on what you need - ourstrategy is to focus exclusively on theadministration of complex fund structures. Wesupport our client’s objectives, imparting ourdeep and strategic understanding of the fundadministration industry.
Our people are your people - we work hard tomaintain a stable and skilled workforce and toprovide each of our clients with a dedicated andhighly experienced team. In addition toknowledgeable administrators and accountants,we have our own legal, compliance and treasuryspecialist available to support you every step ofthe way.
Our technology is leading edge - ourtechnology platform provides transparency ofdata from administrator through to GP andbeyond. It has the capacity to manage high levelsof fund data and delivers tailored reporting.
Key facts – feel free to benchmark us!
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100% client retention rate
93% staff retention rate
94% staff qualified or in training
$30bn/50 funds under administration
AAF 01/06 Accredited
What we deliver
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Professional investor communications
+ knowledgeable stable client teams
+ accredited control framework
+ accurate and timely reporting
= Investor confidence
Aztec Group
A leading independent fund administrator with a 100%client retention rate, delivering a true partnershipapproach to business
Our technology
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The Aztec Group has spent a great deal of timeand investment in creating a unique IT system tosupport our clients' administration requirements.
Our use of these systems provides the utmost inefficient and seamless fund administration and isunderpinned by our independently auditedControl Framework (AAF Accredited) whichensures integrity of data and all governancerequirements are met.
At the core of our platform is FrontInvest.eFront's FrontInvest is one of Europe's leadingfund administration systems and enables front,middle and back office operations around asingle integrated software platform.
Our advanced real-time system interface isaccessible by our clients 24/7 via secure webaccess.
These technologies, embedded within ourintegrated framework, have enabled the followingkey deliverables:
Intelligent core platform tailored to the fund'sfront, middle and back office requirements
Powerful reporting and direct communicationfunctionality
Advanced real-time portal technology for allkey stakeholders
Our dedicated in-house Financial Systems team,which includes qualified accountants, acts as thepeople interface for our clients' reporting andsystem requirements.
Testimonials
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It is a fact that most of our new business is wonoff the back of hard-earned word-of-mouthrecommendations from our existing clients whocontinue to be strong advocates of the way wedo business and the service we deliver. But don’tjust take our word for it – we challenge you tospeak to our clients and to hear what they sayabout our track record!
“ Aztec go ‘above and beyond’ to deliver,assisting us on tight deadline deal closings and
being responsive and flexible to our wide-rangingoffshore needs. They have a clear understanding
of our business and our intermediate portfoliocompany structures. We always feel that we are
a priority client for them”Janet Dunlop, COO, Lion Capital LLP
“We chose Aztec Group because of theirexcellent understanding and tailored approach to
first time funds.”Tore Rynning-Nielsen, Partner,
Herkules Capital
“Investors are the lifeblood of our business. TheAztec Group has taken this important factor into
the delivery of their first-class administrationservice, addressing not just our needs as a fund
promoter and advisor, but also the complexrequirements of our investors.”
Inge Larson, Investment Director/CFO,Norvestor Equity AS
Contacts
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James Duffield
Head of Business Development
t: +44 845 50 55 620
m: +44 7584 232 165
www.aztecgroup.co.uk
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Edward Moore
CEO
t: +44 1534 833027
About
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Since 1995, FLSV has been servicing privateequity, real estate, hedge funds and venturecapital firms and understands the complexitiesinherent in the asset class. FLSV servicesapproximately 45 such clients with over $25billion of committed capital across 256 fundentities.
Management
FLSV Fund Administration Services (“FAS”) isled by Jeffrey Hahn, former CFO of MorganStanley’s private equity, venture capital andinfrastructure businesses. Jeff is joined byBrenda Grayson, COO of the business. Jeff andBrenda have worked together for over 18 yearswith a proven track record. FAS is furthersupported by Charles Vallone and Alan Frankelwho lead the business tax services, both formerlyfrom E&Y.
Our solution
FAS provides a cost-effective alternative to in-house administration for partnerships from pre-launch to investing through the liquidationphases. FLSV’s objective is to be a transparentextension of each client’s finance organizationbringing large-firm experience and sophisticationwith personalized service.
Service description
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Start-up & Pre-launch
Triangulate with client /counsel - fundstructures, term sheets, and LPA’s
Support LP due diligence requests
Fund and Partner Accounting
Prepare fund financial statements
Partner capital balances, cash flows, IRR’s
Complex waterfall calculations
General partner and carry plan accounting
Tax Compliance and Advisory
Tax planning (Fund, GP, Management Co.)
Federal and State reporting
Portfolio Accounting
Portfolio transactions (purchases, sales)
Track fund manager activity for fund of funds
Investment structures (hold co’s, blockers)
Track portfolio company IRR's
Operations and Cash Management
Allocate capital calls and distributions
Facilitate cash movements and forecasting
Set up bank and brokerage accounts
Investor Services
Client branded portal for investor
Contacts, tax data, wire information, etc.
Clients
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Large Financial Institutions
Private Equity Fund Managers
Distressed Debt Fund Managers
Financial Advisory Firms and Family Trusts
Fund Managers and Fund of Funds
Core services
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Start-up & Pre-launch
Fund and Partner Accounting
Tax Compliance and Advisory
Portfolio Accounting
Operations and Cash Management
Investor Services
FLSV Fund Administration Services
Independent Fund Administration Firm led byJeffrey Hahn, former-CFO of Morgan Stanley’sPrivate Equity and Infrastructure Funds
Management team
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Jeffrey Hahn, MBA, CPA, Partner in charge
Prior to FLSV, Jeffrey was at Morgan Stanley for18 years supporting its private equity business.
From 2004 though mid 2009, Jeffrey was theChief Financial Officer of the MS Private Equity,Venture Capital and Infrastructure businesses.
As CFO, Jeffrey was responsible for fundservices from pre-launch and fund start upthrough its investing and liquidation phases.Prior to 2004, Jeffrey was Morgan Stanley’sprivate equity controller and spent 8 years as anauditor at Coopers & Lybrand.
Brenda Grayson, CPA, COO
Prior to FLSV, Brenda was at Morgan Stanley for17 years, supporting its private equity business.
Brenda was responsible for the fundadministration software platform, internalcontrols, and staffing spanning across 7 privateequity product lines, $12 billion in committedcapital, 100’s of partnership entities with 5,000investors and 7,000 contacts.
Prior to MS, Brenda spent 2 years as an auditorat Ernst & Young.
Senior Team (Selected)
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FLSV offers a team approach to its servicemodel. Each team is assigned specific clientsresponsible for providing all services.
Lori Joseph, CPA, Executive Director
Lori has 12 years of accounting and fundadministration experience. Prior to joining FLSV,Lori worked at Morgan Stanley for 10 years ashead controller for its venture capital and fund offunds businesses. Lori’s prior relevantexperience includes working at Credit Suisse andArthur Andersen.
Christina Ding, CPA, Executive DirectorChristina has 14 years of accounting and fundadministration experience. Prior to joining FLSV,Christina worked at Morgan Stanley for 4 yearsas head controller responsible for private equityfunds. Prior to that, Christina worked at Geller,BISYS and AMEX Tax and Business Services.
Gulsey Torenli, Vice President
Gulsey has over 14 years of financial services,private equity and real estate experience. Prior tojoining FLSV FAS, Gulsey worked at SS&C FundServices /Geller, and has relevant tax experiencefrom D&T.
Contacts
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Jeffrey Hahn
Partner in charge
t: +1 212 607 5905
www.flsv.com
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Brenda Grayson
Chief Operating Officer
t: +1 212 607 5915
About us
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Ipes is a multiple award winning provider ofprivate equity fund services.
Our team of 130 professionals administers+$40bn assets for over 90 clients from fullservice offices in London, Luxembourg, Jerseyand Guernsey.
Established in 1998, Ipes pioneered a specialistapproach to fund services giving us one of thelongest track records in the business. Clientsbenefit from the collective expertise of our peopleand our senior client-facing team have onaverage 18 years industry experience each.
Our Clients tell us they like our approach andover 90% of new mandates are referral based.
Ipes is ranked sixth globally based on PrivateEquity assets under administration by ICFAmagazine and second in Guernsey by LipperFitzrovia.
Credentials
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Ipes is the winner of several industry awards,including: Corporate INTL Global Awards - Investment
Funds Advisory Firm 2010 Private Equity Awards - Specialist
Professional Services Firm 2010 EVCJ Awards - Administrator of the Year
2009.
Services
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Ipes offers a comprehensive range ofadministration and outsourcing services,including:
Fund Administration
Outsourcing
Banking
Listed Funds (including CISX, AIM, LSE andSFM).
We can support a broad range of structuresacross the closed-ended asset class, including:
Private equity funds structured as limitedpartnerships and companies.
Management and general partner entitiesand special purpose vehicles associated withprivate equity funds.
Investment holding companies formed in anyreputable jurisdiction (including Cyprus, BVI,Madeira, Cayman Islands, Singapore,Canada and Bermuda).
Carried interest structures, trusts, co-investment schemes.
Listed and unlisted entities.
With over 12 years industry experience, we havedeveloped best practice and processes, whichcan be tailored to each client’s needs.
Key facts
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130 people
90+ clients
300 funds
5,000 investors
$40bn assets under administration
Who we work with
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Buyout funds
Fund of funds
Mezzanine funds
Secondaries funds
Real estate funds
Venture capital funds
Ipes
Leading European provider of private equityfund administration and outsourcing services
What sets us apart?
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Industry-leading track record - Ipes pioneereda specialist approach to Private Equity fundservices. Our business began in Guernsey in1998, a full seven years ahead of the industryaverage for independent administrators. Wehave one of the longest track records in thebusiness.
Expert team - We have invested heavily in thedevelopment of our team and more than 80% ofour people are qualified or part-qualified.
Tried and tested approach - Our client facingactivities are underpinned by over 170 detailedprocess maps, which drive consistently highstandards.
Real substance in each location - Ipes is amulti-jurisdictional team, with offices in fourEuropean locations. We are unique in that eachof our locations is run as a full service operation,staffed by Ipes people, working to Ipes processmaps and using Ipes technology. We have madea strategic decision to establish full serviceoffices in each of our operational locations. Ourclients value knowing that their work is beingcarried out at that physical location by an accountteam they know and trust.
Technology - We use an industry-leadingFramework platform and complement it with abespoke web-based portal. This tool enables ourclients to view their accounting data, bankaccounts, and other key information online and inreal-time.
