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SOLUTIONS FOR DISTRIBUTION PARTNERS

The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted the portfolio diversifying investment (PDI) industry into high gear to meet demand for digital remote working and process management solutions. This demand has driven industry distribution partners that offer PDI products to their investors (wire-house firms, regional broker dealers, IBDs, financial institutions, RIAs and family offices) to review and adopt modern subscription automation technology solutions.

Straight-Through Processing Solves Business Problems

Over the years the PDI industry has shouldered the burden of paper-intensive, manual processes with multiple parties enriching trade data and signing off on the trade from various locations.  Remote working and social distancing have made some of these workflows unsustainable.

Straight-through-processing (STP) solutions automate front, middle and back-office functions, delivering a faster subscription process by eliminating manual touch points and errors that can cause a trade that is not in good order (“NIGO”).  STP solutions that help distribution partners solve both new and age-old inefficiencies are now flourishing with investments being made by program sponsors.  What once may have taken several days can now be handled in hours.  A robust STP infrastructure will allow distribution partners to waste less time, locating data faster and answering questions quicker and enabling a focus to business growth.

Benefits of Straight-Through Processing

  • Increase sales productivity

  • Improve data / real-time error check

  • Enhance trade status transparency

  • Reduce costs

  • Mitigate compliance/operations risk

  • Improve client/advisor experience

  • Eliminate paper processing

  • Automate to-do reminders

  • Keep data secure 

  • Speed order processing

The Platform
Technologies

STP platforms connect all industry stakeholders, helping them navigate the full alternative investment life-cycle. Origination of the investment is where the benefits of these advanced technologies are the most apparent. A key value proposition is the ability to program the workflow for various trade types into the platform, improving operational oversight, security, compliance and privacy.

FIND A PROVIDER

The IPA is committed to bringing together asset managers, distribution partners, and industry service providers who are dedicated to driving the industry forward through technology, innovation, and transparency. We are pleased to feature a list for your evaluation of reputable IPA members who provide straight-through processing solutions.

FULL SERVICE FUND ADMINISTRATION AND INVESTOR SERVICES SUPPORT

Great Lakes Fund Solutions serves as an outsourced investor services back-office for public and private alternative investment programs. Our clients create funds that invest in real estate, oil/gas exploration, equipment leases, commodity futures, opportunity zones, 1031s and other assets. Sponsors then sell their products through a network of independent broker/dealers & RIAs. We maintain all history, reporting and information relating to an investment via our proprietary, web-based portal. Wherever there is an Internet connection, the Investor, the Advisor/Broker and the Sponsor can see reports and process transactions. Since 1982 we have been crafting investor servicing outsourcing arrangements that allow our clients to concentrate on raising and managing money.

AIX IS THE ONLY INDUSTRY-WIDE ENTERPRISE SOLUTION FOR ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS

AIX is an end-to-end digital platform purpose-built to improve the processes related to buying, owning, and selling alternative investments. AIX’s technology reduces friction, mitigates risk, and creates value across all alternative investing stakeholder groups – wealth managers, asset managers, custodians, transfer agents, and fund administrators. By evolving beyond documents to make data the connective tissue between alternative investment players, AIX makes it easier to conduct business and accelerate industry growth.

ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS IN GOOD ORDER WITH ALTIGO

Alternative investment transactions continue to be lengthy, manual, and paper-laden, leading to NIGO errors, security risks, and operational ineiciencies that drive up costs and discourage wealth managers and investors from considering alternative investments. Altigo is a electronic trade processing platform from WealthForge designed to improve the alternative investment experience for broker-dealers, registered investment advisors, asset managers, and their investors. Altigo provides an intuitive front-end for reps to quickly initiate a subscription through an online intelligent interview. Once both the rep and investor have executed the subscription documents with either wet or electronic signature, the firm can follow the existing process for reviewing and processing the transaction. No system integration, new technology resources or change management is required.

PRIVATE MARKET HUB FOR WEALTH AUTOMATES THE ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS OPERATIONS LIFECYCLE

Broadridge has introduced a cloud-based end-to-end solution to automate middle-back office Alternatives operations. Our solution sits at the intersection of wealth firms, funds and administrators to standardize data connectivity and aggregate position, valuation, distribution, capital call and redemption data into a centralized view of transaction flows. PMH for Wealth is backed by a customized and configurable rules engine, alerts, confirmations, “four eyes” approvals, notifications, and integration to feed directly into a firms books and records. Our centralized, digital dashboard provides operations teams with a single source of truth including business intelligence reporting and transparency into a real-time, common data source. By enhancing connections between multiple industry participants across the value chain, we can help accelerate time to investment, reduce manual processing, risk and capital charges and help firms easily scale operations to handle increasing volumes of transactions to match the industry’s growing demand.

REALBLOCKS ALLOWS FOR QUICK, EFFICIENT, & GLOBAL FUNDRAISING 

RealBlocks is a turnkey custom white-label primary fund and feeder fund platform that allows real estate and alternative fund managers to automate the on-boarding of investors and connect with distributors worldwide to accelerate fundraising efforts. Our online solution allows fund managers to tap into new markets and raise capital globally while greatly enhancing their fund administration capabilities. RealBlocks Private Securities, Inc. is a FINRA-registered broker-dealer, and RealBlocks Investment Advisors is a registered investment advisor.

A CLOUD NATIVE SALES, DUE DILIGENCE, AND COMPLIANCE SOLUTION THAT INTEGRATES AND SCALES WITH YOUR FIRM

VENTURE.co is a cloud native, white-label solution for sales, due diligence, and compliance that intuitively connects alternative investment workflow stakeholders with a secure web-based process.

VENTURE.co offers customized, advanced integration and engineering capabilities to meet the specific needs of our clients and their partners. The software may be licensed by managing broker-dealers, retail broker-dealers, RIAs, family offices and sponsors.