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Page 1: FrontInvest Alternatives téléchargement... · Client Testimonial “We purchased FrontInvest in 2004. For many years now, eFront has successfully supported our activity growth.”

Performance through Innovation

Alternative InvestmentsSolution for Fund of Funds

FrontInvest Alternatives

For more information: [email protected]

Private EquityReal EstateInfrastructureHedge Funds

Page 2: FrontInvest Alternatives téléchargement... · Client Testimonial “We purchased FrontInvest in 2004. For many years now, eFront has successfully supported our activity growth.”

FrontInvestTM Alternatives

Key benefits■ Solutions delivering best practices

of the alternative asset industry

■ Multiple asset class solutions

■ Solutions covering the range of business activities from investment teams to accounting

■ Specific solutions for venture capital, private equity, mezzanine, or any combination thereof

■ Operational and business risk management

■ Elimination of time consuming, error-prone manual work

■ Centralization and management of all investments related documents

■ Tracking of deals and due diligence processes

FrontInvest is a Web based solution offering an integrated platform for solutions covering front-, middle-, and back-office operations across the alternative asset industry.

Coverage for Each Alternative Asset Class

FrontInvest is designed to offer an integrated platform to handle the business operations of investors, from due diligence, to operational controls, and to the creation of account postings. FrontInvest comes with a standard configuration developed from alternative asset industry best practices. This standard configuration is flexible and enables clients to customize to bespoke specifications, and facilitates the incorporation of each partnership’s added business requirements.

FrontInvest provides investors with portfolio management tools across a variety of asset classes, including private equity, real estate, and infrastructure funds, as well as the ability to track underlying portfolio company investments and portfolio-wide exposures to sectors or individual corporations.

Tailor Complex Fund Structures

FrontInvest manages the most complicated private equity rollup structures and can capture master-feeder fund structures and complex organizational management, such as management companies and special purpose vehicles, as well as, securitized and unitized funds.

FrontInvest can be built to automate daily business transactions such as management fees and carried interests, and the system enables the monitoring of contributions and distributions to and from investors.

Modular Approach

eFront recognizes that each client is unique and therefore FrontInvest’s modular architecture enables each client to choose (mix and match) the solutions that will ultimately be deployed to fulfill bespoke functional requirements.

Simplify the Front-Office ProcessShare Information with CRM and Document Management

FrontInvest enables the centralization of contact information and documents. Additionally, any user can quickly view business interactions, meetings, and tasks, across an entire organization, aiding in the streamlining of business processes, such as investor relations, pipeline management, and portfolio management. To avoid the duplication of contact information, and the duplication of manual effort, FrontInvest can be synchronized with Microsoft Outlook and Exchange.

Manage the Deal Flow and Analyze Target Investments

The Deal Flow module enables the management of the investment pipeline, allowing each partnership to track any number of offerings and customize any number of pipelines. Clients can replicate their real-world business activities and the general day-to-day due diligence processes, such as managing the stages of investment review; tracking comparable analysis and performance over time; tracking sources and uses in tables; managing underwriting cases and terms; managing contact and relational management information, tasks, and reminders; scheduling meetings; and generating pipeline reports.

Pipeline reports can be customized and can be displayed as online dashboards reporting portfolio positions in real time by asset class, vintage, strategy, or any other criteria.

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Solution for Fund of Funds

Key benefits■ Master-feeder management

■ Unlimited levels of nesting funds

■ Transparent portfolio view

■ Transparent subscribers consolidation

■ Performance enhancement through powerful cash flow forecasting

■ Improvement of Investor Relations

■ Ability to build in-depth solutions for portfolio management

■ Management of correspondence with limited partners

■ Management of portfolio company data

■ Flexibility to roll out specific solutions without any software development

Client Testimonial

“We purchased FrontInvest in 2004. For many years now, eFront has successfully supported our activity growth.”

Monitor Cash Flow to Pilot the RisksRisk Monitoring

FrontInvest business solutions enable the automation of certain business processes and make use of best practice solutions, thereby contributing to monitoring and reducing operational risk. With its cash flow forecasting abilities, described below, FrontInvest Alternatives enables forecasting simulations, thus further reducing business risk.

