How can fund administrators keep up?
The alternative investment landscape is evolving rapidly
The investment landscape is undergoing significant changes as demand for access to alternative funds continues to rise.
According to Bain & Company (www.bain.com), private markets are expected to grow at more than twice the rate of public assets, reaching up to $65 trillion by 2032.
Driven by the desire for portfolio diversification and the pursuit of strong returns, alternative investments are now also attracting a broader range of investors, including High-Net-Worth Individuals (HNWIs).
Euroclear FundsPlace® leads this transformation, empowering fund administrators to optimise operations and scale seamlessly through advanced digitisation across the entire fund lifecycle.
As the influx of new investors seeking access to alternatives grows, the operational demand on fund administrators increases exponentially. Traditional, manual processes and legacy systems are proving inadequate in this fast-paced environment, leading to inefficiencies that can stifle growth.
While mutual funds benefit from a more straightforward structure, alternative investments require complex, multi-jurisdictional processes. To stay competitive, fund administrators must modernise through digital transformation to meet the evolving demands of investors and ensure operational efficiency.
Euroclear FundsPlace enables fund administrators to overcome these challenges by providing a fully digitised, end-to-end platform that accelerates investor onboarding, subscription processing and compliance. This ensures that administrators can manage a growing number of subscriptions without sacrificing accuracy or speed.
In today’s competitive landscape, investors and asset managers demand more than just support; they expect services that drive their growth and give them a competitive edge. Euroclear FundsPlace is designed to meet these expectations, offering a platform that combines digitisation, connectivity and scalability to streamline operations and enhance efficiency. By digitising key processes, Euroclear FundsPlace enables fund administrators to scale their offerings and maintain robust connections with a growing pool of investors.
Euroclear FundsPlace offers a comprehensive, digitised journey for private market funds, covering everything from investor onboarding to settlement and reporting.
This digitisation not only reduces manual errors but also accelerates routine tasks, allowing fund administrators to focus on strategic growth and investor relations.
By automating these processes, administrators can offer a higher level of service, increasing client satisfaction and positioning themselves as leaders in the market.
Euroclear FundsPlace enhances connectivity across the entire investment ecosystem, allowing fund administrators to connect with over 3,000 distributor clients within Euroclear’s network. This broad connectivity ensures that administrators can access a vast pool of capital and investor interest, further driving the growth of alternative investments.
Digitisation and connectivity drive scalability by increasing operational efficiency and fostering faster relationship-building between distributors and the fund management companies that fund administrators service.
By scaling their clients’ operations, fund administrators can ensure client satisfaction and simultaneously scale their own operations.
Euroclear FundsPlace’s digitised environment streamlines the investment process, offering key features that simplify and enhance the management of the investor lifecycle.
- Effortless onboarding - Manage KYC and AML requirements at scale, with seamless processing across multiple jurisdictions to ensure compliance without compromising speed. With digital signatures and a secure online portal, investor convenience and security are prioritised.
- Simplified compliance - Leverage a digital audit trail and support multi-jurisdictional legal and regulatory requirements to ensure compliance and enhance trust from investors. Automated compliance checks and updates ensure adherence to the latest regulatory changes.
- Streamlined subscriptions - Reuse investor KYC/AML profiles across multiple private market fund subscriptions to accelerate the investment process. Seamless management across multiple investments and automated processing of subscriptions and redemptions ensure accuracy and timeliness.
- Digitised capital calls - Facilitate timely and accurate capital allocation with automated notifications and reminders to ensure investors meet capital call deadlines, reducing administrative burden. Transparent tracking and reporting of capital contributions enhance investor confidence and satisfaction.
- Transparent reporting - Provide real-time access to fund and portfolio-level performance metrics and reports for better-informed decision-making. Customisable dashboards allow clients to define their own metrics.
- Seamless integrations - Integration with accounting platforms and other third-party internal systems enhances the overall functionality of the digital platform and streamlines all fund operations.
Embracing Euroclear FundsPlace’s digital solutions allows fund administrators to eliminate inefficiencies, scale effectively and meet investor demand, positioning themselves as leaders in the alternative investment industry.