Further, as we built the platform, we can offer ourclients full flexibility in the design and delivery oftheir reports.
Our locations
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London – Ipes UK commenced operation in2006. The office provides a full range ofadministrative and outsourcing services to privateequity funds.
Luxembourg – Ipes (Luxembourg) S.A., wasestablished in 2009. It provides centraladministration services to SIFs, SICARs andunregulated fund structures such as SOPARFIs.
Jersey – Ipes Jersey was established in 2008. Itprovides a full range of administrative andoutsourcing services for private equity funds.
Guernsey – The Ipes group was founded inGuernsey in 1998. The Guernsey officecontinues to provide a complete range ofadministrative and outsourcing services for ourdiverse client base.
Regulation
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Ipes is regulated in each of the jurisdictions inwhich it operates.
For more information, please see our website,www.ipes.com.
Contacts
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Justin Partington
Commercial Director
t: +44 20 7798 0918
www.ipes.com
_______________________________________
Tabatha Fenn
Head of Marketing
t: +44 1481 735 830
What sets us apart?
_______________________________________
Industry-leading track record - Ipes pioneereda specialist approach to Private Equity fundservices. Our business began in Guernsey in1998, a full seven years ahead of the industryaverage for independent administrators. Wehave one of the longest track records in thebusiness.
Expert team - We have invested heavily in thedevelopment of our team and more than 80% ofour people are qualified or part-qualified.
Tried and tested approach - Our client facingactivities are underpinned by over 170 detailedprocess maps, which drive consistently highstandards.
Real substance in each location - Ipes is amulti-jurisdictional team, with offices in fourEuropean locations. We are unique in that eachof our locations is run as a full service operation,staffed by Ipes people, working to Ipes processmaps and using Ipes technology. We have madea strategic decision to establish full serviceoffices in each of our operational locations. Ourclients value knowing that their work is beingcarried out at that physical location by an accountteam they know and trust.
Technology - We use an industry-leadingFramework platform and complement it with abespoke web-based portal. This tool enables ourclients to view their accounting data, bankaccounts, and other key information online and inreal-time.
Further, as we built the platform, we can offer ourclients full flexibility in the design and delivery oftheir reports.
Our locations
_______________________________________
London – Ipes UK commenced operation in2006. The office provides a full range ofadministrative and outsourcing services to privateequity funds.
Luxembourg – Ipes (Luxembourg) S.A., wasestablished in 2009. It provides centraladministration services to SIFs, SICARs andunregulated fund structures such as SOPARFIs.
Jersey – Ipes Jersey was established in 2008. Itprovides a full range of administrative andoutsourcing services for private equity funds.
Guernsey – The Ipes group was founded inGuernsey in 1998. The Guernsey officecontinues to provide a complete range ofadministrative and outsourcing services for ourdiverse client base.
Regulation
_______________________________________
Ipes is regulated in each of the jurisdictions inwhich it operates.
For more information, please see our website,www.ipes.com.
Contacts
_______________________________________
Justin Partington
Commercial Director
t: +44 20 7798 0918
www.ipes.com
_______________________________________
Tabatha Fenn
Head of Marketing
t: +44 1481 735 830
What sets us apart?
_______________________________________
Industry-leading track record - Ipes pioneereda specialist approach to Private Equity fundservices. Our business began in Guernsey in1998, a full seven years ahead of the industryaverage for independent administrators. Wehave one of the longest track records in thebusiness.
Expert team - We have invested heavily in thedevelopment of our team and more than 80% ofour people are qualified or part-qualified.
Tried and tested approach - Our client facingactivities are underpinned by over 170 detailedprocess maps, which drive consistently highstandards.
Real substance in each location - Ipes is amulti-jurisdictional team, with offices in fourEuropean locations. We are unique in that eachof our locations is run as a full service operation,staffed by Ipes people, working to Ipes processmaps and using Ipes technology. We have madea strategic decision to establish full serviceoffices in each of our operational locations. Ourclients value knowing that their work is beingcarried out at that physical location by an accountteam they know and trust.
Technology - We use an industry-leadingFramework platform and complement it with abespoke web-based portal. This tool enables ourclients to view their accounting data, bankaccounts, and other key information online and inreal-time.
Further, as we built the platform, we can offer ourclients full flexibility in the design and delivery oftheir reports.
Our locations
_______________________________________
London – Ipes UK commenced operation in2006. The office provides a full range ofadministrative and outsourcing services to privateequity funds.
Luxembourg – Ipes (Luxembourg) S.A., wasestablished in 2009. It provides centraladministration services to SIFs, SICARs andunregulated fund structures such as SOPARFIs.
Jersey – Ipes Jersey was established in 2008. Itprovides a full range of administrative andoutsourcing services for private equity funds.
Guernsey – The Ipes group was founded inGuernsey in 1998. The Guernsey officecontinues to provide a complete range ofadministrative and outsourcing services for ourdiverse client base.
Regulation
_______________________________________
Ipes is regulated in each of the jurisdictions inwhich it operates.
For more information, please see our website,www.ipes.com.
Contacts
_______________________________________
Justin Partington
Commercial Director
t: +44 20 7798 0918
www.ipes.com
_______________________________________
Tabatha Fenn
Head of Marketing
t: +44 1481 735 830
What sets us apart?
_______________________________________
Industry experience - We have a strongunderstanding of the ever changing legislativeand regulatory environment in which our clientsoperate, having worked in the industry since1998.
People - We have invested heavily in thedevelopment of our team and more than 80% ofour people are qualified or part-qualified.
Best practice approach - Our client facingactivities are underpinned by over 170 detailedprocess maps, which drive consistently highstandards.
Substance - Ipes is a multi-jurisdictional team,with offices in four European locations. We areunique in that each of our locations is run as afull service operation, staffed by Ipes people,working to Ipes process maps and using Ipestechnology. In our view, we cannot rely uponthird party name plate operations or joint venturearrangements to deliver the consistently highlevels of service our clients expect.
Specialist Technology - We use an industryleading platform which we supplement with ourown proprietary technology. We are able to offerworkflow tracking and reporting software, aunique SWIFT interface and a purpose-built web-portal.
Our locations
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London – Ipes UK commenced operation in2006. The office provides a full range ofadministrative and outsourcing services to privateequity funds.
Luxembourg – Ipes (Luxembourg) S.A., wasestablished in 2009. It provides centraladministration services to SIFs, SICARs andunregulated fund structures such as SOPARFIs.
Jersey – Ipes Jersey was established in 2008. Itprovides a full range of administrative andoutsourcing services for private equity funds.
Guernsey – The Ipes group was founded inGuernsey in 1998. The Guernsey officecontinues to provide a complete range ofadministrative and outsourcing services for ourdiverse client base.
Regulation
_______________________________________
Ipes is regulated in each of the jurisdictions inwhich it operates.
For more information, please see our website,www.ipes.com.
Contacts
_______________________________________
Justin Partington
Commercial Director
t: +44 20 7798 0918
www.ipes.com
_______________________________________
Tabatha Fenn
Marketing Manager
t: +44 1481 735 830
About
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SS&C is the leading provider of fundadministration services and software solutions forthe alternative investment community.
SS&C’s private equity fund administrationservices include client implementation, fund andpartnership accounting, capital call/distributionmanagement, investor tracking and investorrelations support, tax support, management andfinancial reporting and waterfall administration.
SS&C’s TNR Solution™ provides the privateequity industry with core general ledger andaccounting tools as well as advanced CRM, dealtracking and portfolio management capabilities.
Clients
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SS&C clients include:
Buyout
Venture and corporate VCs
Fund of funds
Hedge funds
Institutional investors (LPs)
Family offices
Real estate
Mezzanine funds
Placement agents
Advisors and service providers
Services
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SS&C’s Fund Administration services allowclients to choose the services they need and theirpreferred method of delivery. Service ismaximised by designating an experienced teamof professionals to each client to ensure all needsare met and exceeded. Our team approachguarantees clear communication among allSS&C resources, providing each client with thehighest level of customized technology andservice.
Accounting Services
Investment and general ledger transactions
Financial statements and capital accountstatements
Capital calls and distributions
Investor allocations, including waterfallcalculations
Investment valuations and underlying fundreports
Prepare performance calculations
Coordinate annual audit of the funds.
Administrative Services
Maintain investor databases and performannual mailing to update all information
Perform all follow-up required for defaultinginvestors
Scan all documentation for management anddisaster recovery purposes
• Process all investor mailings, capital
Key facts
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1,350+ employees
5,000+ clients
26 offices around the world
$180+bn assets under administration
SS&C fund administration services
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Client implementation services
Fund and partnership accounting
Capital call/distribution management
Investor tracking and investor relations support
Tax support services
Management and financial reporting
SS&C Fund Services
Leading provider of fund administration services andadvanced software solutions for the private equityindustry
Services cont…
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Process all investor mailings, capital calls,distributions, tax estimates and K-1s
Setup and maintain online general andinvestor-specific reporting.
Treasury Services
Open and administer bank accounts
Prepare bank and stock reconciliations
Track distributions and proceeds
Process wire transfers and distributionchecks
Purchase foreign currency and performforeign currency transactions
Arrange for safeguarding of securities.
Tax Services
Prepare all necessary entity tax filings andK-1s
Provide quarterly and year-end tax estimates
Reconcile GAAP and tax reporting
Obtain and maintain W-8BEN, W-9 andW-8IMY forms, as appropriate.
Fund administration highlights
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Top 10 global fund administrator ($AUA)
Highly experienced and knowledgeable staff
500+ fund accounting professionals
High staff retention
Ability to independently value all securitytypes including derivatives
SAS 70 Type II certified
Strong and scalable processing infrastructureand processing systems
Many notable clients (strong references) witha broad exposure to all security types,strategies and fund structures
Multiple processing centers with physicalexpansion capabilities and ability to recruitqualified staff
Multiple software and services options –SaaS, in-house or full outsourcing (BPO).
Client testimonial
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“The client service we receive from your teamhas been outstanding. When our managinggeneral partner has a question, I know I canquickly get the correct answer from my SS&Cteam, they are very responsive and we are veryconfident that our administrative needs are beinghandled. It is going to be our pleasure tocontinue working with your team on our newfund.” Horizon Asset Management
Contacts
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Fred Jacobs
Managing Director, Global Sales
t: +1 646 213 7104
www.ssctech.com
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Andrew Sexton
Managing Director, EMEA Sales
t: +44 20 3036 6800
About
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With more than $600 billion in assets underadministration and over 3,100 employeesexclusively focused on alternative assetservicing, State Street ranks as the No. 1servicer of alternative assets globally. Weprovide a complete suite of fund accounting, fundadministration, corporate administration, risk andcredit services to more than 900 clients, includinginstitutional investors, hedge fund, private equityfund and real estate fund managers. OurAlternative Investment Solutions (AIS) team hasmore than 20 years’ experience working withleading alpha-generated funds, and combinesextensive product expertise with flexible andinnovative solutions specifically designed foralternative investments.
