Alternative Asset Managers
Alternative asset managers face mounting pressure to deliver transparency, meet evolving regulatory demands and scale operations efficiently.
Scale your alternative investment operations without scaling headcount
FE fundinfo's Nexus platform provides the golden source of data and embedded AI workflows you need to streamline investor reporting, ensure compliance and drive sustainable growth across private equity, hedge funds, venture capital and real assets.
The Nexus solution for alternative asset managers
Nexus provides alternative asset managers with an integrated platform that transforms fragmented data into streamlined, compliant operations. Built on 30 years of regulatory expertise and trusted by investment professionals across 75+ jurisdictions, our platform delivers the golden source of data you need to operate efficiently, reduce risk and scale with confidence.
The alternative investment challenge
The alternative investment landscape presents unique operational challenges that extend far beyond portfolio management.
Operating environment
- Complex landscape with demanding stakeholders
- Investors require detailed transparency: holdings, valuations, performance
- Regulators demand comprehensive multi-jurisdictional reporting
- Operations teams manage fragmented data, manual processes, inconsistent standards
Operational impact
- Mid-sized PE firms (15 portfolio companies): 300+ hours lost per quarter on data aggregation and validation
- Hedge funds: multiplied challenges balancing real-time tracking with monthly statements and regulatory submissions
- Quarterly reporting, regulatory filings, due diligence consume extensive team resources reconciling disparate systems
Business consequences
- Time inefficiency
- Compliance risk from inconsistent data
- Scaling constraints: AUM growth requires proportional headcount increases
- Gap between investor expectations (institutional-grade reporting) and existing infrastructure capabilities
- Reputation and growth risks when data quality issues surface during fundraising or audits
- Competitive advantage requires operational excellence alongside investment performance
Data excellence for complex asset classes
Alternative investments require sophisticated data management across private company holdings, illiquid positions and non-standard valuations. Nexus integrates data from fund administrators, custodians, portfolio companies and market sources into a single, validated system. Our platform processes over 9 million data points monthly and produces 550k+ regulatory documents annually with 90% automation and AI-enabled validation.
Whether you manage private equity buyouts, venture capital portfolios, hedge fund strategies or real assets, Nexus adapts to your specific data requirements. The platform maintains audit-ready records with full lineage tracking, ensuring you can demonstrate data accuracy to investors and regulators on demand.
Regulatory compliance across jurisdictions
AIFMD reporting, Form PF submissions, transparency requirements and cross-border regulations create substantial compliance burdens for alternative asset managers. Nexus embeds regulatory intelligence directly into your workflows with automated compliance checks, real-time alerts for regulatory changes and pre-validated templates for required disclosures.
Built on ISO 27001/9001 certified infrastructure, Nexus ensures your compliance processes meet the highest standards for security, auditability and reliability.
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Regulatory document production
Our platform automates the creation of regulatory and marketing documents including AIFMD Annex IV reports, offering memoranda, subscription documents and disclosure statements. As the largest fund document producer in Europe, we maintain templates for evolving regulatory requirements across 35 languages, ensuring your documentation remains compliant as regulations change. Our flexible production tools support complex fund structures whilst maintaining consistency across all materials.
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Regulatory filing and reporting
Through our sophisticated e-file portal, Nexus facilitates direct submission to 60+ national competent authorities with automated deadline tracking and compliance validation. The platform handles multi-jurisdiction reporting complexity, ensuring timely and accurate submissions whilst maintaining comprehensive audit trails. For alternative asset managers operating across multiple markets, this centralised filing capability reduces operational risk significantly.
Investor reporting that builds trust
Limited partners and institutional investors demand comprehensive, timely reporting on portfolio performance, valuations, capital calls and distributions. Nexus streamlines investor communications by consolidating data from multiple sources into consistent, professional reports.
Generate quarterly investor letters, capital account statements and transparency reports with embedded AI that ensures accuracy and consistency. The platform supports custom reporting formats for different investor types whilst maintaining a single source of truth for all underlying data. Your investor relations team gains efficiency whilst your LPs receive the transparency they expect.
Distribution and market access
Fund data and document dissemination
Nexus connects alternative asset managers to institutional investors, wealth managers and research providers through our global distribution network. Our dissemination services ensure timely delivery of fund data, performance information and regulatory documents to distribution partners across multiple jurisdictions. The platform maintains data integrity through our Loopback service, which monitors published information against your golden source database and alerts you to any discrepancies.
