Tech & Evolving World of Alternative Asset Management!

PE Performance on Excel- Rocks You Like a Hurricane! For a Private Equity Fund like any other business Performance Measurement remains the key focal point apart from other important aspects of business like raising the fund, valuations, deal making, compliances etc. It is important for both, the GP’s who would like to choose upon the metric which can project the fund as top quartile and for the LP’s who would like to dig with other metrics to reach to the actual evaluation of their investments and returns, for their investment decisions! The fund performance evaluations hold an equal interest with investment advisers who would be interested in knowing more than just the performance of a particular project but would be interested in comparing these investments with other funds which bring in the complexity as there are challenges like comparing an apple to apple to reach a logical conclusion. The challenges arise due to the size of the different projects being compared, geo...

Deal Management 2.0 In the previous post we had mentioned the challenges that Asset Managers Face as they reach out for the most lucrative deals in the market. The best asset managers are using deep learning technology as a differentiator for tracking, analyzing, and researching deals that they have in their pipelines. Pepper is intimately working with some of the leading deal makers to help them make better deal decisions. In this blog we provide a sampling of the some of the deal solutions that we are helping build for these managers.  Dashboards that provide an overview of the Deal pipeline, providing a clear summary of all the deals, the various stages, the total size, expected close dates, strategies, partners being the critical parameters. This provides senior managers with a quick view of the current status of the pipeline and focuses their energies on the most critical tasks of managing this existing portfolio. From these dashboards the manager can do a deep di...

Alternative Asset Managers with today's business complexities have a few perplexing choices to make to start manage their data intelligently. With limited “point solutions” as options, the choices for building a world class infrastructure for asset manager are difficult. Incredibly many of these solutions were created over two decades ago, for a very different industry. None of these point solutions provide a holistic 360 view of the business of asset management. With limited analytics, outdated user interfaces and zero interoperability they are a management nightmare. An asset manager often spends hours mashing up deal strategy information with valuation data and  cash flows  and combine those with investor data to get the return analytics he needs.  Its often said “Data is the New Oil”. Pepper is the new comprehensive, flexible, scalable cloud based platform for Alternative Asset Managers. Pepper enables the modern alternative asset managers make more intellig...