Dedicated to meeting the mostdemanding needs
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State Street’s AIS clients are among the mostrespected names in the marketplace. Ourapproach is to collaborate with you so that wecan function as an extension of your internaloperations. In many cases, our executive andsenior management become actively engaged inthe client relationship, and participate in ongoingdialogue at all levels to ensure that wecontinually meet your most rigorous standards.In short, no one is better positioned – or moredriven to help you succeed – than State Street.
Private Equity Fund Services
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Outsourcing the responsibility for private equityfund administration to our AIS professionals letsyou focus on managing investment returns andgenerating value for your investors. Our clientsrange from small boutiques to some of theworld’s largest financial institutions, and arelocated throughout North America, Europe, Asiaand the Gulf region.
Whether your fund or family of funds is startingup, active and expanding, or winding down andliquidating, our team can solve the challenges ofeach specific situation. We offer options forevery fund type and structure, at every stage ofthe fund life cycle. Across the private equityspectrum - venture, buyout, mezzanine,distressed debt and more - we leverage ourglobal locations to create a solution that fits eachprivate equity manager’s needs.
As the world’s largest private equity fundadministrator, State Street services more than$230 billion in private equity capitalcommitments.
Our offices are strategically based in keyjurisdictions so that we can coordinate effectiveadministration for your funds — wherever theyare based.
Contacts
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Iain Stokes
t: +44 1481 715601
_______________________________________
Stephen Lewis
t: +44 20 3395 4984
State Street AIS
We possess the resources and expertise to meet your mostdemanding alternative asset servicing requirements
Our specialist venture, buyout and mezzaninefund administration teams are on hand tohelp
We can provide highly skilled and knowledgeableresources to all administrative workflows.
Give you access to the industry best practices wehave developed through the size and scope ofour business.
Complement traditional fund administrationfunctions with our treasury department.
Our direct fund administration services:
Full fund accounting and financial reportingservices.
Reviewing all investment documents andmaintaining detailed records of all investmenttransactions.
Calculating equalization payments, managementfees, preferred return, carried interest and IRRsin accordance with the fund agreements.
Maintaining the limited partner register andtransfer of interests as required.
Rollover of bridge line in accordance with theleverage facility agreement.
Coordinating any regulatory filings andsupervision of the audit process.
Coordinating independent tax review, includingpreparation of detailed tax schedules/worksheetsto reconcile book to tax accounting.
Full coordination and dissemination of investorcommunications.
Mourant International FinanceAdministration
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One example of how State Street AIS is meetingthe challenges posed by our clients is throughthe recent acquisition of Mourant InternationalFinance Administration (MIFA) in April 2010.
Our dedicated team of private equityprofessionals is now well positioned to deliver atruly world-class offering for private equity fundsponsors with teams of more than 900professionals focused solely on private equityadministration from locations in North America,Europe and Asia.
Based on industry survey data State Street AISnow ranks as No. 1 in alternative asset servicingglobally; No. 1 in private equity servicing globally;No. 2 in real estate asset servicing globally andNo. 2 in hedge fund servicing globally.
Awards
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European Private Equity Fund Administrator ofthe Year 2010, ICFA
Private Equity Administrator of the Year, ASPA.
Global Private Equity Fund Administrator of theYear 2009, ICFA.
European Private Equity Fund Administrator ofthe Year 2009, ICFA.
European offshore Fund Administrator of theYear 2009, ICFA.
Contacts
_______________________________________
Ned Siegel
t: +1 617 664 7618
www.statestreet.com
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Tim Mann
t: +1 852 3153 1001
About
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IntraLinks (NYSE: IL) is a leading global providerof Software-as-a-Service solutions for securelymanaging content, exchanging critical businessinformation and collaborating within and amongorganizations. More than 1 million professionalsin industries including financial services,pharmaceutical, biotechnology, consumer,energy, industrial, legal, insurance, real estateand technology, as well as government agencies,have utilized IntraLinks' easy-to-use, cloud-basedsolutions. IntraLinks users can accelerateinformation-intensive business processes andworkflows, meet regulatory and risk managementrequirements and collaborate with customers,partners and counterparties in a secure,auditable and compliant manner. Professionals atmore than 800 of the Fortune 1000 companieshave used IntraLinks’ solutions.
Whether raising a new fund, reporting on anexisting one, assessing potential acquisitions orpreparing for exit opportunities, IntraLinksExchanges offer a simpler, more secure way toexchange critical information. IntraLinks can helpimprove operational efficiency and reduce timeand costs while adding increased security andcontrol to your processes.
IntraLinks also provides 24/7/365 globalcustomer support, so you have a team ofexperienced professionals ready to assist you,your prospective investors and your outsideadvisors.
Clients and services
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In the alternative investments space, IntraLinks’350 clients and 53,000 permissioned users relyon IntraLinks, including:
14 of the 15 largest private equity firms.
5 of the 10 largest VC firms.
7 of the largest funds to close in 2010.
Individuals at 68 of the 75 largest institutionalinvestors.
Fundraising
Securely distribute PPM and conduct duediligence more rapidly. Manage legal documentsand partnership agreements while tracking theinterest of prospective investors.
Investor reporting
Securely deliver information such as, capitalstatements, quarterly reports, tax forms andhistorical fund information to LPs. Centrallyorganise and share partnership information.
M&A and co-investments
Use IntraLinks Exchanges to enable potentialbuyers to due diligence materials remotely andsecurely. Provide a secure, centrally organisedarea for managing Q&A.
Portfolio company reporting
Establish a user-friendly and cost effectivemethod for maintaining the flow of informationbetween you and your portfolio companies.
Key facts
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1,300,000 active users
90,000 organisations
5,000 industry-leading clients
75,000 transactions
Clients representing 28 industries
85 successful client security audits
Core services
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Fundraising
Investor reporting
M&A and co-investments
Portfolio company reporting
IntraLinks
Critical information exchange
The IntraLinks advantage
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Security
Our top priority is to provide you with the highestlevel of security, compliance and auditability forthe exchange of your information, avoidingpossible risks and exposure to your business.
Our solutions adhere to industry-mandatedregulatory requirements including SAS-70 LevelII and ISO 9000 certifications. IntraLinks’comprehensive approach toward securityextends across our entire solution including theapplication, infrastructure and process.
Affordability
Offering a true turnkey solution, we require noadditional hardware or software, no expensivetraining programs and no new demands on yourIT resources. With no upfront capital costs, ourSoftware as a Service (SaaS) business modelprovides a budget-friendly, scalable coststructure that yields returns almost immediatelyand continues through the long term.
Easy implementation
With tens of thousands of implementationsworldwide, we can get you up and running inminutes. Easy integration with your currentsoftware and internal systems ensures aseamless workflow. And as your businessevolves, our solution enables you to easily addusers, expand your uses and increase yourvolume of information to adapt to your everchanging business needs.
Other initiatives
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Service
Delivering a technology solution to extremelydemanding clients, such as those in financial,pharmaceutical, biotech and legal industries,requires a tremendous level of dedication andunwavering commitment to our customers’success. Offering a full-service approach, we’llset up and manage your solution so that yourteam can hit the ground running. And we provideglobal 24/7/365 live support in over 140 differentlanguages.
Expertise
For over a decade, we’ve been helpingcompanies around the world exchange theircritical information. With over 1,000,000 usersacross 90,000 organizations across the world, weoffer solutions based on innovative best-of-breedtechnologies along with direct domain knowledgeand best practices by industry to ensure you getthe most value from your IntraLinks solution.
Global
At your desk or on your Blackberry, our solutionis available in multiple languages. And withthousands of customers around the world usingIntraLinks, you can be assured that we willmanage your business globally. With personneland offices in 16 countries on 4 continents and agrowing list of leading enterprises around theworld, IntraLinks offers international reach withcustomised support.
Contacts
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Richard Cobb
Account Executive
t: +44 20 7549 5262
m: +44 7834 570 139
www.intralinks.com
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Florence Viret
EMEA Marketing Manager
t: +44 20 7549 5227
m: +44 758 417 0297
About
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At PEARonline our three decades of experiencein the private equity and venture capitalindustries helps us to understand the demands offundraising and fund reporting. We have beenthrough the challenges both GPs and LPs facebecause we have been both GPs and LPs. Oursystem is designed purely for these industries.There is no need to customize a generic solutionor lock yourself further into a back office softwarepackage.
GPs don’t want to spend time creating a softwaresystem and making it work. They just want it towork.
LPs waste too much of their precious time goingto multiple websites for their portfolio, withmultiple passwords and user names, differentlog-in procedures and varying ways of navigatingto documents and downloading them.
With PEARonline, GPs upload their investorcontact details and then they can start sendingdocuments to LPs. Those LPs can then log into asingle website with one username and onepassword and access information from all of theirGPs in a single session.
Advantages of PEARonline
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Industry specific – PEARonline was designedby private equity and venture capital experts forpeople working for and investing in these funds.
Simple and easy to use – From signing on tosending out your first documents is a matter ofhours. There is no need for special training forGPs or LPs.
Reasonable and straightforward pricingstructure – PEARonline is a fixed price system.We don’t charge you extra as you add one moreLP or one more document while the fund is onthe system, subject to reasonable uselimits.There will be no unpleasant price hikesonce you are up and running. There are nocharges for LPs, and no initial “set-up” fees.
Personal expert support – Our support staffhelped to design PEARonline from the bottomup. They have worked in the industry. Using thiscombination of skills they should there be anyproblems they will be able to help you solve themquickly.
Security – We understand the sensitivity of theinformation you are entrusting to us. For thisreason GPs control who has access to whatdocuments. Our priority is to provide our clientswith the highest level of security and to ensurethey avoid possible risks.
