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Our Technology
Fund administrators like EFSI are increasingly investing in technology to better serve their clients. We have partnered with four firms which provide cutting edge technology so that we can offer a smoother service with more accurate data, quicker, to our institutional clients.
Cascata Solutions
Cascata Solutions is a specialized digital software and services provider for back-office private equity waterfall, fee and expense management and shadow waterfall / performance-fee verification for investors and fund managers. The solution assists both traditional private equity fund and hedge fund administrators with an emerging private equity book of business achieve a modern, technology-enabled operating model to keep pace with fund/client growth and achieve operational scale and efficiency without the dependency of Excel-based work and increasingly scarce and hard to retain staff. At the heart of the Cascata solution is the digitization of all pertinent fund, performance, investment cost, and legal information including Net Asset Value (NAV), cash flows from inception, carried interest, fees, expenses, LPA terms and investor specific side letters.
Cascata’s waterfall innovation delivers the most critical features demanded by the industry’s service providers:
- Purpose-built platform and intuitive workflows for fund accountants’ operation, ease of use and 100% self-administration
- Full-formula transparency of all critical system-generated calculations in an Excel model output with 100% traceability
- Extensive waterfall model library with easy to use ‘building blocks’ as well as the availability of a conditional, user-defined carried interest calculation engine to accommodate complex and bespoke waterfall steps.
- Standardized private equity waterfall and application of fund accounting best practices
- Simple and standardized Excel data import/export templates as well as an open API for tighter system and data integration to your accounting systems
- Support of Whole-Fund and deal-by-deal arrangements with bottom-up carried interest calculations, e.g. by deal and investor-level
- Carried interest scenario analysis and forecasting capability leveraging digitalized fund info on system.
Learn more at https://www.cascata-solutions.com/.
Conduit Security
Conduit Security protects assets from wire fraud through proven processes and our simple software platform. Wire fraud is a huge, and growing, problem with over $43 billion reported stolen since 2016! Investment managers are a top target for criminals. Their transactions are frequent, large dollar amounts, and tend to be urgent and time-sensitive. The recipients are varied: LP redemptions, portfolio investments, and vendor payments may be handled by different teams but face the same risks.
Our platform, Conduit, provides workflow automation and risk intelligence to finance teams to identify risky transactions and ensure best practices are followed consistently. Our solution was tailor-made for busy teams – training is quick and no additional time is required to process payments.
Pacific Fund Systems (PFS-Paxus)
PFS-Paxus is a fully integrated and multi-currency accounting platform which provides clients with straight-through-processing and complete transparency. Designed specifically for alternative investment fund administration, PFS-Paxus integrates into one system all the processes usually performed on multiple systems, including securities portfolio accounting, profit allocation, advanced fee calculations and a share registry/transfer agency systems. Benefits of this approach include increased efficiency and scalability, the ability to support complex investment structures, reduced risk of error, and a simplified IT infrastructure.
A secure web-based portal, PFS Connect, is utilized to deliver robust reporting to investment managers and investors. PFS Connect is tightly integrated within the core PFS-Paxus accounting platform, allowing our fund administration team to maintain and control the web access functions from within the core PFS-Paxus application.
Hedge Funds and Fund of Funds
EFSI utilizes Paxus, a fully integrated accounting and reporting platform, providing comprehensive and multi-currency investment management solutions that support all aspects of fund portfolio management. With a true general ledger tightly integrated at the core of the system, all investment activity is recorded to provide complete audit trails for efficient drill down analysis, and proper auditing and reporting. The Paxus platform provides fund managers with accurate information, transparency and foresight into a fund’s performance, and facilitates fee calculations, investor allocations, financial and account statement generation, and other reporting functionality.
Private Equity Funds and Fund of Funds
EFSI utilizes the Paxus accounting and reporting platform to support its Private Equity service offering, and to communicate with investment managers to provide timely reports and analysis. The Paxus platform’s integrated investment lifecycle and allocation capabilities provide EFSI with a unique advantage in servicing private equity funds. Paxus is scalable as the number and size of the portfolio investments grow, resulting in a cost effective service model to support NAV calculations, allocations, performance reports, investor capital statements, and capital call notices.
Tenor Digital
Tenor Digital is an innovative technology-driven firm specializing in private debt loan monitoring, scenario analysis, and forecasting. Leveraging technology and data analytics expertise, Tenor Digital provides market participants with real-time insights and predictive capabilities to optimize loan portfolios and make informed investment decisions.
WealthBlock
WealthBlock in conjunction with EFSI is capital raising & investor management platform for private investment firms such as Hedge Funds, Venture Capital, Private Equity and Real Estate Funds. Designed to accommodate various capital raising processes, WealthBlock integrates into one system all the workflows and supporting features to streamline the entire process of capital raising and post-raise investor management.
- All-in-one Workflows:
- Seamless investor outreach and deal presentation
- Streamlined investor onboarding and compliance checks
- Digital subscription E-signing & online payment/capital call
- Flexible investor reporting & communication
- All-in-one Feature Stack:
- Build-in Features: CRM, Data-Room, Offer Builder, Investor Journey Builder, Questionnaire Builder, Email Automation Builder, Engagement Analytics, Report Builder, Transaction Manager, API & Webhooks
- Integrated Features: E-signature Template Builder, KYC/AML/accreditation checks, Video Conferencing, Appointment Scheduler, Cap Table Management, Tokenization, Online Payment
WealthBlock’s technology was used to power the Institutional LP Network (the “ILPN”) to facilitate deal sourcing and investment processing between 1000+ institutional LPs and 3000+ fund/deal sponsors.