Whether launching new vehicles, updating existing fund information or expanding into new markets, Nexus accelerates your speed-to-market whilst ensuring regulatory compliance. Our distribution infrastructure provides the reach and reliability required for sophisticated institutional distribution strategies.
Intelligent automation with Nexus AI
Nexus AI
Nexus AI transforms how alternative asset managers handle complex operational tasks. The AI layer embedded throughout the platform automates document reviews, extracts key information from unstructured data and generates compliance-ready outputs. For alternative asset managers dealing with complex portfolio company data, private company valuations and extensive due diligence documentation, Nexus AI reduces manual processing time by identifying patterns, flagging anomalies and suggesting corrections before issues reach investors or regulators.
The platform handles increasing data volumes, additional portfolio companies and new fund launches without requiring systems overhauls or process redesign. Whether you're managing two funds or twenty, Nexus maintains consistent data quality and operational efficiency across your entire organisation.
Key benefits for alternative asset managers
Operational efficiency gains
Manual data aggregation and reconciliation consumes substantial resources across alternative investment operations. Nexus automates time-intensive workflows from data collection through reporting and distribution.
Operations teams using integrated platforms report efficiency improvements of 40-60% compared to fragmented systems. For a fund managing £500 million in AUM, this translates to 250+ hours saved per quarter and enables your team to focus on strategic initiatives rather than administrative tasks.
Reduced regulatory and operational risk
Data errors in regulatory filings or investor reports create compliance risk and reputational damage. Nexus reduces risk through structured data validation, automated compliance checks and audit-ready infrastructure.
The platform maintains complete data lineage, enabling you to trace every figure in an investor report back to its source. When regulators or auditors request documentation, you can provide comprehensive evidence in hours rather than weeks.
Enhanced investor confidence
Institutional investors conduct rigorous operational due diligence before committing capital. Demonstrating robust data management, regulatory compliance and professional reporting infrastructure strengthens your position during fundraising and investor reviews.
Nexus provides the operational foundation that sophisticated investors expect. Your investor relations team can respond to due diligence questionnaires with confidence, knowing your data infrastructure meets institutional standards.
Faster market entry and expansion
Launching new funds or expanding into additional jurisdictions requires navigating complex regulatory requirements and establishing operational infrastructure. Nexus accelerates market entry by providing pre-built compliance frameworks and regulatory-grade data management.
The platform supports alternative managers across 75+ jurisdictions with deep regulatory expertise embedded into workflows. Whether you're launching your first fund or expanding from UK-focused strategies into European markets, Nexus provides the infrastructure to move quickly whilst maintaining compliance.
Nexus platform capabilities
Product data management
Maintain accurate, validated fund data across portfolio holdings, strategies and share classes. Nexus integrates with fund administrators, custodians and internal systems to create a unified view of positions, valuations and transactions. Automated validation flags discrepancies before they impact reporting, whilst audit trails provide complete transparency.
Regulatory calculations and reporting
Navigate AIFMD, Form PF and jurisdiction-specific requirements with automated calculations and pre-validated templates. Embedded regulatory intelligence keeps pace with evolving requirements across the UK, Europe and Asia Pacific. Generate required disclosures and risk reports with AI that ensures accuracy whilst maintaining historical records and deadline alerts.
Distribution and investor communications
Connect with investors through secure document delivery, portal access and automated communications for capital calls, distributions and periodic reporting. Integrated workflows provide audit trails for all communications whilst LPs receive timely, professional reporting through preferred channels.
Portfolio intelligence with embedded AI
Transform portfolio data into actionable insights. Analyse performance across holdings, identify trends and generate investment committee materials with AI-driven analysis. Semantic search lets your team query portfolio data using natural language for instant analysis on sector exposure, valuation trends or performance attribution.
Industry expertise you can trust
FE fundinfo brings three decades of investment industry experience to alternative asset management. Our platform serves as the golden source of data for investment professionals managing over 2 million active portfolios globally.
We understand the unique operational challenges of alternative investments because we've built our platform in partnership with managers like you. From private equity firms navigating complex waterfall calculations to hedge funds managing multi-strategy portfolios, Nexus provides the infrastructure that sophisticated alternative managers require.
Our ISO 27001/9001 certified systems process over 7 million static data points and 1.5 million documents monthly. We file 3.5 million documents to regulators across 60+ national competent authorities annually. This operational scale, combined with deep regulatory expertise, makes Nexus the trusted partner for alternative managers seeking to streamline operations whilst maintaining the highest standards for data quality and compliance.
