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eFront & Alternative Investment
Experts

Our Alternative Investments team have first-hand practitioner knowledge of direct and indirect investment across the Private Equity, Venture Capital, Private Credit, Real Estate, and Infrastructure asset classes

Top-Tier Solutions for Alternative Investments

Our Alternative Investment Team combines years of industry leading Project Management expertise with in-depth knowledge of the industry, technological solutions and services.

  • Change leadership, delivering multi-platform solutions to meet complex business requirements for Private Equity, Venture Capital, Private Credit, Real Estate, and Infrastructure investors.
  • Delivery of the eFront and Aladdin Whole Portfolio Solution for Private Credit to a hybrid private and public market asset owner.
  • Process design and solution delivery for front to back-office functions including deal sourcing, trade execution, compliance, accounting and reporting.
  • Extensive knowledge in working with alternative investment data sets for integration and reporting purposes.
  • Rollout of new fund structures and products including tax efficient feeder funds, evergreen funds and other tax efficient structures.
  • The team has developed its knowledge of industry and business functions by working directly for GPs, LPs as well as Investment Managers alike, across business-as-usual an change roles.

Strata's Alternative Investments Team Offers Services along the full Project Cycle

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Strata Implementation

Implementations

Why do you need Implementation Support?

  • A vendor will provide a project team to manage and delivery solutions from the vendor’s perspective.
  • To achieve success, a client should establish an internal project team including a clear governance structure, as well as defined roles and responsibilities with representation covering project, eFront and business expertise.
  • Investing in the right expertise today will ensure the risk of mistakes of increased costs are mitigated.

What Services are provided for Implementations?

  • Programme management tailored to a client’s needs, including programme leadership, project management and PMO services.
  • Support including pre and post project activities. 
  • Pre-contract and Statement of Work advisory services
  • Requirements documentation and scoping across the full suite of eFront functions.
  • Future State design through leveraging best practice and standard approaches. 
  • Data Architecture design to integrate eFront seamlessly into a wider technology stack.
  • Business Process Review support and advisory services.
  • End-to-End support including data migration, testing and training.
Whole Portfolio Solution

Public and Private Market Consolidation / Whole portfolio solution

What is the Public & Private Market Consolidation / Whole Portfolio Solution?

  • Blackrock’s strategic approach to help investors manage operational processes to help investors manage operational processes across the whole portfolio covering public and private instruments.
  • Streamlined and standardised processes to help investors achieve operational scale and consistency.
  • Enhancements across portfolio management, compliance, risk and reporting.
  • Additional options exist including market offerings and combinations of data consolidation and reporting methods.

What Services are provided for a Public & Private Market Consolidation / Whole Portfolio Solution project?

  • We help clients to understand and evaluate potential solutions, including Aladdin’s Whole Portfolio Solution, as well as other market offerings.
  •  eFront setup review to determine. readiness to integrate with the Whole Portfolio Solution or another solution such as data lake with reporting tools. 
  • Scaleable operating model design to maximise operational gains from an integrated eFront and Aladdin (or other) solution.
  • Optimised Data Architecture design to ensure a streamlined, scalable and accessible dataset.
  • Project Management and Implementation services to deliver a Whole Portfolio Solution.
Onboarding and enhancement

Onboarding & Enhancement

Onboarding & Enhancement

  • Launching or investing in new funds, products or asset classes.
  • compliance and Regulatory requirements.
  • Growth through acquisition
  • Opportunities to streamline business functions.
  • In-housing business functions

What Services are provided for Onboarding & Enhancement

  • Scoping and planning including;
    • Requirements documentation, 
    • Operating Model Review,  
    • Solution options and recommendations, 
    • Resourcing and Budgeting.
  • Best Practice approach to new business process design, including aligning new functions into existing processes.
  • End-to-End support including data migration, testing and training.
  • Upgrade guidance and support, including strategy and testing.
  • Project governance and management support tailored to the needs of each client and activity.
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eFront Health Check

  • Is your operating model still fit for purpose?
  • Do expensive solutions contiue to meet business requirements?
  • Are. you maximising the potential of your technology stack?
  • Has process design kept pace with business growth and change?
  • Has process and system knowledge been diluted over time?
  • Is your setup ready for new functionality or connectivity such as the Whole Portfolio Solution?

