Investment managers and operations teams in the private markets often struggle with manual processes, especially with large numbers of deals and bespoke monthly financial and operating KPIs across all portfolios. These processes conceal significant key person risk and data quality risk given the current market backdrop and tightening regulatory requirements.
We’re helping to solve this with Stages, the data circulatory system for private markets investment teams. Unlike other workflow point solution tools and Excel spreadsheets, Stages is fully integrated across the Mercatus platform. This creates a single place of data truth across the investment structure from asset to fund, deal to divestment, and debt to equity. With increasing regulatory pressure and rising demands for transparency from investors, private markets fund managers without a platform to track all the “stages” of their workflow processes will be left behind.
Our new workflow solution allows users to transport, approve, or reject data points or attachments with full workflow transparency and data provisioning. Our goal is to help asset managers and owners break down data silos and build the foundation of data oversight across the investment lifecycle process. Moreover, this will help fund managers and asset owners adopt the front-to-back “One Office” mindset.
Stages is fully configurable to help solve many key workflow processes, including:
Let’s take a fund manager with a 50-investment portfolio. The portfolio management team wants to collect quarterly financial and operating KPIs across the portfolio and ensure a formal data review and approval process before sending it to the back office for fund-level valuation.
Key questions this fund manager may have include:
All of these can be solved with Mercatus Stages. This platform feature not only helps create a “freeway” of data and audit history across a fund manager’s entire investment but also connects the workflow from front office to back office.
Stages allow users to transport and approve data points with flexibility and confidence. Moreover, the full workflow audit history provides real-time insights into the accuracy and completeness of the workflow and data, making it easier for workflow managers to identify and be notified of any issues.
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