Formerly known as Global Research & Risk Solutions

  • Crisil Integral IQ
  • ESG
January 17, 2025 Content Type Case study

Ownership of complex workflows for global diversified alternate AM with ~1Trillion AUM

January 17, 2025 Content Type Case study

 

 

Engagement summary

 

Challenge faced by the client

 

  • Handling complex-domain intrinsic workflows at scale

Engagement highlights

 

  • Crisil offers research, middle office, and valuations support
  • Our coverage spans both US and European alternative assets, encompassing private debt, private equity, and hedge funds

 

Scope of work

 

Deal support

 

  • Deal surveillance and reporting on 350+ private deals and 800+ public deals, involving the updating and construction of financial models. Additionally, providing qualitative reviews for quarterly/monthly filings

Corporate finance

 

  • Valuation support for private deals, including onboarding and preparation of monthly/quarterly dashboards across direct lending strategies, covering 200+ private assets for regulatory compliance and risk management
  • FP&A support for financial reporting to internal/external stakeholders

Middle/back office

 

  • Reconciliation and shadow accounting support on 400+ private and public portfolios with Crisil
  • Managing centralized financial database of investee companies

ESG integration

 

  • ESG due diligence for private (~200) and liquid credit (~600) transactions; quantitative ESG scorecards for 700+ liquid positions; good governance assessment for SFDR-labelled funds

 

Impact

 

  • Rapidly scaled up the support and took ownership of 90% of model roll forwards to free up the onshore team's bandwidth
  • Cleared cash/par reconciliation backlog by assuming complete ownership of recon workflows and prevented costly errors
  • Leveraged deep domain expertise in ESG to design and build scorecards/frameworks with exceptional quality

 

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