Private Equity Fund Administration Software

Led by successful veterans of the investor servicing and fund administration industry with strong industry connections, we have a mature yet flexible approach to delivering business outcomes via technology to our clients.

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Fund Administrators ​

Understanding your needs

The landscape of private asset fund administration is evolving under the influence of macroeconomic factors that are poised to impact fundraising, performance, and overall industry growth. However, the ushering in of retailisation through initiatives like European Long-Term Investment Funds (ELTIF) paves the way for new opportunities.

At daappa, we grasp the significance of these shifts:

daappa provides comprehensive data management and reporting tools to meet increasing demands for transparency and detailed data analysis.

With efficient data management and automated workflows, daappa helps maintain high service levels, ensuring client satisfaction and mitigating reputation risk.

The platform’s automation and integration capabilities streamline operations, optimise processes, and help reduce costs.

daappa’s flexible architecture and comprehensive functionality effectively handle the complexities associated with hybrid and corporate fund structures.

Accounting & Administration

Fund Admin Software: Key Features

daappa provides all the functionality required to administer private capital and hybrid funds investing in direct and indirect investments, funds and SPVs

daappa Core

Dependable and proven software for
Fund Administrators

daappa’s flexible Security Master Model allows you to create and define any asset type including PE, private debt/credit, real estate, real assets, as liquid / listed assets and funds.

  • Streamline communications with investors and counterparties using the built-in CRM Microsoft-based mail merge. Automatically generate and send capital call notices, distribution notices, and other essential communications, ensuring timely and accurate delivery.
  • Build comprehensive investor profiles, capturing all necessary data to meet regulatory and investor obligations, including KYC, AML and FATCA/CRS information.
  • Build and manage complex entity relationships for master-feeder, ultimate owner and other tracking interactions and communications to ensure all investor needs and regulatory requirements are met.
  • Record bank details and instructions, such as SWIFT messages, for integration with your banking software, ensuring secure and efficient transaction processing.
  • Record bank details and instructions, such as SWIFT messages, for integration with your banking software, ensuring secure and efficient transaction processing.
  • Provide investors with standard and customisable reports. Users can create tailored reports to suit specific needs, ensuring all relevant information is available at a glance.
  • Look Through capabilities enable you to visualise the full investment structure of a fund or portfolio, from the end investor through to the ultimate investment or asset, enhancing transparency and trust.
  • Use the daappa Portal to provide controlled access to datasets and reports facilitating the exchange of forms, notices, and documentation.
  • daappa has a controlled algorithmic process for the preparation, review and approval of investment valuations. These can be based on periodic updates from investment companies, transaction data, tracked indices, FX rates and user-defined data points.
  • Calculate valuations based on industry-standard or in-house methods and automatically allocate the ‘enterprise value’ across loan and equity structures.
  • Define up to ten different valuation permutations per investment, each valuation type can be used for different purposes such as NAV & GAV algorithms, accounting valuation, fair market value (including IFRS9 for loans), investment director’s valuation, and exit valuations.
  • For each valuation, you can select either the algorithmic valuation or manual valuation posting routines.
  • What-If valuation modelling supported
  • Quoted investments can be priced via an external feed.
  • All valuation types can be used to calculate IRRs.
  • The NAV (Net Asset Value) workflow simplifies and centralises the NAV calculation process.
  • Displays all necessary processes for NAV calculation, including portfolio accrual, arrears, FX, securities valuation, fund fees, and GL FX.
  • Initiate and run the entire NAV process from a single screen, ensuring all underlying processes are executed in the correct order.
  • Real-time visibility of NAV status and error reporting.
  • Direct access to the setup for each process, minimizing re-entry and setup.
  • Automated Sequence Execution ensures all portfolio and capital transactions are processed before the final NAV calculation.
  • Robust error handling and validation checks.
  • daappa can record details of the investee company in which a Fund/SPV directly invests in. The investment can take the form of equity purchase or a loan advance. An investee company can be invested into by multiple funds.
  • The instrument class and instrument type are setup by the user for an Investment Security in the system. This is used to define the characteristics of the loan, equity or preference share security on an investment, including the GL treatment for portfolio transactions.
  • daappa enables all portfolio accounting transactions to be recorded including acquisitions, redemptions/disposals, investment expenses and security revaluations. Conversions can be used when an investment security is exchanged or converted to a different type or class of security. Multiple investment rounds can also be created for an investment.
  • Accruals may be processed to recognise revenues such as loan interest, dividends payments, investment fees and planned redemptions, before cash is received. daappa allows the creation of income definitions to generate income accruals for the various elements of income and capital repayments associated with investments and securities.
  • daappa allows for postings to be entered once and then automatically generates aggregation and allocation routines to the appropriate funds in the hierarchy.
  • Fund investments are tracked at the investor level to enable a Partner’s exposure to each investment to be tracked. The underlying (shadow) investments of externally managed funds, known as invested funds, can also be monitored.
  • Investments held directly, or indirectly via funds, can be aggregated and valuations compared
  • daappa enables all capital accounting transactions to be recorded including commitment,capital calls, distributions and transfers of interest.
  • Drawdown and distribution transactions can be allocated by users across your investors using flexible allocation rules. This includes using investors’ commitments, undrawn amounts and the priority of any series that have been set up. Rounding rules can also be incorporated.
  • Definable transaction codes can be used to clarify the purpose of each amount drawn and repaid. This includes recallable distributions that can be identified and tracked separately.
  • Capital accounting statements can be displayed in an enquiry or printed in a formal report. This information includes all drawdown amounts, fees, charges and distributions.
  • A management fee algorithm is provided that can be modified fund by fund as required or additional fund management fee algorithms can be created by users.
  • Fund invoicing allows the recording of both expense and income invoices at the fund level and the subsequent control of payment. Reverse charge VAT and realised FX on differences between invoice settlement and bank clearing date are included.
  • Transfers of an investor’s interest to one or more new investors in a fund can be posted using various rule sets to ensure that historical transactions are presented as required.
  • Capital and portfolio transaction postings will automatically create GL journal entries that can populate daappa’s inbuilt general ledger or your existing/future external ledger system.
  • A flexible coding structure can be set up to reflect GL classifications.
  • Allows for a nominal breakdown for investment / partner analysis.
  • Postings can be made to the GL as real-time entries or as a monthly summary.
  • Users define the chart of accounts and the rules that determine how each transaction will be allocated.
  • Each fund will be posted in the designated currency of the fund alongside any currency accounts that are held by the fund.
  • Allows multi-currency transactions and revaluation routines.
  • Fully featured ledger with cost centres and analysis codes.
  • Flexible chart of accounts and a segmented account code structure.
  • F/X revaluation for realised and unrealised exchange differences.
  • Cost allocations and multiple journal types, repeating journals, accruals and prepayment journals, multi-company.
  • GAAP and IFRS accounting standards are accommodated using an aggregation facility which enables accounts to be combined and reallocated.
  • daappa provides standard reports for financial reporting (including IFRS9), market reporting (such as BCL, INREV, FATCA, and CRS), and performance reporting like IRRs with many parameters to customise to specific needs.
  • Reports can be adapted and created to reflect specific requirements and include extra data that may have been chosen for collection.
  • daappa contains a powerful data enquiry and reporting function called Analyser that allows control over creating sophisticated data extracts and reports.
  • The database can be queried, sorted, and filtered on many combinations and permutations of data using drag-and-drop and report builder.
  • Custom calculations can be defined so that virtually any measurement ratio or factor can be supported.
  • Reports can be exported in a range of formats including CSV, XLSX, PDF, RTF, TXT, and HTML.
  • Scheduling of regular reports is controlled using the inbuilt task runner.

