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Alternative Investments

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AlternAtive investment opportunities Are in greAt demAnd As investors seek out consistent, risk-Adjusted returns. But greAt demAnd for your Business often plAces greAt demAnd on your Business.The growth opportunity in the alternative investment asset class comes at a time of unprecedented challenges for fund managers. Investors’ appetite for reduced fees coupled with fund managers’ increased operating, risk, and regulatory costs are testing the traditional fund management operating model. Managers continue to seek out innovative process improvements in an effort to reduce risks, reduce costs, and streamline operations.

It is an opportune time for alternative investment funds, but it is also when you need the support of a trustworthy and experienced advisor.

As demands on fund managers increase and evolve, KPMG LLP’s (KPMG) widely respected Alternative Investments (AI) Advisory practice possesses the global strength, knowledge, and reach investment managers need to support their success. With a deep commitment to the AI industry, we focus on providing fund managers and the industry providers who service them with the clarity and confidence to manage the present and build toward the future.

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KPMG’s Alternative Investments Advisory ServicesOur approach to generating value for our clients

Helping fund managers work smarter, grow faster, and compete more effectively

KPMG’s AI Advisory professionals offer a set of services to help fund leaders make business decisions, manage internal operations, and prepare for tomorrow.

Advising on the evolution of the alternatives industry into a more transparent institutional look and feel.

• Business planning and growth strategy: We help investment managers strategically grow and transform their operating model as they expand services, transition business models, acquire or combine with target firms, or become more transparent and institutional.

• Operational strategy: To meet the challenges involved in improving efficiency of operations within the AI industry, we help clients to analyze their current operational and IT infrastructure and focus on identifying opportunities to control costs, to enhance their workforce and organizational structure, to improve processes, and to increase the value generated by their use of technologies. The end result for our clients is increased efficiency of their people, reduced cost structure, and value-generating technology.

Supporting transactions in a fast-paced market.

We are focused on helping clients identify, evaluate, and implement their business strategies in today's complex business landscape. Specializing in assistance with pre-deal planning, target identification, due diligence, and business integration, we approach deals through an investor’s lens, helping firms in the AI industry evaluate their opportunities.

• Financial and operational due diligence: We offer due diligence assistance and related services to help clients assess, plan, and manage their investments, acquisitions, mergers, divestments, and other transactions.

In the AI industry, operational issues are of critical importance and have contributed to the failure of several investment manager businesses in recent history. For asset allocators, mitigating operational risks requires a well-designed operational due diligence team with deep professional experience. Our team of AI professionals has years of experience in alternative investments and understands what it takes to comply with industry leading operational practices. Our quality due diligence assistance helps our clients to identify key risks that may threaten their investment.

kpmg’s Ai Advisory practice specializes in operational due diligence assistance for investors. drawing on our deep industry experience on the buy- and sell-side, we seek to provide investors with insight into the operational aspects of their investment while increasing transparency into potential operational risks.

Strategy


Collaborating with our clients to improve operations and navigate a complex business environment

• Outsourcing advisory: middle- and back-office transformation: Both new and long-standing fund managers can benefit from our assistance in reviewing their business models and processes to identify areas for efficiency improvements. From reviewing front-, middle-, and back-office operational processes. KPMG will provide strategic solutions from performing due diligence and assisting with the selection of third-party service providers to enhancing current processess by offering innovative solutions. KPMG’s AI professionals are well positioned to improve internal business processes and enhance the value of external service relationships.

• IT advisory: Our transformation specialists help fund managers execute operational improvements and capture the strategic value of technology investments. Our goal is to improve the strategic value of your investments in technology by cutting through the complexity of today’s dynamic technology environment.

We have Advisory professionals across the globe providing assistance to our clients in order to:

– Advance their IT maturity to provide efficient and effective IT service management

– Align the IT organization to be a strategic business partner

– Rationalize complex application portfolios to better align the services provided by IT with the strategic direction of the organization

Management Consulting

STRATEGY

PORTFOLIO, PROGRAM, AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT

LEADERSHIP AND CHANGE

VALUE DELIVERY

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DETAILEDDESIGN BUILD IMPLEMENT IMPROVE

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TECHNOLOGY

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ACTIVITY GROUPSVDF 2.0 phases are composed of ACTIVITY GROUPS that deliver outcomes across the journey

Strategic &Financial Ambition

Business ModelStrategy

Operating ModelStrategy

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RequirementsManagement

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KPMG’s Value Delivery FrameworkThe below is KPMG’s framework and methodology that is composed of phases supporting an evolving and agile transformation journey.

VDF 2.0 phases are composed of ACTIVITY GROUPS that deliver outcomes across the journey


– Manage risk and compliance through supplier management, data integrity, security, privacy, governance, and controls.

Cyber-attacks and unauthorized data leakage are growing threats to alternative investment fund managers and industry providers who service them.• Cybersecurity: We can assist organizations with the application of appropriate

information security measures to help provide ongoing confidentiality, integrity, availability, and protection of their most sensitive data assets. Our approach to Cybersecurity – Prevent, Improve, Detect, Respond – is designed to be simple and effective, and most importantly aligned with your business needs.At KPMG we understand that cybersecurity is not just a technology problem – it is a holistic one:

• Your people need ready access to critical business applications and they need it everywhere, anytime via all their devices;

• Your vendors need real-time access to your systems to perform and to deliver their services;

• Your investors want to know their data is safe without sacrificing service quality and investment performance; and

• Your regulators need to know you are complying with their guidelines and expectations.