Key facts
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Web-based LP/GP communications
Fund raising and fund reporting
Cost effective and easy to use
GPs managing/advising funds of over $40b usePEARonline
Learn more
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To learn more about PEARonline, or to check thetimes and sign up for one of our regular onlinedemonstrations for GPs, LPs and placementagents, go to
www.pearonline.com/home/learn-more
PEARonline
A web-based platform for fund raising and fundreporting that is easy to use and cost effective
Clients
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PEARonline has a client base of GPs and LPs inEurope, North America and Asia. They are bothstart-up funds and long established GPs.Examples of our clients include:
3i
Altius Associates
ARGUS Capital
August Equity
Avigo Capital Partners
Baird Capital Partners Europe
Bridges Community Ventures
CBPE Capital
Citron Capital
Costella Kirsch
ECI
JOHCM Private Equity
MML Capital.
Our strong relationships with our clients andothers in the industry help us to understand thechallenges they face. We work with our clients tocontinue to develop a system that meets theirneeds and the needs of their LPs ensuringregular client-driven upgrades.
Background
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PEARonline was founded by Simon Thornton,who has 25 years’ experience in private equity asa GP, an LP and in information businesses. Heworked for Venture Economics, and co-foundedInitiative Europe, one of the leading private equitypublishing/information services businesses in theregion. He then joined BC Partners, where hewas responsible for fund raising and investorrelations in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.Subsequently he headed the European activitiesof US secondaries firm Landmark Partners forfive years. He sat on the EVCA ProfessionalStandards Committee for eleven years and alsoled the task force responsible for producing theAssociation’s Governing Principles. He speaksregularly at major industry conferences aroundthe world on subjects related to fundraising andfund reporting.
Contacts
_______________________________________
Jennifer Hall Thornton
CEO
t: +1 408 740 5224
www.pearonline.com
_______________________________________
Simon Thornton
Founder
t: +1 408 740 5226
About
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4vco is a London-based consultancy with a 100%focus upon private equity operations.
Founded in 2002, 4vco has a core team of threeconsultants with over 35 years of combinedexperience in private equity.
We are the number one provider of independentadvice and support to this niche marketthroughout the UK and Europe. We are proud ofour independence and ensure that all consultingrevenue is sourced from the ‘buy-side’ with nointroductory fees or other incentives.
All fees are based on time and expenses.
Clients
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4vco has worked on over 130+ engagements formore than 90 private equity organisations.
One in four engagements is outside of the UK -client assignments have been undertaken inScandinavia, Europe, the Middle East, the FarEast, Africa and the Americas.
Our clients range in size from small to very largeand cover a wide range of business modelsincluding: venture capital, buyouts,infrastructure, funds of funds, secondaries,limited partners, pension funds, family offices,advisors and fund administrators.
Services
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Our assignments cover the full project life cyclefrom strategic advice, through product selection,implementation and post-implementationoperational support.
Strategic advice
Aimed at clients that are interested in exploringtheir options, 4vco is able to deliver a precise andefficient insight into the current marketplace forprivate equity systems and services.
Our extensive experience and knowledgeenables us to quickly understand business needsand, using a library of materials, we can deliver atailored service to position our clients on a fasttrack to delivering improvements.
Above all, we deliver a proven methodology thatallows our clients to manage expectations fromday one.
Software/service selection
One of our core services, we have helped manyprivate equity houses through our structuredselection process which is designed to put keyfacts and information ‘on the table’ so that clientscan make an informed decision with confidence.
Our standard approach is template-driven forefficiency and includes options for request forinformation (RFI), product demonstrations,vendor workshops and contract negotiation.
Key facts
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3 full-time consultants plus associates
130+ assignments
90+ clients
16 countries
Core services
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Systems strategy
Vendor selection
Project management
Continuous improvement
User groups
4vco Limited
The leading provider of independent consultancyservices to private equity operations
Services cont…
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Client preparation
There are a number of important tasks that feedinto the selection process and help to prepareclients for a successful implementation.
4vco can assist with: current state analysis,historic data migration, operational roles andresponsibilities, technical considerations andreports definition.
Implementation support
The client’s chosen vendor will have anestablished methodology and will work closelywith the client to deliver the desired benefits.
The level of client input to the process can easilybe underestimated and 4vco consultants provideexperience and skills to bridge the gap.
Our consultants assist at all levels from projectsupervision through project management intospecific tasks such as managing data migration.In all cases, a tailored approach is designed toensure the optimum mix of internal and externalresourcing.
Post-implementation
4vco advises on best practice for systemownership and ongoing management. Ourhealthcheck service has proven very effective inenabling clients to maintain and increase benefitsthrough proactive system management.
Other initiatives
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PESS Events
The PESS Showcase event is hosted annually by4vco and takes place in London and New York.
Free to delegates, the event brings togethersoftware and service providers and key decisionmakers from private equity organisations, to meetand discuss market developments and relatedtopics.
PESS Awards
New in 2011, the PESS Awards recogniseexcellence in the supply chain. The Awards areIndependently judged and provide valuablefeedback to private equity service suppliers.
Independent user groups
4vco offers an independent service to users ofsoftware and services. This subscription-basedmodel provides a secure online forum andregular group meetings to share ideas and bestpractice and provide feedback to the vendor.
Market research and newsletter
4vco has closely followed the evolution of privateequity systems and services over the last 9 yearsand continues to monitor and report the latestdevelopments through its quarterly newsletterwhich is distributed to over 6,000 private equityprofessionals.
Contacts
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Tony Piper
Director
t: +44 20 7785 6999
m: +44 7775 947 901
www.4vco.com
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Paul Thompson
Senior Consultant
t: +44 20 7785 6999
m: +44 7977 490 917
About
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Founded in 1991, Chatham Financial is theworld’s largest independent hedging advisoryfirm. Our consulting teams work closely withfinancial professionals worldwide in a variety ofindustry sectors.
Private equity funds and their portfolio companiescomprise nearly half of our client base in Europeand we are proud of our long-term clientrelationships within this sector. Our advisoryengagements are on a transaction-by-transactionbasis and are fully success-based, although wehave some retainer-based services whereappropriate.
In line with our independent, client-driven serviceapproach, we develop our systems internally witha robust technology and systems group.
Why hedging matters
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Derivatives transactions are an increasinglysensitive, complex and visible aspect of privateequity investments. As such, we combine adisciplined approach to hedge decision-makingwith structuring and execution advice based onmarket-leading experience. We underpin ouradvice with proprietary technology solutions toprovide detailed and consistent mark-to-marketvaluations and other reported information toassist with the accounting and assetmanagement functions throughout theinvestment period.
How Chatham works
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Generally, private equity funds first engageChatham due to the positive economic impactour independence and market presence canbring to the execution process (even if sourceddirectly with a lending bank or banks).
"Chatham brings together first class hedging analysisand execution to suit every transaction."
Caleb Kramer, Managing Director, PrincipalInvestments, Oaktree Capital Management, LLC
Our experience and depth of resources can leadto substantial time savings and other efficiencieswithin a fund and its portfolio companies.
"Whether helping Carlyle think about our currencyexposures at the fund level or working with one of ourportfolio company CFO's to hedge interest rate risk,
Chatham has been an invaluable member of theCarlyle team."
John Harris, Senior Advisor and Former CFO,The Carlyle Group
Chatham’s goal is to become a fund’s “hedgingdesk down the hall”, which in our view can bringintangible but valuable discipline and consistencyto its overall financial risk management.
"We consider Chatham an integral member of ourcorporate finance team and have been very pleased
with the services they provide."
Keith Giger, Vice President of Finance, HCA
Key facts
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200+ Professionals Globally (London, Kraków,Singapore, Kennett Square, Denver)
€300 billion of hedging transactions annually
25,000 derivatives valuing daily in our database
20+ Corporate Private Equity Fund Clients
200+ Portfolio Companies of PE Fund Clients
Core services
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Interest Rate, Currency, Inflation, and RawMaterial Hedging Advisory
Hedge Accounting
Valuations
Debt Management System
Chatham Financial
The largest independent financial risk advisers to privateequity funds and their portfolio companies
Services
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Hedging Advisory
Chatham works closely with the treasury,accounting and capital markets teams of morethan 1,000 businesses worldwide. We work alongside of our clients on all aspects of their hedgingprograms, including: risk management analysisand consulting, hedging strategy development,transaction execution, documentation negotiationboth pre and post trade.
Hedge Accounting
Chatham serves hundreds of companiesworldwide achieve their hedge accountingobjectives. With years of experience and deepexpertise, our dedicated team of accountingprofessionals consult on and account forthousands of hedging relationships forderivatives, bringing peace of mind to our clientsand their auditors.
Valuations
Chatham provides robust valuationmethodologies and modelling sophistication forboth derivatives and debt through its web basedvaluation system. Delivering more than 22,000valuations daily we have built the mostsophisticated, comprehensive approach topotential future exposure (PFE) and creditvaluation adjustments (CVAs) and providesvaluations for all type of foreign exchange andinterest rate derivatives.
Other initiatives
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Derivatives Regulatory Advisory Services
Coupling our deep derivatives market expertisewith our intimate knowledge of derivativesregulatory requirements, Chatham is ideallysituated to help companies navigate a complexnew derivatives marketplace.
Chatham has expanded its consulting service forcompanies seeking to understand and adapt tonew derivatives regulatory requirements.
Debt Management System
Chatham’s debt management system is apowerful and dynamic system that provides aclear view of a company’s debt profile fromindividual loan details and valuations to portfolio-level reporting and analytics.
Contacts
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Mark Battistoni
Director, Europe
t: +44 20 7557 7010
www.ChathamFinancial.eu
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Brian Conly
Director, US
t: +1 610 925 3129
About Pcubed
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Pcubed is one of the world’s leading Project,Programme and Portfolio managementconsultancy providers. Our network of officesenables us to provide global coverage to all ourclients.
Today, Pcubed maintains 15 offices in theAmericas, Europe and Asia/Pacific with over 300trained professionals supporting all majorindustry sectors (e.g. automotive, manufacturing,financial, IT, pharmaceutical, healthcare andgovernment).
Successfully project managing the acquisition,merger or separation of a business isfundamental to private equity firms maximisingshareholder value. Our focused services andpragmatic pricing model ensures great value isdelivered to all our customers.Pcubed is a creative, forward-thinkingprofessional services firm providing a wide rangeof project management services across theprivate and public sectors. We’re passionateabout delivering projects on time and on budget,this is what we do: www.pcubed.com
Clients
We put our clients’ requirements at the heart ofeverything we do and provide an approach thatworks best for them. Pcubed’s client baseincludes many Fortune 500 companies and bluechip organisations across many industry sectors.
People
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Recently awarded Best Company ‘one to watch’2011, this recognition alongside many others,reflects our desire to continue to attract andretain people who make a real difference whenworking with our clients. Our people are drawnfrom a wide range of industry sectors and roles,thereby ensuring that we can field a team that isappropriate for each client’s project orprogramme. Pcubed teams are totally focusedon passionately delivering successful outcomesto our clients’ challenges.
