IVP Pricing and Valuation Solution
To prove alpha, funds need to calculate the price of every position in the portfolio. The process of pricing and valuation involves significant time and effort, including data collection, applying rules, and conducting pricing tests. Given this complexity, pricing automation becomes a critical priority for funds. As a key component of the IVP Master Data Management (MDM) suite, the IVP Pricing and Valuation Solution streamlines the entire pricing process, facilitating automated pricing and enabling funds to ensure optimal pricing across portfolios.
The IVP Pricing and Valuation Solution efficiently integrates with multiple data sources, retrieving data from vendors and brokers while applying comprehensive waterfall pricing rules and performing necessary threshold checks. It is designed to handle highly illiquid securities and assets from exotic asset classes, ensuring that funds achieve the most accurate pricing or valuation. The solution stores a wide array of price-related data, including curve data, price parameters, and market information, helping funds implement valuation policies and providing the necessary transparency for executives, investors, and auditors to review with confidence.
KEY BENEFITS OF IVP PRICING AND VALUATION SOLUTION
Optimize Pricing and Valuation With Maximized Efficiency and Accuracy
Increased Transparency
Achieve enhanced pricing transparency with a built-in pricing audit feature for independent price verification. Track a complete time series of curve points and view all data sources for a given price, ensuring full traceability for accurate pricing and valuation in your portfolio.
Higher Accuracy
Improve pricing and valuation accuracy by customizing data quality checks across various attributes. Leverage robust data governance capabilities, allowing for rules-based test configurations and severity-based distinctions to ensure precise pricing automation and compliance.
Enhanced Integration
Simplify pricing and valuation processes with the integrated Excel add-in, enabling users to perform actions directly from the spreadsheets. This allows for seamless data integration, making IVP Pricing and Valuation Solution one of the easiest tools to implement for pricing automation and valuation accuracy.
Better Insights
Unlock deeper insights into your pricing data with comprehensive analytics that include key metrics on quote quality, market-standard models for price computation, ASC 820 levels for securities, and detailed price curve analysis.
Seamless Scalability
Easily operationalize new asset classes, funds, or pricing data sources with minimal effort. The solution provides seamless scalability, allowing funds to expand their pricing and valuation capabilities as their portfolio grows, without compromising on data quality or valuation accuracy.
Simplified Workflows
Eliminate the complexities of pricing and valuation processes by leveraging a streamlined, automated process that reduces manual intervention and integrates all relevant data sources. It handles intricate calculations and compliance requirements seamlessly.
WHAT’S POSSIBLE WITH IVP PRICING AND VALUATION SOLUTION
Security Pricing and Valuation
Pricing Audit and Analytics
Automated Daily and Monthly Pricing
Comprehensive Pricing Tests
Price Curve Analysis
Valuation Committee Packages
Price Challenge and Solicitation
Robust Pricing Data Governance
Support for Private Pricing Models
Rule-Based Workflow Automation
Valuation Model Automation for Level 3 Securities
Curve Data Management
KEY FEATURES OF PRICING AND VALUATION SOLUTION
Take Complexity Out of the Pricing Process
Pricing Automation
Automate pricing and valuation with a robust pricing engine that supports daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly pricing needs. Set up pricing rules with a user-friendly, configurable engine.
Exception Management
Resolve pricing exceptions with automated suggestions to optimize risk management. All exceptions are managed with a built-in workflow that features a complete audit trail and data governance.
Extensive Connectivity
Start with more than 100 built-in adapters to data vendors, brokers, and pricing agents, as well as a long list of front and back office systems, including more than 10 portfolio management and accounting systems.
Flexible Reporting
The IVP Pricing and Valuation Solution comes with a long list of standard pricing reports, including a valuation committee package. Teams can also create custom pricing reports for fund-specific needs.
Valuation of Private Deals
The IVP Pricing and Valuation Solution automates pricing for mark-to-model securities with support for native valuation models and integration with spreadsheet-based models and pricing agents.
Excel Add-In
A fully integrated Excel add-in allows front-office users to provide desk estimates and pricing notes directly from an Excel spreadsheet.
SEC Rule 2a-5 Compliance
The IVP Pricing and Valuation Solution helps funds apply fair value determination policies consistently and deliver prices that the valuation designee, the board, and regulators can review with confidence.
Private Credit Pricing Model
Seamlessly generate loan cash flows, calculate discount rates, and determine NPV with accuracy, leveraging market data, credit spreads, and swap rates for precise valuation of illiquid assets.
Pricing and Valuation Solution
As an integrated pricing and valuation solution, this platform seamlessly connects with leading pricing data vendors and brokers. Designed for flexibility and ease of use, the IVP Pricing and Valuation Solution features a configurable engine that supports a wide range of pricing processes, meeting the diverse needs of funds and asset managers. Tailored for both pricing and valuation automation, this robust platform empowers funds to streamline operations and optimize pricing accuracy.
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