Citi’s Alternative Investor SolutionOptimizing the investment process
Citi’s Alternative Investor Solution
If you are an institutional investor in Alternatives, you see it all around you. Your
firm’s operational and administrative capabilities are being challenged by new
pressures: meeting and monitoring investment guidelines, needing more prudent
levels of diversification and better insight into underlying investments. If your
current processes are falling short, it’s little wonder. What’s required is a new model
— one that more intelligently integrates your front- and back-office activities.
Citi’s Alternative Investor Solution delivers this new model.
By improving visibility into your portfolio, our straight-through solution can assist you in enhancing your investment performance by providing:
• A dynamic, cross-functional information platform
• Integrated services dedicated to alternative assets
• Specialized capital markets and liquidity solutions
• Modularity and customization to fit specific client needs
• Secure website access
Optimizing intelligence to empower informed decision making
A suite of modular capabilities designed specifically for alternatives.
Citi’s Alternative Investor Solution enables the alternative
investment cycle on a unified, comprehensive platform.
That makes your investment process more efficient, and
your decision process more informed.
Research and Analytics
Markets and Banking
Administration and Custody
Middle Office and Risk
ManagementInstitutional
Investor
Research and Analytics ToolOptimized intelligence for informed decisions
Citi’s Research and Analytics tool is a unique set of intelligence tools that empowers informed decision making. It aggregates your portfolio research and third party data to optimize portfolio management tasks, adding value to your capabilities through its ability to:
• Track current and potential investments
• Generate fund profiles
• Track and report on operational and investment due diligence
• Allow you to perform historical investment analysis
• Integrate with market data sources
• Conduct index, benchmark and peer group analyses
• Enable you to generate analysis of returns
The system can take data feeds from
industry-respected sources.
Middle Office and Risk Management Technology SolutionsEvaluate portfolio data in innovative ways
This innovative capability was developed specifically for alternatives. It offers full visibility into your portfolio, enabling institutional investors to view and evaluate data in innovative ways.
By integrating your back- and middle-office processes and information, the Middle Office and Risk Management module enhances portfolio efficiency, accuracy and risk mitigation.
The solution offers:• Visibility to track underlying fund
performance and investment liquidity
• Ability for you to review investments against investment guidelines
• Dynamic on-demand portfolio performance reporting
• A look through to investment companies
• Performance and Risk analytics
• Multicurrency functionality with capabilities to calculate FX exposures for both investors and investments
• Compatibility with Citi FX solutions to offer end-to-end processing of FX orders
The Middle Office client portal offers a
dashboard view of your workflow.
The Hedge Fund Positions table
displays the performance of each
hedge fund investment.
Administration and CustodyThe foundation of our integrated offering
To reduce your administrative burdens, Administration and Custody feature:
• Fully automated global order management, custody and cash management
• Workflow flexibility and transparency
• A single, consistent global operating model
• Dedicated client service
Comprehensive fund administration capabilities include:
• Accounting — Support for a wide breadth of product structures and instruments across alternative and traditional fund business lines
• Custody — A dedicated alternatives solution custom designed for the challenges of executing and maintaining hedge fund and/or private equity investments
Markets and Banking SolutionsAccess to world-class resources and structuring expertise
Combining superior technical skills with global scope and scale, Citi offers comprehensive financial solutions customized to the unique requirements of alternative investors and managers.
You can gain access to Citi’s extensive experience, knowledge base and structuring expertise in order to best fulfill your individual requirements.
Markets and Banking Solutions include:
• Liquidity facilities to bridge subscription and redemption funding gaps
• FX margining alternatives • Structured investments and
repackagings• Hedging solutions for custom
portfolios• Multi-asset-class trading and
hedging capabilities
Markets and Banking solutions may be provided by Citi’s broker/dealer affiliates.
More efficient, more informed, more effective.
Responding to the needs of investors in alternatives with intelligence, our platform offers:
• A unique, cross-functional information and portfolio management platform
• Expert support, systems and tools dedicated to investors in alternatives
• Industry-leading hedging, structuring and financing expertise
The Alternative Investor Solution comes to you from Citi, with the global experience, scale and technology necessary to meet your needs.
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Citi’s Alternative Investor Solution is designed to support your investment
process and assist you in enhancing the performance of your portfolio. Our
commitment to serving institutional investors in Alternatives is demonstrated
through our solutions, each of which is designed from an alternative investor’s
point of view and customized to meet your individual needs.
For more information about the Alternative Investor Solution, please contact one of our representatives:
North AmericaMichael [email protected]
Europe Middle East and AfricaAndrew Collins44 (20) 7508-2704 [email protected]
Asia Wout Kalis +65 [email protected]
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