Services & Solutions
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Project Delivery: Helping you to consistentlydeliver your project change initiatives on time andin budget through assessment, frameworks,tools, and people - building capability, quality andperformance.
Programme Leadership: Helping you to ensuredelivery of your critical project initiatives,providing real business results and reducing riskthrough effective setup, management andcontrol.
Portfolio Management: Helping you tomaximise the value, impact and efficiency of yourenterprise programmes and projects throughfact-based, best practice approaches andindustry-leading tools.
Core competencies
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Business Initiative Consulting
Tools & Technology
Process Management
PM Operations Delivery
Training & Mentoring
Core competencies
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M&A and Joint Venture Management
Major Change and IT Programme Delivery
Delivery Efficiency and Effectiveness
Optimisation of the investment roadmap
Outsourcing – full lifecycle
Pcubed
World class leaders in helping organisations conceive,manage and deliver the most challenging projects
Services & Solutions cont…
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Pcubed Tools: We provide the tools toaccelerate benefits delivery to our clients andhelp deliver sustainable client capability. Weweave the structured use of the appropriate toolsinto our service delivery to promote yoursuccess.
The type of solutions we offer ranges fromimproving new product introduction to theaccelerated deployment/recovery of strategicinitiatives, and helping clients better manage their“portfolio” of programmes and strategic projects.
100 Day Plan
Private equity buyers and sellers need to quicklyunderstand the key areas of upside opportunity,in order to deliver deal value from transactions asquickly and efficiently as possible.
We offer our clients complete end to end analysisand programme management support requiredduring the crucial pre and post deal phases.
Our experts work with flexible approaches, tocomplement the styles and investmenttimeframes of our clients and, where appropriate,secure lasting change.
Why use generalist consultants when you canuse specialists to plan and execute yourprogramme delivery? www.pcubed.com
The Rapidly Changing Role of ProjectManagement
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Historically, most project management (PM)providers have focused on tools, training,consulting or supporting niche markets. Pcubedbroke away from the pack by specialising in PM-enabled client solutions across any industry orgeographic location. This global, full-servicestrategy has given Pcubed the depth and breadthof client experience, which is reflected in our corecompetencies.
While a surprising number of organisations stillequate PM with budget and resource scheduling,the marketplace has begun a fundamental shiftaway from isolated project teams to a moreintegrated view of strategic initiatives andcollaboration at the enterprise level.
Some of the “pain” that has been driving thistransition, according to Gartner, includes:
1. Nearly 80% of all projects will be seriouslychallenged
2. Up to 30% will be cancelled outright
3. 75% of all e-commerce projects won’t meettheir objectives due to poor planning
4. Project failures, more often than not, can betraced to internal cultural barriers, such asthe lack of user involvement or executivesupport, and unrealistic expectations.
Clients include
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Aston Martin
Orange
Jaguar Land Rover
Autotrader
European Space Agency
www.pcubed.com
Contact
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Paul Freeman
Global Head – Financial Services
t: +44 20 7462 0100
About
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Advanced 365, part of Advanced ComputerSoftware Group, specialises in the delivery ofmanaged services, utilising our applicationdevelopment capabilities as a uniquedifferentiator to create exceptional businessadvantage for our private equity (PE) clients. Aspart of the Advanced Group we have abackground in Private Equity and the group’sfounder, Vin Murria, is a partner at ElderstreetInvestments, a specialist venture capital and PEfirm.
This experience in the PE market is reflected inthe group culture, aggressive acquisition strategyand organisational focus, with a detailedunderstanding of the PE market.
With a number of acquisitions in the past 2 yearsAdvanced 365 understand how to bolster ITdelivery using a modular approach to IT thatmakes it easy to integrate and merge systems.
Clients such as Lyceum Capital engageAdvanced as a trusted partner to help them:reduce cost; free internal resource from themundane to focus on the strategic; improve thelevel of IT service being delivered; remove risk;and deliver a more flexible and scalable ITservice.
If addressing any of these challenges is ofinterest then Advanced 365 will be the companyfor you!
Services
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Advanced 365 design, deploy, operate andimprove IT services from the desktop to the datacentre to enable PE firms to align IT to corebusiness requirements. Advanced 365 help ITdepartments free themselves from day to dayoperational activity to allow them to deliverstrategic value back to their business by creatingan agile and scalable infrastructure closelyaligned to core business operations, such asfund raising, investor relations and deal flow. Thisis achieved by:
IT Managed services focusing on thebackend utility components of our customersIT operations.
Application development to deliver anapplication managed service for anyapplication, with expertise in CRM and BI,data modelling & aggregation.
Choice of delivery model; either as a hostedservice managed via the Advanced 365 datacentre suite, remotely from your commsroom, as part of a cloud based service viaone of the many public cloud platformsavailable, or as a hybrid solution utilising acombination of these delivery environmentsbased upon your requirements.
This approach ensures that the technologydeployed by our customers is viewed as aninvestment, and not a liability.
Key facts
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Established in 1987
Over 100 clients in the UK
120 Advanced 365 employees, 800 in the group
Industry leading partnerships & accreditations
3 UK based data centres
Substantial cash reserves
Core services
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IT outsourcing
Cloud computing
Utility managed services focusing on backend ITinfrastructure
Application development and support for frontendapplications, such as CRM & modelling.
Advanced 365 Ltd
The leading provider of innovative IT outsourcingservices to UK private equity organisations
Services cont…
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IT Infrastructure Outsourcing
Advanced 365 take responsibility for all of yourbackend IT systems, from the desktop to the datacentre; such as email, firewalls, systemsmonitoring, data centre hosting, desktop supportetc, and deliver a service level, all based onagreed service levels for a fixed number of years.
Cloud Computing
The Utility Cloud Integration Services is a best-of-breed risk free approach for cloud servicesintegration that provides clients with service levelmanagement, remote monitoring, reporting,service desk and data transparency. Coupledwith application development and applicationmanagement capabilities customers engage withAdvanced 365 to manage their cloud operationsand the applications that sit within them.
Application Management
Advanced 365 are able to offer applicationdevelopment and support skills to deliver a fullysupported application management outsourcedservice, either for existing legacy applications orfor new applications being developed byAdvanced 365 or others, such as CRM,SharePoint or modelling. This can be deliveredas a fully managed IT outsourcing service or aspart of an 'application tier only' support service.
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Managed Service Desk
All Advanced 365 clients are supported andmanaged from our ITIL compliant managedservice desk. Hosted in the network operationscentre, the service desk can be structured as asimple call-logging facility, a technical second tierescalation facility or any combination in between.
Guaranteed Levels of Service
As an outsourcing company Advanced 365 striveto offer the highest level of service at all times. AllAdvanced 365 IT Outsourcing contracts aregoverned by a Service Level Agreement (SLA)which guarantees the levels of service acustomer can expect in terms of system uptimeand application delivery.
Customers
Advanced 365 have over 100 clients, specialisingin Financial Services and the mid-market. Clientsinclude:
Cazenove Capital Management
Charles Stanley
Deutsche Bank
Lyceum Capital
Standard Bank
Contacts
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Neil Cross
Managing Director
t: +44 20 7390 8752
m: +44 7540 109 687
www.advanced365.com
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Roy Wood
Sales Director
t: +44 20 7390 8653
m: +44 7785 297 642
About us
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Capital Support is a London-based IT Solutionsprovider with a niche expertise in setting up andsupporting the technology infrastructure of AIMorganisations.
Founded in 2002, Capital Support has grown tobecome the UK’s leading provider of bespoketechnology solutions to the finance industry.
Servicing over 150 AIM clients, across manycontinents, Capital Support truly understandshow to make technology work for your businessin an increasingly global market place.
Our clients
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Our clients range in size from start up HedgeFunds to multinational PE firms and cover arange of business models from venture capital orfunds of funds to pension funds and familyoffices.
Whatever your business model, we will provideconsistent, quality customer service and invest inyour services, consequently we have long termrelationships with all of our clients (and staff),many of whom have been with us since ourconception.
Our approach
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In an industry highly sensitive to the impacts ofdowntime – preventative IT solutions areessential to ensure you are never exposed toexpensive outages.
Unlike traditional IT support providers we offerproactive managed solutions to ensure yourtechnology is always working profitably for yourbusiness.
“Capital Support consistently delivers to thehighest standard - they are knowledgeable,
dedicated and have a wide variety oftechnical expertise”
Mark Van Der Sande, GoldenTree Asset Management
No two businesses have the same requirements,therefore we believe in providing a bespokesolution for each client – based on your businessneeds and budget – without compromising onquality or service level.
Combined with a dedicated Account Manageracting as a virtual Technology Officer, you canfocus on your core business, secure in theknowledge that your technology is in safe hands.
Key facts
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Niche expertise in private equity clients
150+ blue chip client list
International infrastructure
Bespoke and start up solutions
Core services
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IT support and solutions
Business continuity
Network and infrastructure
Communications and connectivity
Security
Specialist projects and consultancy
Capital Support Limited
The UK’s Leading provider of IT solutions andtechnology solutions to the Financial Services market
Private cloud
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Capital Support offers a variety of hostedtechnology solutions – also called private clouds.Our hosted infrastructure solutions have beendeveloped specifically for regulated firms, withsecurity, compliance and resilience at theforefront of our technical architecture.
Free Health Check
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We can carry out a no obligation audit of yournetwork, and provide you with recommendationson how to make your IT work better for yourbusiness.
“Capital Support designed, implemented andcontinues to maintain our international andtechnically complex network and domain.
Their range of skills, from basic technical toadvanced networking and project
management together with the outsourcepartners that they had suggested have
provided us with a complete and robust ITsolution. We are yet to be disappointed by
their service”
Tanera Snell, African Global Capital
Outsourced IT
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Capital Support provides a variety of outsourcedsolutions. From specialist support to existing inhouse IT teams, to completely outsourcedsolutions for organisations with no internal ITresource. All of which are designed to allow youto manage your technology with the minimumfuss at optimal cost.
Connectivity and communications
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Connectivity and communications technology isfundamental to your ability to do business.Whether you require fibre internet circuits, turretphone systems, voice recording or basic audiovisual for call conferencing we can design,procure and implement a connectivityinfrastructure that will keep you in touch with yourstakeholders 24x7.
Disaster recovery
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We design and implement a full range ofregulatory compliant DR solutions – for criticaltrading platforms and data sensitive applicationsright up to real time replication of your entireinfrastructure.
