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Allocator requests for information have consistently been on the increase. As this trend continues and regulatory scrutiny tightens, GPs need more efficient ways of delivering the data their clients require. They need to do this in an accurate and timely manner while not detracting from their main focus of raising funds and generating alpha, explains Louise Verga (pictured), managing director, head of Americas, Dasseti.
Accelex, a SaaS platform specialising in alternative investment data acquisition, reporting and analytics, has launched a portfolio analytics and reporting platform for institutional investors and asset servicers.  Accelex says the launch is in response to growing client demand for a solution that delivers insights from data extracted via periodic fund performance reports and statements. Accelex’s new solution allows investors and asset servicers to analyse portfolio drivers across their entire investment network, including underlying asset operating performance. The solution also provides an audit trail that links all data to its location within the source document, exposure analysis to identify concentration risks
With change a constant in the fund administration space, Justin Partington, group head of fund & asset managers at IQ-EQ, outlines how continuous innovation and investment have allowed the company to both meet client needs and respond to new industry challenges…
Chronograph, a provider of portfolio monitoring solutions for private equity, has begun working with data cloud company Snowflake to launch a new connectivity-as-a-service offering for PE portfolio monitoring. Chronograph’s Snowflake connectivity-as-a-service offering aims to simplify data extract, load, transform (ELT) at scale, and enhances the company’s existing portfolio monitoring solutions, which enable private equity and general partners to unify data from scattered PDFs, Excel files, databases, and other sources to understand and manage their investments in detail. Chronograph says clients will now be bale to connect data from Chronograph, client, and third-party systems into Snowflake’s Data Cloud for analysis and
Keeping up with reporting regulations and requirements has always been a challenge – but as the industry becomes more complex and regulators signal they will continue to increase enforcement, this challenge presents a more significant risk.
FFP, an offshore fiduciary and restructuring practice, has launched a new fund administration business in the Cayman Islands providing a broad range of fund-focused services to hedge funds, private equity firms, venture capital funds and family offices.
Ontra, a specialist in contract automation and intelligence, has launched Ontra Synapse, an AI solution that automates the most critical legal workflows for private markets firms. 
Forge Global Holdings, a private securities marketplace, has expanded its private market data products and solutions offering for institutional asset managers, with the launch of the Forge Private Market Index, a benchmark for actively traded private companies.  The new index leverages Forge’s 13 years of private market trading data and experience to enable investors to better measure their investment returns and gain insights on late-stage, venture-backed companies.   The index includes US domiciled companies that have raised at least one round of primary funding and have higher relative secondary liquidity in the past 12 months, thereby reflecting the actively traded
Accordion, a private equity-focused financial and technology consulting firm, is to acquire Merilytics, a provider of analytics, data management, and business intelligence reporting solutions to businesses around the world.  With private equity sponsors and CFOs putting increased emphasis on data & analytics to drive insights that enable faster value creation decisions, Accordion says the acquisition of Merilytics will be the foundation of is Data & Analytics Practice to strengthen long-term support for its CFO clients.  Financial terms of the private transaction have not disclosed. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Hyderabad, India, Merilytics uses decision sciences and an analytics-based approach
The International Stock Exchange (TISE) has launched a new service for private companies, TISE Private Markets, which provides unlisted companies with access to an integrated set of tailored electronic trading, settlement and registry solutions. “We have conducted significant market research to develop this unique offering whichwe believe will be a particularly attractive alternative for privately owned SMEs considering means to improve the liquidity of their shares and also attract potential new investors,” said Cees Vermaas, CEO of TISE.   Private markets comprise investments in assets not traded on a public exchange or stock market. According to data from McKinsey, total

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