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eFront for Alternative Investments
The most comprehensive
suite of solutions for the industry
Appropriate for:
Alternative investment participants can use eFront
to save time and make better decisions by streamlining
and automating their investment processes.
General partners
Limited partners
Fund administrators
Fund advisors
Overview
FrontInvest
Operational execution for firms managing
or investing in alternative assets has
become more complex. Investment
strategies continue to change along with
the regulatory landscape. Solutions to help
these organizations manage their businesses,
such as those from eFront, are also evolving.
eFront uses a unique approach of blending
deep industry knowledge with a passion for
technology to bring the most comprehensive
and flexible solutions to market.
FrontInvestTM consists of various modules to
manage front office (deal flow, fund raising,
CRM, investor relations, reporting), middle
office (fund and portfolio management) and
back office (accounting) processes for firms
directly and indirectly investing in private
equity, real estate and more. Thus, it is
appropriate for general and limited partners
and for firms managing these functions on
behalf of their clients. FrontInvest seamlessly
integrates to eFront’s investor and investee
portals and to the analytics platform.
eFront’s web-based solutions suppor t
multiple asset classes across the complete
investment lifecycle while offering the highest
levels of configuration to suit the most unique
needs. The purpose-built solutions support
the entire investment process: from raising
a fund, managing deal flow and obtaining
information from investments, to monitoring
performance, analyzing and repor ting on
asset, fund and portfolio data, and providing
relevant data to investors.
Manage the following
asset classes:
Private equity
Real estate
Hedge fund
investments
Infrastructure
eFront’s alternative investments solutions
Investee Portal
FrontAnalytics
A private equity company’s or real estate
property’s detailed financial information can
be directly provisioned to the asset owner’s
FrontInvest deployment. This streamlines
the asset owner’s process for obtaining and
validating this information and facilitates its
analysis—all within the FrontInvest platform.
This one-of-a-kind business solution offers
dynamic dashboards and forecasting
capabilities purpose-built for the alternative
asset industry. It empowers users to make
future investment decisions optimized for
their risk and exposure mandates while
transparently repor ting performance to
investors.
Investor Portal
FrontAnalyticsTM dashboards automatically
refresh when filters such as sector, currency,
manager and vintage are selected. Dozens
of pre-built libraries and charts are available,
such as IRR and TVPI history, J-curves and
liquidity calendars. Users can also forecast
fund and portfolio performance using models
based on historical cash flows. Investors can
run “what if ” scenarios to evaluate the impact
of new investments and economic factors on
an existing portfolio.
Quar terly repor ts and other information
can be securely shared with investors such
as limited partners and fund managers who
require access to this data. Information
residing in FrontInvest can be formatted into
reports or made available via dashboards
for access and analysis by investors. eFront
also offers a pure SaaS-based investor portal
called FundMagicTM.
Pevara
Pevara TM, a SaaS-based solution wholly
owned by eFront, provides limited partners
benchmarks to compare the performance
of their private equity funds to similar funds.
Data can be contributed to the Pevara
database from an investor’s FrontInvest
system and the benchmark data can be
imported into and used within FrontAnalytics.
see a company that
finally gets it. Our
decision to partner
with eFront has
been an extremely
good experience
and that begins
and ends with the
product and the
team.
”
–Michael Simmons,
Neuberger Berman
Technology
eFront products can be deployed in-house
or via a hosted model. In order to leverage
existing models, Microsoft Excel can be used
directly within the platform. The products
have been architected to handle the largest
data sets and are extensible so that clients
can configure or even customize them to
meet their most unique needs.
About eFront
eFront is a leading software provider of end-to-end solutions dedicated to the financial industry with
a recognized expertise in alternative investments and enterprise risk management. eFront’s solutions
serve more than 300 customers in 38 countries, including companies in the private equity, real estate
investment, banking and insurance sectors. eFront’s primary product suites, FrontInvest™, FrontAnalytics™,
Pevara, FrontCRM™ and FrontERM™, offer tightly integrated solutions for streamlining the management
of alternative investments and corporate risk. Founded in 1999, eFront services clients worldwide from
offices in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America. For more information visit www.efront.com
and follow us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/efront.
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