Contacts
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Nigel Brooks
Director
t: +44 20 7458 1250
m: +44 7984 192 701
www.capitalsupport.com
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Carrie Saunderson
Head of Business Development
t: +44 20 7458 1250
m: +44 7739 990 831
About
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Eze Castle Integration is the leader in meetingthe unique technology needs of private equityand alternative investment firms.
Since 1995, we have been successfully buildingand managing IT for alternative investment firms.Every day over 550 firms entrust us with theintegrity of their business and its connections tothe financial markets.
Eze Castle services encompass every aspect ofIT implementation and management required tooperate effectively in the investment industry.Our objective is to create close partnerships withour clients and to steer their technology needstoward optimal solutions which balance cost,performance and reliability. We develop robustIT systems that maximise information flow andeliminate network disruptions for our clients.
Clients
Eze Castle has been a trusted partner of thelargest and most technologically-demandingfirms. The combined assets under managementof Eze Castle’s 550+ clients surpasses $300billion.
Locations
Eze Castle has offices servicing the financialcenters of Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Geneva,London, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York,San Francisco, Singapore and Stamford.
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Outsourced technology provider
Eze Castle provides clients with outsourced ITservices to better manage their internal ITrequirements. Our vast knowledge base assuresthat someone on our team has addressed nearlyevery conceivable issue your firm will face. EzeCastle’s support engagements center ondelivering quality, timely and professional on-sitesupport as well as live 24x7x365 Help Desksupport. Learn more
Project and technology management
Whether opening a new office or relocating, EzeCastle manages the complete IT projectmanagement lifecycle from IT design anddevelopment to comprehensive projectmanagement, systems procurement andseamless technology integration. Learn more
Hosted IT solutions
A fully managed service, Eze Virtual Officeprovides firms with a highly available technologyinfrastructure bundled with the businessapplications they require. This service eliminatesthe need to build a data center or purchaseequipment, greatly reducing operational risk andsaving time and money. Learn more
Key facts
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Founded in 1995
Worldwide presence: offices in London, Geneva,Singapore and across the United Sates
550 alternative investment clients
Core services
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Strategic IT consulting
Outsourced IT support
Network and infrastructure design and support
Communications: voice and internet
Business continuity planning
Disaster recovery and security
Eze Castle Integration
The leading provider of IT services andtechnology consultancy to private equity andalternative investment firms
Services
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Network and infrastructure
Eze Castle offers a full range of network andinfrastructure design, procurement and supportservices to ensure your network is highly secureand always available. Learn more
Disaster recovery
Eze Disaster Recovery provides high availabilityand disaster recovery for business-critical dataand applications. This service is ideal for firmsthat rely on mission-critical applications forbusiness operations. Learn more
Business continuity planning
Our BCP service covers the full-spectrum ofbusiness continuity planning to help protect youroperations. The Eze BCP methodologyencompasses four key components: riskassessment, business impact analysis, strategyand plan development and plan testing andmaintenance. Learn more
Back-up and recovery
Eze Castle’s Eze Vault delivers a highly reliabledata back-up and recovery solution. Eze Vault isa fully automated service that works by securelytransferring data to a remote data center where itcan be quickly recovered or restored. Learn more
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Storage solutions
Eze Castle teamed with storage leader NetApp todeliver proven solutions that utilise Storage AreaNetworks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage(NAS) solutions. Eze Castle handles everythingfrom design, procurement and installation toongoing support and maintenance. Learn more
Colocation services
Our colocation services allow firms to house theircomputing, network, storage and IT infrastructurein a Tier 3 facility that is highly secure, redundantand professionally managed and monitored.Learn more
Voice solutions
Eze Castle is an Avaya Business Partner andhas delivered voice solutions to more than 550investment firms. Our team works with clients todesign a solution, manage implementation andprovide post-installation support andmaintenance. Learn more
Internet service provider
ECINet, offered by Eze Castle, delivers a fullspectrum of Internet service capabilities thatmeet the immediate and future needs ofinvestment firms. Learn more
Contacts
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Dean Hill
Sales Manager, UK
t: +44 20 7071 6807
m: +44 7919 050502
www.eci.com
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Vinod Paul
Managing Director, US
t: +1 212 954 0641
About
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What we do
M4 Systems is a leading UK Microsoft GoldCertified Partner delivering world-class businesssolutions to the Financial Services sector. Wespecialise in the delivery, configuration, supportand development of integrated systems basedupon Microsoft Dynamics AX, GP, CRM andSharePoint business management systems.
Expertise
Private Equity provides critical capital andexpertise to many important companies, enablinginvestment growth and success.
M4 provides IT expertise - enabling companies toleverage their human capital, much moreeffectively and more productively.
Our expertise enables our customers to benefit ata very reasonable cost from the recent dramaticadvances in IT technologies such as: Cloudcomputing / Smartphones / Tablets / SecureRemote Access / RIA / SSL / SQL / ERP / CRM /BI / WF which have occurred over the past fewyears (Acronyms explained below).
Our talented team has a wide range of skillsincluding: Microsoft Certified Engineers, QualifiedAccountants, Surestep Project Managers,Software Developers and a highly experienced,friendly Support team.
Services
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M4 Systems strengths are in the highlytechnically qualified team who are able to providea wide range and variety of solutions utilisingMicrosoft products.
Consulting Services
Application Consultants, certified with MicrosoftDynamics ERP solutions and Dynamics CRM,enable us to configure applications specifically tomeet the needs of the Private Equity Sector. Thisincludes chart of account design, audit trails andsecurity, consolidated reporting, as well as dealflow, investor relation processes and relevantreporting. For remote workers, online or mobilesolution’s for Time and Expense recording, or forinvestors, automated publication of key reportsand data.
Development Services
Whether your requirement is local or global, forhosted, mobile or on-premise solutions, Certifiedfor Microsoft Dynamics Development, M4 willdeliver a solution on time and on budget to meetyour exact requirements.
Key facts
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Established over 10 years
4 offices
50+ employees
100+ clients
Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
Core services
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Microsoft Dynamics ERP implementation
Online and Mobile solutions
Hosting
Business Intelligence and reporting
System Integration and Development
M4 Systems
A leading provider of Microsoft Dynamics Software,Services and Technology to the Financial Services Sector
Services cont…
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Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft SharePoint provides a secure, real timeportal with access to the right information in theright format for your investor and deal teams.SharePoint also offers a secure portal forinvestors and partners to access their pertinentdata, such as fund and update reports. M4’sSharePoint services include the development ofintranets as well as high customization extranets,from single day consultancy to large scaleprojects. SharePoint is about understanding boththe business and technical capabilities so thateffective collaboration is achieved.
Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI)
Business intelligence, analytics and reportingwithin any organisation needs to be quick,accurate, meet legal requirements and providereliable performance metrics to your investors.The combination of SQL Server, SharePoint andOffice on a single platform provides an excellenttool for this purpose.
This will enable your executives to analyse thedata within your systems easily and enable yourinvestors to be presented with data in ameaningful, graphical, and professional format.
Other initiatives
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M4 Systems qualifications and skills include:
Qualified Accountants
Microsoft certified .Net DevelopmentEngineers
Microsoft certified Dynamics CRM applicationconsultants
Microsoft certified Dynamics ERP applicationconsultants
Qualified Project Managers (PRINCE II andMicrosoft Sure step accredited)
Certified and highly experienced Supportteam
Our Expertise also includes:
o Networking / Active Directoryo SQL Server 2005/2008o VMware and Hyper-Vo SharePointo Secure Remote Access (SSL)o Hosting Services (Co Lo)o Cloud Computing (EC2)o On-line backupso Rich Internet Apps (RIA)o Application Developmento Windows Workflow (WF)o Dynamics Source Codeo SQL and RDBMS Designo Net / Silverlight / HTML 5o All types of Integrationso XML / WebServices / JSONo iPhone iPad Blackberry Apps
Contacts
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Tory Cassie
Business Development Manager
t: +44 845 5000 777
m: +44 7500 960250
www.m4systems.com
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David Saunders
Managing Director
t: +44 845 5000 777
m: +44 7740 406 191
About
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TripsWare is the expense reporting solutionexclusively focused on the private equityindustry. It lets you track your costs offundraising, portfolio company oversight and duediligence initiatives while simplifying expensereport submission for your employees.
TripsWare is owned and operated by ParagonComputer Solutions Inc., a New York-basedprivate company that has been providingbusiness solutions for the private equity fieldsince 1997.
Our team of expert professionals has extensiveexperience in private equity, accounting, andfinancial systems. As a boutique firm, we havethe flexibility to meet the most complex andbespoke needs of our clients.
Our mission is to establish and maintain long-term relationships with our clients in order tomeet their accounting, reporting, and compliancerequirements on an ongoing basis.
Clients
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Our clients include some of the largest privateequity firms in the world, as well as venturecapital firms, investment advisors, LPs and fundof funds.
Services
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Travel and Entertainment Expense Reporting
TripsWare manages Travel and Entertainment(T & E) expenses from all sources for all aspectsof deal flow including fund raising, due diligence,portfolio company management, andmanagement company overhead. We provide anend-to-end automated solution that streamlineseach step of the expense reporting process, fromcapture, allocation and submission to approval,reimbursement and bill-back.
Key Features
Generate detailed reports for expensetracking, spend management analysis,audits, and compliance.
Create custom invoices for portfolio companybill-back, expediting recovery of billableexpenses.
Assign pre-set allocation percentages tomultiple funds, investors, or other entities.
Custom A/R solution to track agingreceivables for all recoverable expenses.
Upload credit card statements for fastexpense report preparation.
Manage expenses from vendors such as limoservices, FedEx, etc.
Integrate expense data with general ledgerand back office accounting system,eliminating manual data entry and errors.
Key facts
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Web-based SaaS solution launched in 2006
Client base with AUM > $100 billion
Users in 12 countries
White label branding available
Strategic alliances include American Express,Microsoft, Intuit, and Sage
100+ assignments for
Core services
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T & E expense reporting automation
Best practices for PE expense management
Portfolio company invoicing
Due diligence cost tracking
CFO reporting tools
TripsWare
Expense management solutions for private equity firms
Services cont…
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Custom Accounting Solutions
We help investment firms with all types ofexpense management challenges. If you have aspecific nuance related to your back officeoperations or accounting workflow, we candesign a customized solution for your needs.
