Reporting software

What the AI?!... Montagu

Partner Daniel Fischer believes there are AI opportunities to be developed in risk management workflows

ERM and Greenomy join forces

The sustainability consultancy aims to incorporate Greenomy’s ESG reporting services

Lionpoint launches treasury practice

Former head of operations at KKR Danny Olds will lead the practice

Amicorp launches ESG reporting and rating service

The new service includes audited ESG reports, analysis, business planning and policy implementation

GPs find brand perception key reason for ESG reporting

A survey conducted by Oliver Wyman and Novata highlights challenges for measuring ESG financial impact

Tikehau invests in Anthesis

Tikehau shares ownership of the ESG consultancy with Carlyle, Palatine and Anthesis employee shareholders

Citco’s platform available to private credit funds

Company opens up its Collaboration Platform to private credit and real assets

Altvia continues partnership with Passthrough

Companies launch tool that integrates a CRM with an LP onboarding solution

Accelex and Finarch partner up on operational efficiency

Partnership aims to assist firms with processes around portfolio monitoring, performance analytics, compliance management and data integration

What the AI?!...Equipped.ai

CEO of Equipped.ai Ed Green shares how the firm is making operations smoother with automation

Same soup just reheated

LPs’ operational priorities are unchanged in 2023 and include automation, understanding new investment structures and creating workflow efficiencies, Dynamo Software survey finds

MSCI expands partnership with Google

Companies to provide generative AI offering for portfolio and risk management, including climate risk

Clarity AI and SimCorp team up on sustainability

Partnership aims to allow clients to report on UN’s sustainable development goals through customised scores based on intended sustainability outcomes

BuildESG updates BuildRI software

In an expansion of functionality, lenders to gain visibility into GPs’ responsible investment and ESG processes

Petra Funds joins forces with Novata

Partnership aims to support with collection, analysis and reporting of ESG data

MSCI acquires Burgiss

MSCI will purchase the remaining 66% of the data provider

Venn adds report solution to portfolio analytics platform

Report Lab will enable Venn’s clients to produce client-ready reports and proposals

Inveniam launches Inveniam AI

The Miami-based division is developing automated blockchain-enabled data interpretation tools for private markets

PitchBook expands LCD research

The data provider has added LCD Credit News and Debt Deal Data into its platform

The Drawdown Award Winners: John Eggleston

John Eggleston, partner and global CTO at Pantheon Ventures, was named Technology Professional of the Year at The Drawdown Awards 2023

5 min with… Marcus P. Höfer, base camp management consulting

In conversation with The Drawdown, the CEO explains what the firm’s philosophy of ‘being a sparring partner to the CFO office’ means in practice and talks about industry trends.

Socium Fund Services partners with Broadridge

Socium will incorporate Broadridge’s Sentry tool to improve its debt fund administration services

Clearwater launches GPT tool

Available from the second half of 2023, the offering should allow clients to benchmark their portfolios against peers with similar AUM sizes and investment strategies

Quality control

CDP’s latest report analyses how a unified global regulatory approach can foster better ESG ratings and data products

What the AI?!... Amadeus Capital Partners

We speak to Amelia Armour, partner in the early-stage fund, to understand AI’s strengths and limitations in applications at VC funds

The Drawdown Awards winners: Matt Guy

Matt Guy, associate director at Federated Hermes Private Markets, was named Rising Star of the Year at The Drawdown Awards 2023

Iceberg Data Lab launches Barbatus

The tool uses generative AI to produce ESG data analysis

Apex signs strategic partnership with Flow

The fund administrator’s clients will have access to Flow’s investor lifecycle management platform

Worldfavor partners with Northpeak

The collaboration will combine Worldfavor’s sustainability data platform with Northpeak’s ESG consultancy services

The Drawdown Awards winners: Goji

The Drawdown speaks to David Genn, CEO of Goji

The Drawdown Awards winners: 73 Strings

The Drawdown speaks to Yann Magnan, CEO and co-founder of 73 Strings, winner in the Technology: Innovation category at The Drawdown Awards 2023

Passthrough teams up with STP

Partnership aims to support entire investor lifecycle and enhance operational efficiency

Canoe partners with Lionpoint

The partnership will combine operational and technological solutions with consulting services

73 Strings secures $10m

The funding aims to help expand the provider’s global presence and develop its product offering

Lantern launches with portfolio monitoring platform

Data platform will assist GPs with decision making by providing data analytics, visualisation tech and portfolio monitoring

Accelex launches data extraction solution

The product aims to extract data from private debt and securities structures for LPs and asset servicers

InvestorFlow enters European market with new London office

Former BlackRock vice-president Richard Davies to lead the company’s European operations

GoldenSource partners with Snowflake

The partnership aims to make use of Snowflake’s cloud data platform

Comment: Decision delegation

Hamish Paget-Brown, associate at ECI Partners , explores the potential of AI to lead decision making in the private equity market.

ACA launches portfolio management solution

Managed Performance Services aims to assist fund managers with performance measurement and reporting features

Brownloop and Chronograph form strategic partnership

Brownloop and Chronograph will provide clients with a joint suite of tools and services

LP reporting requests the biggest obstruction for PE GPs

Frequent reporting and ad hoc requests from LPs are the biggest obstruction to operations for private equity GPs, according to a new survey.

Quantium opens London office

The European base will be led by Anahita Beigui

Novata expands ESG benchmarking offering

The service will encompass 50 universal and more than 200 sector-specific benchmarks

What the AI?! Accelex

How is AI transforming data extraction and analytics? We spoke to Accelex’s chief product officer Nicole Weder, and product director Boris Lavrov, to find out more

The Drawdown Awards 2023: Winners announced

Congratulations to all of the winners of The Drawdown Awards 2023

IQ-EQ partners with Novata

The partnership aims to incorporate Novata’s ESG data solution into IQ-EQ’s existing services

Eiffel Investment partners with Carbon4 Finance

Partnership creates methodology to evaluate climate performance of unlisted companies

Spaulding Ridge expands tech offering

Company launches tool to optimise technology implementation and speed up revenue operations

What the AI?! Canoe Intelligence

Our new AI series kicks off by exploring the burning questions with Aman Soni, VP of data strategy at Canoe Intelligence

The conversation: Are you prepared? Liquidity strategies in a turbulent market

The Drawdown hosted a webinar to discuss how managers can respond to liquidity and risk management challenges that have been thrown into sharp focus in recent weeks

Accelex launches portfolio analytics platform

The platform aims to provide visibility and automated data analysis on portfolio funds, commitments and underlying assets

SFDR comPAIrisons

Clarity AI analysed differences in performance and strategies of 27,000 Article 6, 8 and 9 funds

Profile: Matt Harrison, Stanley Capital

The firm's CFO discusses the way technology helps influence investment decisions and how his firm uses AI to drive portfolio company growth

Survey: How is your digital transformation progressing?

The digital transformation of private capital funds continues to gather pace – The Drawdown, in partnership with IQ-EQ, is once again taking the pulse of the private capital fund market's digital transformation

Cority acquires Greenstone

Greenstone will form part of Cority’s sustainability cloud offering

Chronograph adds two to board

Ben Harrison of DealCloud and Intapp aims to help accelerate growth

The challengers

Charting the rise of the new fund admin kids on the block, looking to break the mould

Canoe opens London office

Firm aims to complement its US offerings with the new office

Comment: Transforming the alternative investment industry

Alter Domus's chief commercial officer Alex Traub discusses the fund administrator's digital transformation