Firms dealing with alternative investments (private equity, real assets, infrastructure, etc.) face the challenges of an increasingly complex array of data that comes in many forms (structured and unstructured) and must deal with cumbersome manual processes to get this data in a more consumable form. This CutterCast elaborates on the challenges in data collation for alternative investments and the tools and processes that firms use to overcome those challenges.
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Alternative investments represent one of the fastest-growing asset classes. While progress supporting alternative investments continues, this asset class is significantly more challenging to support than public equity/fixed income investments. Challenges include the prevalence of unstructured data, a scarcity of industry standards, the fragmentation of applications, and a lack of transparency into underlying investments.
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