End to end functionality

Extensive capabilities

Control and security

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News and insights

Insights

The Impact of Technology on Private Markets

daappa surveyed general partners asset managers and administrators in the UK and continental Europe to explore how they are dealing with fragmented systems and operational data challenges specifically related to private market operations.

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Insights

The Golden Source of Truth

Recent industry talks have centred around ESG data, its reporting and further transparency for Private Assets investors.  The emphasis on the pre-sales stage of fundraising and ongoing sustainable investing has never been more important.

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daappa benefits

Why daappa

End to End Functionality for Private Assets

Multi asset, class & currency
Private equity, debt, funds, real assets
Transaction and report driven processing

Open Architecture & Data Management

Automate & centralise multiple data sources
Cloud-hosted Microsoft technologies
Secure & encrypted document exchange

Operational Efficiency & Scale

Built-for-purpose integrated solutions
Single source of truth data model
Scalable technology platform

Risk Mitigation & Transparency

Granular user access control
Maker / Checker / Approval workflow
Full audit history reporting

Operating Model Flexibility

‘No code’ dashboard, data field and workflow builder
Business process designer & task runner
Self service reports & data extract builder

Proactive, Collaborative Supplier

Managed cloud and ecosystem services

Transparent pricing model
Collaborative roadmap and quarterly releases

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daappa solutions

Choose a solution that is right for your team

Subscription packages available on the daappa platform

daappa Core

For firms who require integrated end-to-end functionality and have retained middle and/or back-office operations, or are performing fund accounting, administration and investor services for others.

daappa Studio

For teams that need Core to connect with other data sources to create a single source of truth, and to provide a branded interactive document & data exchange and reporting portal for their clients.

daappa Studio+

For firms who require integrated end-to-end functionality and have retained middle and/or back-office operations, or are performing fund accounting, administration and investor services for others.