Investors can view positions and track portfolio foreign exchange exposures according to industry, investment type, or any other available category. Furthermore performance reports can be built benchmarking portfolio investments against indexes. Additionally, operational reports measuring business metrics, such as measuring the duration of each task, or time between stages of review, can aid in assessing pain points in a client’s pipeline management. Moreover, allocation and constraint rules can be tracked to assess compliance risk.

Cash Flow Forecasting

With FrontInvest’s Cash Flow module, it is possible to forecast cash flow by asset allocation and improve potential performance by monitoring the J–curve and building liquidity options in an illiquid market. Cash flow forecasting can be done utilizing scenarios, foreign exchange models, and crisis or stress scenarios, thus providing a variety of tools to measure the impact of potential events on future cash flows.

FrontInvest’s Cash Flow module can improve asset allocation by simulating the impact of new investments. Therefore, overall performance can be improved by building and defining potential liquidity options on current and future investments.

Manage Day-to-Day OperationsFund Raising and Investor Relations

FrontInvest enables each general partner to monitor the probability that a potential limited partner will commit to a fund. The fund raising cycle can be standardized, as can form letters and compliance rules. Additionally, by using a system across asset classes, limited partners and general partners can track portfolio positions and performance across multiple fund vehicles.

FrontInvest can tailor complex investment operations including direct and fund investments, complex loan structures, and real estate specific investments. In addition, it can track co-investments and co-investment positions.

Performance Monitoring

FrontInvest offers a set of dashboards for managing directors where real-time information can be displayed for analysis and reporting. FrontInvest’s reporting capability facilitates ongoing performance management and reports. At any level of the investment structure performance metrics can be calculated and customized, such as IRRs with fees or net of fees.

Facilitate Back-Office OperationsGenerate Accounting Entries

FrontInvest’s Accounting module handles clients’ business transactions and the operations of an accounting team. The Accounting module allows the concurrent implementation of multiple charts of accounts in order to comply with respective national and international standards.

FrontInvest offers a multi-currency solution capable of automating business transactions. All accounting entries can be generated automatically by FrontInvest or can be inputted manually. Accounting entries can then be reviewed, and validated. Furthermore, a set of accounting reports can then be generated automatically.

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FrontInvest’s solutions are specifically designed for alternative asset investors. Quality and performance are essential in the alternative asset industry. To that end, FrontInvest aids principal investment firms stay abreast of investor demands, external regulations, and the competition. FrontInvest solutions are applicable to private equity, real estate investments, fund of funds, and fund administrators.

FrontInvest Technical InfrastructureFrontInvest is a pure Web solution, accessible through Internet browsers, and uses standard Internet protocols. The underlying architecture is a sophisticated platform and makes use of Microsoft.NET software, an industry-standard platform, and draws upon relational databases (Oracle or MS SQL). FrontInvest can easily be installed at client sites or hosted by eFront.

Other Available SolutionsFrontInvest Alternatives for Fund of Funds is one of the many solutions offered by FrontInvest Alternatives. Other solutions include:

■ FrontInvest Alternatives for General Partners investing in direct private equity ■ FrontInvest Alternatives for Limited Partners/Pension and Sovereign Funds ■ FrontInvest Alternatives for Real Estate Investments■ FrontInvest Alternatives for Infrastructure Investments■ FrontInvest Alternatives for Fund Administrators■ FrontInvest Alternatives for Fund of Hedge Funds■ FrontInvest Alternatives Cash Flow and Risk Management

FrontInvest Alternatives

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About eFront

eFront is a leading software provider of solutions dedicated to the financial industry with a recognized expertise in Alternative Investments and Risk Management. eFront’s solutions serve over 200 customers in more than 30 countries, including major companies in the Private Equity, Real-Estate Investment, Banking, and Insurance sectors. Founded in 1999, eFront has offices in New York, Montreal, London, Paris (HQ), Dubai, Hong Kong, Bonn, and Jersey. eFront is a public company listed on NYSE Euronext.

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