Tech & Evolving World of Alternative Asset Management!

Redefine Alternative Asset Management The key pillars on which this business is built are (a) Investors, (b) Deals & (c) Effective Fund management over the life of the fund. The expertise of the Alternative asset managers lies in managing these three fundamental constituents of the business and his success depends on how well he copes and competes to get these key drivers of the business right. He weaves all his strategies and the various functions around these three fundamental pillars. This central theme and these fundamental drivers are the fuel for any alternative asset manager’s growth engine in his business! Easily the most important aspect of the business is to have the right long term investors who believe in your business. For early stage managers it is often difficult to establish trust with Investors.   Fund allocators across the globe have shown lesser confidence in the alternative asset class and even less so with a new alt asset manager. Som...

Data is the New Oil “Data is the New Oil” . Oil Powered Industrial revolution, transformed our lives adding a new dimension to the way we live in today’s world  Data is poised to power Information revolution and we are witnessing another transformation adding again a new dimension to humanity, redefining the way we are making decisions and the way we would make decisions in the times to come. Sounds good and fancy too! But how does it really relate to me as an alternative asset manager? The question is very pertinent and calls for a deliberation. Today data is produced at a feverish pace at an exponential rate of 4400% of what was being produced a decade back. This rate of rate of producing data too is growing exponentially and we would witness unimaginable amounts of data that is going to be produced. What we process today? Less than 3% of the total produced data!! This is huge gap and points to a big opportunity, just imagine if we could optimize the data capture and ...

As the alternative assets gather critical mass and readies to explode the Private Equity firms are into a phase of transformation. External factors are creating more competitive deal environment challenging & crumbling the traditional models of investment sourcing and execution. Internally it amounts to increased pressures & responsibilities on the GP’s of reporting more information and more often to the LP’s who are becoming more and more demanding on information sharing. Today the funds have become more complex and the LP’s are now seeing themselves in a greater role of involvement in the business and demand transparencies of much higher levels, asking for more live relevant data on demand and in time. Not to forget that data has a shelf life and its relevance short lived. There are reasons to this behavioral  transformation of LPs. Today investor can be LP in the fund & can also be co-investing into the asset along with the GPs directly, the line...

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...