Growing regulatory and investor reporting requirements, combined with increasing pressure on fees, has made it imperative for general partners to maintain thoroughly efficient operations and a single source of truth for their data. eFront Invest GP is a web-based, end-to-end alternative investment fund management software for GPs that streamlines the investment cycle, from operational and fund management to investor relationship management, offering the broadest set of features in alternative investment technology today.
Rob Goldstein, BlackRock’s COO, and Mark O’Hare, Preqin’s Founder, discuss how Preqin advances BlackRock’s private market capabilities, enabling the delivery of integrated investment, technology and data solutions across clients’ whole portfolios.
PREPACKAGED DEPLOYMENT
General partners in need of an immediate fund management solution can leverage eFront Invest GP’s Ready version developed from industry best practices and over 15 years of experience, in order to secure a rapid deployment.
INVESTOR MANAGEMENT
Centralize investor communications and conveniently manage investor allocations through eFront Invest GPs dedicated investor relationship management software tools.
ONE-STOP SOLUTION
eFront Invest GP offers the broadest feature set in alternative investment fund management technology thanks to over 15 years of continuous innovation and development. Additionally, as a fully integrated member of the eFront Solutions Suite, eFront Invest GP enables general partners to seamlessly scale and integrate new capabilities, allowing them to meet their evolving business requirements, from deal flow activities all the way to investor reporting.
INTUITIVE AND COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNTING
Leverage a flexible, transaction-driven accounting system specifically designed to meet the nuances of a diverse set of alternative investments. Through advanced tools streamlining everything from amortization and tranche calculations to closing and settlement procedures, GPs can quickly and easily achieve their bookkeeping objectives.
ADVANCED REPORTING TOOLS
eFront Invest GP equips general partners with the reporting they need in order to quickly and easily complete detailed performance calculations throughout their investment structure, with dedicated modules thoroughly covering fees, debt, and hedging-related transactions.
STREAMLINED WORKFLOWS
With a large variety of workflow options addressing the different stages of the investment cycle, general partners can leverage eFront Invest GP to optimize operations throughout their entire team in order to greatly increase team efficiency and promote auditability.
Meeting investors’ increasingly detailed reporting expectations is time-consuming.
Accurately maintaining bookkeeping for a diverse set of complex alternative investment structures consumes considerable time and resources.
Stringent regulatory requirements and increasing pressure on fees makes it ever more imperative for general partners to maintain efficient operations.
Manually consolidating and tracking investment information across multiple software platforms and excel files is time-consuming and error-prone.
Few available fund management software solutions have the breadth to meet complex and diverse requirements across alternative asset classes and investment types throughout the investment cycle.
Most software tools are limiting in terms of the complexity of calculations GPs can leverage across investments, especially regarding FX and debt-related transactions.
eFront Invest centralizes the capabilities GPs require throughout their investment cycle into one single location, reducing operational errors from storing information across multiple systems. GPs can leverage eFront Invest's workflow and compliance tools in order to streamline, centralize, and optimize team performance while strengthening the integrity and traceability of information and promoting auditability across investments.
Because eFront Invest was configured as a European software solution prior to the Euro Zone, it was designed to address multi-currency investment situations. With information stored in investor, fund, operation, and share currencies, eFront Invest gives general partners the flexibility to effortlessly record any type of transaction. Thanks to powerful dashboards, GPs can easily monitor currency risk and model various hedging instruments (FX Spot, FX Forward, Interest Rate Swap, Cross Currency Swap, etc.).
eFront Invest supports a wide range of formatting for internal and external reporting including excel, word, pdf, fully customizable dashboards, and queries, in addition to full ILPA compliance. With targeted modules addressing debt and hedging transactions, eFront Invest facilitates best in class reporting capabilities at every step of the investment cycle. GPs can further leverage complete integration with eFront’s Investment Café in order to seamlessly and effortlessly transform their fund management and investor communications.
eFront Invest reduces the amount of time GPs spend on bookkeeping activities through the automation of countless features including revaluations, account rebalancing, and general ledger entries, thereby reducing the risk of manual errors. Furthermore, thanks to eFront Invest’s simplified transaction-driven approach, GPs do not need accounting expertise in order to manage their investments. With just one initial setup of accounting schemes, postings can be automatically generated at the validation of transactions.
eFront Invest incorporates a set of advanced reporting tools that enable GPs to gain full transparency throughout their entire investment structure all the way down to their underlying portfolio companies. Through automation, GPs can also set up advanced operations that can later be automatically replicated for future transactions, greatly increasing the operational efficiency of capital calls on multiple fund vehicles, fee apportionment on multiple entities, and consolidations across their investment structure.
ABOUT ALADDIN
Aladdin® is a technology platform used by asset managers and owners including banks, financial institutions, pensions, corporations, insurers, and wealth managers. The Aladdin platform unifies the investment management process, providing a common data language within an organization to enable scale, provide insights, and support business transformation. Through eFront® technology, alternative investment data management is covered to meet the needs of alternative investment professionals worldwide and across all major alternative asset classes. From fundraising, fund administration and reporting to data services and analytics, the platform provides capabilities to support decision making and investment oversight.
Aladdin® and eFront® platforms bring together public and private asset class data to create an industry-recognized whole portfolio solution for investment professionals globally. Find out more at www.blackrock.com/aladdin | request@blackrock.com
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