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Empowering Private Market Investors with Valuation & Scenario Management Solutions

Harnessing Forward-Looking Insights and Workflows

Private market investors often grapple with questions regarding asset valuations and potential impacts of market fluctuations. Charles River Development offers a comprehensive solution for Private Markets that allows investors to streamline their valuation processes. By seamlessly connecting Excel spreadsheets, investors can conduct valuations at scale and perform custom scenario analyses across funds and assets. The innovative ModelSync technology facilitates a smooth valuation workflow, enabling portfolio managers to aggregate financial data effectively. Through Charles River's solution, investors can produce interactive dashboards and visual insights to gain valuable and timely information for making informed investment decisions.

Unleashing Private Market Insights with Trustworthy Data

A significant challenge in the private markets realm is the fragmentation and lack of transparency in investment data. Charles River's solution consolidates and standardizes investment data into a centralized platform, bridging data silos and facilitating faster insights. By breaking down disconnected business processes and systems, investors can enhance response times to LP queries and improve overall efficiency. The solution empowers users to manage valuation processes seamlessly from asset to fund level, ensuring transparency and consistent internal processes. Additionally, the platform offers a dynamic database to store and update global assumptions, alongside dashboard capabilities to visualize portfolio valuations and scenario results in real-time. Automated valuation reports by investment, Fund, SPV, and Portfolio further enhance data-driven decision-making.

Elevating Capabilities with Valuation and Scenario Management Framework

Charles River's Valuation and Scenario Management framework addresses key challenges faced by private market investors. By institutionalizing valuation oversight and transparency, the solution ensures robust controls, approvals, and auditability for every valuation. The platform enables dynamic event-based valuation and scenario analysis within a single interface, facilitating risk management and accelerated investment decisions. Automated valuation reports provide comprehensive insight into selected valuation track records, empowering investors with accurate and up-to-date information. With these capabilities, investors can navigate the complexities of private markets more effectively and drive informed investment strategies.

Empowering Private Market Investment Decisions with Charles River Development

Solving Complex Data Challenges for Private Markets

Charles River for Private Markets, formerly known as Mercatus, offers an advanced investment management solution tailored for institutions venturing into Private Credit, Private Equity, Real Estate, Infrastructure, and Funds. The platform is cloud-based, providing the necessary flexibility and centralization for handling investment data efficiently. In the private markets realm, data management can be intricate - often residing in various spreadsheets and disconnected systems, making it resource-intensive and error-prone to extract valuable insights for decision-making. Charles River for Private Markets simplifies this by consolidating all data, ensuring transparency and data quality from fund to asset levels. The solution seamlessly integrates data, people, and processes, facilitating smoother operations scalability. Its frameworks address key data challenges in Deal Management, Portfolio Monitoring, Asset and ESG Management, and Valuation Management.

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Seizing the T+1 Opportunity with Charles River Development

Unlocking Growth with T+1 Settlement Cycle

The transition to a T+1 settlement cycle in the US, Canada, and Mexico presents investment managers with a unique opportunity to enhance their organizational growth by implementing various process improvements. Embracing automation is the initial step towards facilitating internal workflow enhancements necessary for compliance with T+1 regulations. Leveraging technology-driven solutions provided by third-party vendors can further streamline efficiencies across trading operations, ensuring better risk management and addressing funding challenges inherent in a shorter settlement cycle. By implementing these systems and processes, organizations can not only mitigate risks but also strengthen client service offerings.

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Unlocking Private Market Insights with Charles River Portfolio Monitoring

Consolidating and Normalizing Investment Data

Investing in Private Markets can be challenging due to disconnected data sources and inflexible systems. Charles River's Portfolio Monitoring solution helps by consolidating data from various sources, such as fund administrators and spreadsheets. This allows for better data quality, custom calculations, workflow, and reporting, freeing up resources for strategic decision-making.

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Empowering Investment Managers with Charles River's Cloud-Based Investment Management Solution

Performance and Scale

Charles River's Investment Management Solution (IMS) built on a cloud-based open architecture platform offers exceptional performance and scalability. The platform can efficiently handle large transaction volumes without compromising speed or reliability. Utilizing predictive and prescriptive analytics, Charles River IMS ensures high availability and resilience across all functions even during volatile market conditions. On-demand provisioning empowers users to preview and test new capabilities seamlessly, enhancing agility. The scalability feature supports business growth into new geographies, asset classes, and expansions through acquisitions.

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Revolutionizing Wealth Management with Charles River Wealth Management Solution

Empowering Wealth Managers and Advisors

Charles River's Wealth Management Solution offers a sophisticated platform that equips wealth managers, private banks, and financial advisors with essential tools to support both discretionary and non-discretionary private wealth products. This solution enhances mobility, allowing professionals to efficiently manage their book of business with ease. The comprehensive multi-asset/multi-currency functionality of the platform enables tailored portfolio strategies like separately managed accounts (SMAs) and unified managed accounts (UMAs). Furthermore, it supports the entire investment lifecycle, encompassing model management, portfolio management, trading, compliance, reporting, and position-keeping capabilities within a single, integrated solution.

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