Why alternative asset managers choose FE fundinfo
Alternative asset management requires operational infrastructure that matches the sophistication of your investment strategies. Generic fund administration tools and fragmented point solutions create inefficiencies, compliance risk and scalability constraints. Nexus provides purpose-built infrastructure for alternative managers who demand more from their data and technology. Our end-to-end platform delivers:
Single golden source
Consolidate data from administrators, custodians, portfolio companies and market sources into one validated system. Eliminate reconciliation headaches and ensure consistency across all investor and regulatory reporting.
Regulatory-grade infrastructure
Built on ISO-certified systems with complete audit trails, automated compliance checks and embedded regulatory intelligence across 75+ jurisdictions.
Scalable operations
Support AUM growth and fund launches without proportionally scaling operational headcount. Automation and AI-embedded workflows enable efficient operations at any scale.
Investor-ready transparency
Generate professional, accurate investor reports and due diligence materials that meet institutional expectations. Strengthen investor confidence through operational excellence.
Connected ecosystem
Integrate seamlessly with your existing fund administrators, custodians and internal systems. Nexus works within your operational ecosystem whilst providing unified data management.
Get started with Nexus
Alternative asset managers across private equity, hedge funds, venture capital and real assets trust FE fundinfo to streamline operations, reduce risk and enable growth. Our platform delivers the data infrastructure and embedded AI intelligence you need to focus on what matters most: delivering exceptional investment performance for your investors.
Transform your operational infrastructure with the golden source of data trusted by investment professionals globally. Nexus provides the foundation for efficient, compliant and scalable alternative asset management.
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FAQs
Frequently asked questions
Nexus connects with your fund administrators, custodians and internal systems through API integrations, database connections and secure file transfers. The platform consolidates data from multiple sources into a single validated system whilst maintaining your existing operational relationships. You continue working with your chosen service providers whilst gaining unified data management and automated workflows across all systems.
Nexus supports AIFMD reporting, Form PF submissions and jurisdiction-specific requirements across the UK, Europe and Asia Pacific. The platform includes pre-built templates and automated calculations for over 75 jurisdictions, with embedded regulatory intelligence that updates automatically when requirements change. Alternative managers can handle private equity, hedge fund, venture capital and real assets reporting through a single platform.
Implementation timelines vary based on portfolio complexity and existing systems, but most alternative managers achieve full operational deployment within 8-12 weeks. The process includes data migration, system integration, team training and validation testing. FE fundinfo's implementation team works alongside your operations staff to ensure smooth transition with minimal disruption to ongoing reporting obligations.
Yes. Nexus manages sophisticated private equity structures including multi-tier waterfalls, clawback provisions, preferred returns and carried interest calculations. The platform automates LP capital account tracking, distribution calculations and tax reporting whilst maintaining complete audit trails. Investment teams can model distribution scenarios and generate investor-specific reporting across different share classes and fee structures.
Nexus AI automates time-intensive tasks including document review, compliance checking and portfolio analysis. The platform uses semantic search to enable natural language queries across portfolio data, generates investment committee materials with AI-driven analysis and flags potential compliance issues before they require manual intervention. Alternative managers typically reduce quarterly reporting cycles by 40-60% whilst improving data accuracy and audit readiness.
Nexus operates on ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified infrastructure with complete audit trails, role-based access controls and encrypted data transmission. The platform maintains detailed logs of all data changes and user actions, enabling full regulatory and investor audits. FE fundinfo processes over 9 million data points and 1.5 million documents monthly for investment professionals globally, with enterprise-grade security protocols protecting sensitive portfolio and investor information.
Nexus provides pre-built regulatory frameworks and compliance templates for 75+ jurisdictions across the UK, Europe and Asia Pacific. When expanding into new markets, alternative managers gain immediate access to jurisdiction-specific reporting requirements, automated calculations and regulatory intelligence without building infrastructure from scratch. The platform accelerates market entry whilst ensuring compliance from day one of operations.
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FE fundinfo is a leading financial data company connecting the investment industry across the UK, Europe and Asia Pacific through a single integrated platform. Our Nexus platform transforms trusted data into automated, intelligent and compliant workflows which enable investment managers, wealth managers and data partners to operate efficiently, reduce risk and drive sustainable growth.
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