Best Practices for Expense Management
Our knowledge and first-hand experience in theprivate equity field allows us to provide domainexpertise and suggestions for best practices. Wework with well-established firms looking tomigrate from inefficient legacy systems, newfirms that are just getting started, or spin-offentities that need to set up their own back office.We can also make recommendations to optimizeyour GL set up to improve your ability to trackexpenses within your accounting software.
Support
We pride ourselves on our consistent record ofexcellent customer support. Your firm will beassigned a dedicated TripsWare team who willassist you with all services, including roll out,training and ongoing support.
You need TripsWare if...
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You want real-time visibility into companyspending for control, compliance, andtransparency
You need an efficient way to track spendingassociated with fundraising, portfoliocompany oversight, due diligence initiativesand management company overhead
You want to work with a technology partnerwho understands your business
Join the growing number of satisfied privateequity and VC firms who use TripsWare tomanage their expenses.
“After looking at other vendors, we found thatnobody understands the particular challenge
of private equity firms the way TripsWaredoes. TripsWare has made expensemanagement easier for everyone.”
Accounting Manager, investment firm -$1bn AUM
”TripsWare has made a name for itself as adominant vendor for the financial services
vertical, achieving significant traction with itsexpense management solution in private
equity, venture capital and investmentsegments.”
Paystream Advisors, 2008 Technology InsightSeries on Travel and Expense Management
Contacts
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Sue Banner
Director, Client Relations
t: +1 (914) 747-3244
m: +1 (917) 710-1842
www.TripsWare.com
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For more information, visitwww.TripsWare.com
About
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Fully integrated and secure accounting softwarethat manages the financial compliance andreporting requirements of private equitycompanies.
Key features:
Unlimited companies (simple change of yearends).
Unlimited user-defined analysis.
Unlimited user-defined ledgers/input screens.
Multi-currency – advanced.
Fund/investment accounting.
Fund consolidation accounting.
Non-financial data capture.
Joint venture accounting.
Easy integration with fund management systems.
Unlimited reporting levels.
Clients
TDR Capital: TDR Capital is a leading privateequity firm with approximately €2.6 billion ofcommitments under management.
Milestone Capital: Milestone is an independentEuropean private equity investor owned by itspartners. Milestone has offices in London andParis and backs management teams in buy-and-build transactions.
Services
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PS Financials plc is the owner and author of PSFinancials software which is a highly focused,experienced company, dedicated to the sale,implementation and support of PS Financialssoftware for a wide variety of organisations in theUK, Europe, USA, Africa, Middle East, Asia andAustralasia.
Award-winning support (as voted by users):
Winners of Software Satisfaction Awards –Enterprise Accounting two consecutive years andWinners of Charity Finance magazine’s customersurvey.
PS Financials software is designed for Windowsand web users with Microsoft Visual C# and .Nettools. This provides the same look and feel asMicrosoft products, this user familiarity coupledwith intuitive operation minimises the trainingrequirements.
The PS Financials software is supplied as a“package”, all customers are provided with thelatest software features and new releases as partof their annual support agreement. This ensuresthat our experienced team can provideunparalleled support, consultancy and guidanceto the user.
PS Financials is more than an accounting systemhaving inbuilt CRM and Data Warehousecapabilities. This ensures “real time” reporting onthe total business with both financial and non-financial data to Management and the Board.
Products
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PS Accounting Software
PS Vision Reporting
PS Order Processing
PS Income Management System
PS Workflow
PS Web Portal
Products
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PS Document Management
Reporting Services Viewer
PS API, PS Data Transfer Tool (DTT)
PS Rules Engine and Email Alerts
PS Document Emailer
PS Web Expenses, PS Web Timesheets
PS Financials plcAward-winning financial accounting, orderprocessing, budgeting, billing, project control,consolidation and process automation software
Services cont…
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Unified ledger
An unlimited number of ledgers may be created –Sales, Purchase, Nominal, Fund, Department,Project, Asset etc.
All ledgers are totally integrated – by design.
An unlimited number of views of the data may becreated – ideal for the non-financial user.
Always in balance, real-time view of the exactposition.
Unique drill down and navigation of data, thereare no modular boundaries.
There are no arbitrary rules – easy to operate.
PS Financials is a single or multi-companysystem providing easy consolidation at all levels.
Full multi-currency capabilities, unlimitedcompanies and recording four currencies pertransaction line.
All ‘modules’ are totally integrated to provide anaccurate real-time picture – unified ledgerstructure.
Designed to replace/absorb peripheralspreadsheet systems in your organisation.
So as to provide:
One Version of the Truth
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Reduce work and eliminate errors by integratingwith existing operational systems in yourorganisation. Integration is made easy with:batch, seamless – API and web servicesintegration.
Easy to use by non-financial users.
PSF is designed in the most modern computingenvironments and is therefore undemanding ofyour IT infrastructure: servers, workstations andcommunications, etc.
Contacts
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Phil Warner
Director
t: +44 (0) 1733 367 330
www.psfinancials.com
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PS Financials plc
t: +44 (0) 1733 367 330
f: +44 (0) 1733 367 331
About
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nScaled provides hybrid cloud infrastructure as aservice (IaaS) for the enterprise. We servecustomers with highly confidential data and zerotolerance for system downtime or data loss. Ourunique Hybrid Cloud architecture givescustomers maximum flexibility and dependability;our services agreement is the strongest, mostcustomer-centric available; and our 24x7customer support is unmatched in expertise andresponsiveness.
nScaled offers customers multiple cloudsolutions, including primary application hosting,disaster recovery and backup. All services takeadvantage of our global network of RemoteCloud data centers plus our on-premises LocalCloud appliance, all managed as one secure,seamless infrastructure.
Clients
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nScaled’s clients trust some of the most sensitiveinformation in the world to our secure cloudsolutions. Our customers range in size from 25 to10,000 employees, and use our backup anddisaster recovery services to protect an averageof 10TB of data apiece. nScaled serves hedgefunds, private equity firms and venture capitalfirms of all sizes, as well as law firms, andprofessional services companies.
Services
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Backup & Recovery
nScaled provides comprehensive cloud backupand disaster recovery for all servers andworkloads in the data centre. Unlike tape backup,the nScaled solution makes use of snapshottechnology with incremental differencing toprovide a near continuous backup. Data is firstreplicated to a local mirror device (the nScaledLocal Cloud appliance) residing in the LAN, andthen de-duplicated at 90% efficiency before beingreplicated over WAN links to the local nScaledRemote Cloud data centre.
Data recovery is fast and easy (typically under 15minutes) from any snapshot recovery point onthe nScaled Local Cloud appliance and caninclude individual email messages, files,databases or entire volumes. Data is encryptedduring transmission over the WAN and is alsoimmediately available for recovery in the RemoteCloud. At least three copies of all data exists, intwo separate geographic locations.
Snapshot recovery points provide completehistorical protection. The nScaled Cloud Consolemanages policies and recoveries from bothlocations (local and remote). There is no need forinvestment in offsite facilities as they are includedin the service.
Key facts
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Experts in cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
International infrastructure
ISO 27001 compliant data centres
Core services
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Infrastructure as a Service
Backup as a Service
Disaster recovery as a Service
Application hosting
nScaled
nScaled provides hybrid cloud infrastructure solutionsto private equity and other financial services firms
Services cont…
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Disaster Recovery
Using the same snapshotting technology used inthe nScaled Backup solution, the disasterrecovery solution goes a step further by makingevery snapshot a complete bootable serverimage. Snapshots contain all OS, application anddata necessary to spin up a failover server.nScaled also automatically handles everythingelse needed to create a failover server, includingVLANs, Active Directory, and IP addressassignment. With nScaled, failovers take just 15minutes and can achieve an RPO of 30 minutes.
When trouble strikes your data center, thenScaled system provides multiple ways torecover depending on the source of failure. Lost,corrupted or deleted data (whether single files,emails or entire folders or databases) can beeasily recovered from the Local Cloud in minutes.This is the most common form of failure andrecovery and is something we help our clientswith every day. This type of recovery is equallyeffective in case of virus attack or otherdeliberate human event.
If an entire server fails (due to hardware orsoftware failure) this can be easily recovered onthe Local Cloud as a replacement virtualmachine. This process takes around 15 minutesto complete, and is initiated using the nScaledCloud Console. Once service has been restored
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to users, the new virtual machine can be restoredto a new location or to a physical host during ascheduled maintenance window.
If your data center suffers from catastrophicfailure, all systems can be recovered within thenScaled cloud within hours. Our VMwareenvironment is powerful enough to support yourentire organization, and regular testing isavailable to ensure that systems can be restoredwithin your target recovery times. Recovery takesplace using the nScaled Cloud Console andsmart system design manages IP addressing,networking and other requirements. Once servicehas been restored, replication is reversed for afinal recovery back to the original data center.
Primary Application Hosting
nScaled provides primary application hosting withits Hybrid Cloud infrastructure from its globalnetwork of data centres. By placing primaryapplications within the nScaled Remote Cloud,the customer’s IT team is able to rapidly and costeffectively deploy services from multiple locationsaround the globe, right-size their infrastructure,consolidate, and avoid long term capitalinvestments in fixed assets. For addedprotection, disaster recovery and businesscontinuity services replicate systems and databetween nScaled facilities, or back to thecustomer location.
Locations
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Offices: Data centres:
London London
San Francisco Chicago
Dallas
www.nscaled.com
Contacts
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Michael Evans
Managing Director
t: +44 20 3318 0163
m: +44 7947 802 886
About us
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Founded in 1986, the Burgiss Group is atechnology and financial services companyserving investors in private assets. With over300 clients worldwide, our Private i suite ofapplications and services help investors trackover $1 trillion dollars of fund investments inventure capital, corporate finance, and realassets.
We count as clients some of the largest and mostsophisticated investors in the world, includingfoundations, endowments, government andcorporate pensions, sovereign wealth funds,funds of funds, advisors and family offices. Our100+ employees serve clients in 16 countries.We have strong relationships with BNY Mellon,Northern Trust, and JPMorgan InvestmentManagement.
The Private i Suite
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Private i
Private equity portfolio management
Initially developed in conjunction with one of theworld’s largest pension funds, Private i quicklyfound favor with funds of funds, universityendowments and foundations. Private i helpsinvestors easily capture essential information onprivate investments and then lets themconcentrate on the real task at hand – investingwell by helping them continuously monitor,
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measure and report on their portfolios.