Supporting effective enterprise-wide compliance processes to adapt to evolving regulatory complexity

• Regulatory and Compliance impact assessment: We provide assistance to fund managers to interpret new regulatory obligations, assess associated risks, understand their practical application, and align the operating model to meet compliance requirements. We help fund managers make an objective assessment of their current compliance framework by performing a set of specific procedures to test the effectiveness of their compliance rules.

• Regulatory reporting: As funds are required to provide increased transparency and reporting to various regulatory bodies, we help ensure they have sufficient resources, technology, and know-how to comply.

• Process improvement for expense allocations: With the changing economic and regulatory environment, we are helping fund advisors examine this allocation methodology logic and budgeting process in order to achieve highly efficient structures with strong controls by leveraging the use of sophisticated technologies.

KPMG’s team of AI professionals have worked with asset managers of all sizes to develop a streamlined process for regulatory reporting. Starting with a thorough review of the business requirements, our engagement teams follow a robust process to help design and implement a strategy for all of your regulatory reporting needs.

Who we serveKPMG’s AI Advisory practice professionals have real-world experience spanning various fund types, structures, and asset classes throughout an alternative manager’s life cycle. We service fund managers of all types and the industry providers who service them:

• Hedge funds

• Real estate funds

• Private equity funds

• Fund of funds

• Fund administrators, technology companies, prime brokers, and counterparties

Risk Consulting


By the numbersKPMG member firms provide market-leading professional services to alternative funds worldwide.

• 10,000 global professionals

• 800 global partners

• 60 major alternative investment fund centers

• 3,000 U.S. alternative investment fund clients

• 20,000 financial services clients, the largest industry presence of all major accounting firms

• Serving 25 percent of Fortune 1000 clients Source: Audit Analytics and Fortune 2015

What sets us apartWhy the AI industry should consider KPMG

Alternative managers are looking outside of their organization to engage a trusted advisor who understands current industry practices, anticipates impending challenges, and connects strategy to long-term business goals. The credentials and capabilities of KPMG’s AI Advisory practice have made us the trusted advisor of choice in the alternative investments sector:

• C-suite experience and perspective: A number of our AI Advisory professionals have held leadership roles at alternative fund managers and industry providers that service them. We draw on the firm’s extensive subject-matter knowledge to deploy experienced leaders who understand your perspective and can provide the insights you need to tackle challenges and seize opportunities.

• Deep industry insight: With a constant eye on what is happening across the industry, we provide clients with the vision to manage strategic, operational, IT, regulatory, risk, economic, and competitive challenges.

• Global reach: Through the global network of KPMG member firms, our professionals can tap into the local knowledge of individuals globally to gain a big-picture view of the global business environment. Our AI Advisory professionals worldwide have the financial market and business acumen to provide in-depth, valuable analysis of trends to inform you as you choose the best course of action for your fund and investors.

• Outstanding client service: Forming enduring relationships based on integrity, objectivity, responsiveness, open communication, personalized attention, and partner involvement is a high priority for us. We work with you in a collaborative, hands-on fashion to deliver the targeted services you need to run your fund, in line with your current operating reality and budget.


ABout KPMG’S AI ADvISoRy PRACtICeWithin KPMG, the AI Advisory group is the leading provider of services for the alternative investments market. Our objectives are to integrate, align and deliver our service offering across all advisory disciplines and to satisfy the needs of both alternative investment fund managers and those industry providers who service them.


Meet our practice leaders

J e f f R e y K o L L I NJeffrey is the lead principal for the AI Advisory practice at KPMG, where he focuses the firm’s resources in the alternative investments market, as well as coordinating the business development initiatives for the AI “go-to-market” strategy. Jeffrey also serves as the lead advisory partner on several of the firm’s leading AI clients, where he delivers the KPMG’s advisory products to his clients such as strategy, operational transformation, technology solutions, deal advisory, and regulatory change management.

e D W A R D t e D e S C H IEdward is a Principal in KPMG’s Alternative Investment practice and is responsible for the Northern California Region. He possesses over 35 years of diverse buy and sell side financial industry experience in alternative investments, asset management, finance, trading, regulation and compliance and all operating infrastructure components. He specializes in business creation and development, business transformation, establishing and maintaining strategic industry relationships and performing senior project management roles for business owners and executive management.

C A R L v e R S e L L ACarl is a managing director in KPMG’s Advisory group and has more than 30 years of professional experience on both the buy- and sell-side in finance, operations, and consulting in the alternative investments and financial services sector. His focus is on C-level relationship management for client engagements and advisory services and business development.

K e v I N G o L D S t e I NKevin is a director in KPMG’s Management Consulting – AI Advisory practice. With more than 20 years of experience creating, selling, and delivering solutions in the financial services industry, Kevin specializes in providing business strategy, technology, operational, and cybersecurity consulting to the C-suite at investment managers and service providers in the alternative investments industry.

D A v I D B e R G e RDavid is a director in KPMG’s Management Consulting – AI Advisory practice. With more than 10 years of experience in the financial services industry, David focuses on middle and back office transformation, operations and regulatory consulting for alternative investment companies, including, hedge funds, private equity, venture capital and securitized asset funds.

Contact us

Learn more about how KPMG’s AI Advisory practice can help you navigate the most complex business issues affecting your investment and fund decisions.

Jeffrey KollinPrincipal, Alternative [email protected]

Edward TedeschiPrincipal, Alternative Investments [email protected]

Carl VersellaManaging Director, [email protected]

Kevin GoldsteinDirector, [email protected]

David BergerDirector, [email protected]

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