What Services are provided with an eFront Health Check

  • An eFront Health check is tailored to the specific needs of a client and can cover;
    • Targeted function review, 
    • Operating model review, 
    • Full or part platform review, and 
    • Technology stack review.
  • An eFront Invest Health Check includes;
    • Review client utilisation of the eFront modules and functions that are in place.
    • Review eFront services and modules that are available but not in use and that can enahnce a client’s setup.
    • Ensure optimal setup and integrity of a client’s dataset, including reporting and interfaces.
    • Review user experience and pain points
    • Maturity assessment to review how a client’s setup adheres to standard and ensure future-proven.
Strata eFront and Alternative Advisory

Advisory

Advisory Services

 

  • Do you have a first-class transformation programme in place?
  • Are you prepared for changes to the industry?
  • Does your operational strategy meet current and future needs?

What Advisory Services are Provided?

  • Strategy & Future State Design;
    • Create an operational strategy to support business growth and meet a changing regulatory landscape.
    • Evaluation of current state, design of future state.
    • Outsourcing of Back and Middle Office functions.
  • Technology Stack Review;
    • Current system and data structure and best practice setup.
  • Programme Creation and Management;
    • Tailored to business needs, from designing a governance framework, through to implementing and managing a programme of change.
  • Vendor Selection
    • Business requirements and Scope.
    • Market Offerings, Request for Proposals and Evaluation of Vendors.
  • Readiness Assessment

Meet Our eFront & Alternative Investments Team

Team Leadership

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Nick Rockhold

Head of Practice

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Tayfun Atailer

Senior Manager

Our Alternative Investments team combines yeas of industry leading Project Management expertise with in-depth knowledge of industry, business functions and solutions.

Case Study linked below

  • Change leadership, delivering multi-platform solutions to met complex business requirements (eFront, Yardi, MS Dynamics, etc) for Private Equity, Venture Capital, Private Credit, Real Estate, and Infrastructure investors.
  • Delivery of the eFront and Aladdin Whole Portfolio Solution for Private Credit to a hybrid private and public market asset owner.
  • Process design and solution delivery for front to back-office functions including deal sourcing, trade execution, compliance, accounting and reporting.
  • Successes in delivering enhancements and process design to meet changing regulatory requirements such as AIFMD, MiFID, II, ESG and other tax reporting.
  • Extensive knowledge in working with alternative investment data sets for integration and reporting purposes.
  • Rollout of new fund structures and products including tax efficient feeder funds evergreen funds and other tax efficient structures.
  • The team has developed its knowledge of industry and business functions by working directly for GPs, LPs as well as Investment Managers a like, across business-as-usual and change roles.

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Solutions to enable your business

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Aladdin
  • Enterprise / Risk Implementations
  • M&A integration
  • Accounting & Performance
  • Op Model design + Optimisation
  • Risk, Data & Interfaces
  • Aladdin Data Cloud
  • Aladdin Climate 
  • Aladdin Wealth
  • Operational Alpha
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eFront & Alternative Investments Practice

Driving actionable insights for your business and your clients. Generating competitive advantage through our expertise in Data, Technology and Finance.

  • Advisory
  • Implementation
  • Onboarding & Enhancement
  • Health Check
  • Public & Private Market Consolidation / Whole Portfolio Solution
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Data & Analytics

Bringing to market innovative, value add products and services.

  • Custom Insight Generation

  • Data integration, Modelling & Accelerators

  • POC and prototyping

  • Bespoke tooling
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