In addition to an intuitive design, it is itsadvanced analytics and reporting that setsPrivate i apart. For example, Private i was thefirst commercial software to incorporate the IndexComparison Method (ICM), which allowsinvestment teams to compare private marketreturns to equivalent public market investmentswith the press of a button. Private i’s newestanalytics include additional advanced measures,such as neutral weighting and time-zerocalculations, that help investors understandperformance attribution and risk.
With its web-based design and robust securitymodel, Private i appeals to institutions large andsmall.
Private Informant
Portfolio holdings data service
Assessing the risk of a portfolio of private assetsbegins with knowing what those assets are.Private Informant is our subscription-basedportfolio holdings data service. Our data servicesteam currently receives and analyses thequarterly reports of over 4,500 funds and extractsinvestment activity in almost 60,000 companies.With each investment classified by industry,stage and region, and with detailed investmentcost, market value and proceeds, PrivateInformant provides investors with a rich trove of
Key facts
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100+ staff supporting
300+ clients in
16 countries
Products
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Private i
Private Informant
Private Archivist
Private i FrontOffice
Private iQ
The Burgiss Group
Long-term solutions for long-term assets
The Private i Suite cont…
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data about their investments. With its advancedreporting and exporting capability, investors caneasily aggregate and assess their exposure.
Private Archivist - Document management
Private equity investors are flooded withunstructured information. Private Archivist is aweb-based solution built on an industry-strengthdocument management system from Xerox.Whether capturing Private PlacementMemorandums, quarterly reports, Excel modelsor tracking versions of negotiated side letters,Private Archivist helps manage your files anddocuments efficiently. As a true documentmanagement system, Private Archivist storesand secures your precious files with full searchcapability, version control, check-in and check-out capability for true records management.
Private i FrontOffice - Due diligence
As fundraising activity picks up again, it is moreimportant than ever for organisations investing inprivate equity to perform thorough due diligenceand to ensure they have a strong process inplace to review and approve (or reject) potentialfund commitments. With Private i FrontOfficeyour teams can track and share key informationin a structured due diligence process and ensurethey collaborate in their decision making.
Other initiatives
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Private iQ
Private iQ, a collaboration between the BurgissGroup and its partners and clients, addresses thecritical need for better understanding about howprivate equity behaves as an asset class.
Over five years in the making, thisgroundbreaking benchmarking and informationservice is built on our institutionally-adoptedportfolio management software, sophisticatedtools for data assembly, aggregation andanalysis, and the patience and cooperation ofmany interested parties. Private iQ is based on arepresentative, maintainable, and durabledatabase that can be used to analyze andsummarize the behavior of fund investments inprivate markets. The data gathering is entirelyelectronic, capitalizing on Burgiss Groupinfrastructure, technology and expertise. Datacontributors and all fund information is blinded.
Contacts
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The Burgiss Group
t: +1 201 427 9600
t: +44 20 3514 0380
www.burgiss.com
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About
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Mediasterling provides software systems andcreative services for producing branded financialreports, presentations and corporatecommunications.
Specialist areas
Design and build of templates and tools sousers quickly produce high quality reportsand presentations using Microsoft Office.
Private Equity, Investment Research andother financial services reporting templates,tools and production solutions.
Design and production of annual reports,corporate websites, investor communicationsand other time-critical, market-sensitivecommunications.
Clients
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Mediasterling’s client base is predominantlyfinancial services, including:
Private Equity
Investment Banking
Corporate Finance
Asset Management
Corporate Communications.
Benefits
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Mediasterling designs and builds solutions soyou save time and money preparing financialreports, pitch books, tenders and presentations.
Business Case
Purpose-built templates and software tocreate and manage content in Word, Exceland PowerPoint
Automation streamlines the process ensuringvisual quality, accuracy and speed
Cost and time efficient as you create superiorquality, branded documents andpresentations in-house
Configured for your Office platform -guaranteed ease of use and IT friendly setup.
Quality, Speed, Accuracy
Using Mediasterling’s expert, easy-to-usetemplates and tools for Word, PowerPoint andExcel, you have complete control of content,proofing and deadlines to respond immediately tomarket and project demands.
Documents and presentations are made quickly,with outstanding levels of visual quality, accuracyand brand consistency.
This also means that associated costs, delaysand complexities associated with any externalcreation and corrections are eliminated.
Key facts
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Complete service from visual design through toproduction and implementation
Responsive, London City-based
Established for over 10 years
ISO accreditation for security, quality andenvironmental management
Core services
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Word, PowerPoint and Excel template creation
Design and technical production
Bespoke application development
Reports, website and marketing material designand production
Mediasterling
Produce the highest quality reports and presentationsusing Microsoft Office
The Project Process
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Design
Our creative team has over 10 years experiencein producing clear, professional high qualitydesigns to maximise your information. We caneither optimise your existing design or create anew design within your brand.
Build
Expert templates are built to ensure style, clarityand brand consistency. A suite of tools help youeasily manage content so your reporting anddocument production processes are quick,accurate and efficient.
Implement
Because we build everything for Microsoft Office,users are immediately fluent with the software.Individuals or large teams are instantlyproductive, with minimum training and noadditional business software expense.
We liaise with your IT to ensure a seamlessintegration with your existing systems for asmooth deployment.
Service
Our solutions are extremely intuitive and easy touse but, if required, we provide help files, trainingand ongoing technical support.
Other initiatives
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Investment Research Production
Mediasterling is the market leader for financialreporting and investment research templates.
Our software immediately improves theeffectiveness of both equity and non-equityresearch report production, delivering theultimate balance of control, style and flexibility ina familiar Microsoft Office environment.
Fund Reporting
We build completely automated systems for theproduction of investor fund fact sheets. Oursystems batch produce financial reports toguarantee accuracy and save costs over manualproduction.
Corporate Communications
In addition to technology, we also providecreative services for business communicationsand reporting. These include:
Annual Reports
Investor and Corporate Websites
Investor Road show presentations
Corporate Finance documents
Brand identity development
Marketing communications.
Contacts
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Rod Lambert
Director
t: +44 20 7749 2000
www.mediasterling.com
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James Travis
Director
t: +44 20 7749 2000
About you
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Working in private equity, you will understand theimportance of having accurate data at yourdisposal when making key business decisions.Your portfolio companies report this data to youusing spreadsheets made especially to draw outthe numbers you need — you then process thisand your own data using more spreadsheets,preparing it for business use and for reporting toyour investors. But without being sure that thesekey spreadsheets are working correctly, how canyou be sure that the data you rely on is correct?
About us
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We are a technology company uniquelyconcerned with spreadsheet and Accessdatabase risk management. Spreadsheets areubiquitous in the financial services industry, oftencreated on an ad hoc basis to address specificfinancial or reporting needs. But the role and theimportance of individual spreadsheets within theoverall data system is often poorly understood,so that erroneous or fraudulent changes tospreadsheet data can easily go unnoticed — orhave unanticipated consequences later on.Needless to say, the cost of this kind of mistakecan be astronomical. ClusterSeven offers acomprehensive spreadsheet data risk solutionallowing financial services providers of all kindsto operate safe in the knowledge that the data intheir key spreadsheets is correct and error-free.
Product
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The ClusterSeven Enterprise SpreadsheetManager (ESM) is the complete solution to yourspreadsheet data risk management needs.
eDiscovery — ClusterSeven scans yournetwork, precisely locating all spreadsheetsand showing you how they are connected.
Risk reporting — Using sophisticated riskassessment technology, ClusterSevenchecks your spreadsheets against a body ofuser customisable rules to produce detailedPDF risk reports allowing you to easilyidentify potentially dangerous data changesbefore they can do any damage.
Audit trail — ClusterSeven automaticallyrecords every data change made to everycell of every spreadsheet against the ID ofthe user responsible, providing you with acomplete, tamper-proof audit trail andoptional one-click file reversion.
Active management — Our risk assessmenttechnology highlights significant data orstructural changes, so that you can choose toreview only the alterations that matter.ClusterSeven can be customised toautomatically send out notifications alertingyou to exceptional changes as they happen.
Our Access Database Manager (ADM) extendsthe same functionality to Access databases,providing you with a unified solution applicableacross your entire fragmented data system.
What is data risk management?
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Simply put, it is the process of controlling andmitigating risks resulting from inaccurate data.Until recently, relatively little attention has beengiven to data risk as opposed other, better knownkinds of operational risk — but this is changing,with regulators worldwide increasingly inclined toidentify it as an area of specific concern.
Locations
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Offices: London and New York, with resellers ina number of other countries worldwide.
Implementations: We have proven experienceof implementing our solution across differentcountries and continents for international clients.
ClusterSeven
Experts in spreadsheet data risk management across thefinancial services industry
The spreadsheet life cycle
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Spreadsheets can be created to fulfil all sorts ofdata requirements as and when they arise: this isthe power of End User Computing (EUC). Butonce a spreadsheet becomes embedded fromrepeated operational use, it effectively takes onthe role of a key data application.
In an ideal world, End User Computing willprovide a temporary fix to data needs that — iflong term or permanent — will eventually befulfilled by a designed IT solution. But in reality itcan be difficult or (in practical terms) impossibleto replace a spreadsheet occupying a critical rolein your data system.
Using ClusterSeven, users can map out thespreadsheets comprising their data systems inorder to identify individual EUC solutions forreplacement. ClusterSeven will then assist in thisprocess by providing you with accurate, detailedinformation on the role and the composition ofthe spreadsheet, allowing you to correctlyreplicate its function in a permanent solution.
But this is an ongoing process; newspreadsheets are constantly being created tomeet new data requirements. ClusterSeven thusfulfils a vital role by allowing businesses tooperate with reliable, high-quality data on apermanent basis regardless of which individualspreadsheets are moving along the “conveyorbelt” of creation, usage, analysis and retirementat any one time.
Key facts
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Established in 2003, ClusterSeven has quicklybecome one of the leading providers of data riskmanagement solutions to the financial servicesindustry. As well as working with companies of allsizes from various individual business sectors,ClusterSeven actively advocates the importanceof data risk management within the industry, andpromotes awareness of the dangers ofinadequate data control.
Clients
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Private equity: Swiss Bank (case studyavailable).
Other financial services clients include leadinginvestment and retail banks, insurance andenergy companies.
Where next?
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Our website contains a wealth of usefulinformation on data risk management. If you areinterested in learning more, simply enter acontact request using the “Get Started” buttonand we will be in touch. Alternatively, you cancontact us directly using the details below.
Contacts
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London: James Ellis
t: +44 20 7148 6270
m: +44 7849 529 460
www.clusterseven.com
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New York: Jeremy Condie
t: +1 (212) 858 7792
m: +1 (347) 837 9058
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