Collect updates from 30+ managers
Quarterly letters arrive in different formats, on different schedules, with different definitions of the same metrics. Without Vantage, someone reads each one by hand and keys the numbers into a spreadsheet.
The alternatives team runs the hardest back office in the institution: thirty managers, varying cadences, opaque reporting, a quarterly committee waiting on a deck. Vantage is the operating layer that turns the grind into a workflow.
The alternatives section of every committee deck is the longest to prepare and has the least trustworthy data. Vantage changes that.
Quarterly letters arrive in different formats, on different schedules, with different definitions of the same metrics. Without Vantage, someone reads each one by hand and keys the numbers into a spreadsheet.
Each manager has different underlying company marks, different methodologies, different opinion letter providers. Reconciling them takes days. With Vantage, it’s automatic and sourced.
Without Vantage: figures pulled from multiple spreadsheets, hoping nothing has changed since the last refresh. With Vantage: every number is live, sourced, and traceable.
"I’ll have to get back to you on where that figure came from." The answer no committee member should hear. Vantage makes it automatic.
Quarterly letters, K-1s, capital call notices, valuation opinions. Read and extracted. Every metric sourced to the originating document. No manual entry.
Houlihan, Duff & Phelps, Kroll. Full reading, including rasterized conclusion tables. Cross letter analysis. Every mark defensible when the committee asks.
Pulse briefings for any underlying company. What changed, what it means, what to watch. Prepared before the meeting, not during it.
Unfunded commitments, expected call timing, distribution history. Structured into one liquidity view your finance team can plan around.