In the complex and opaque realm of private markets, where investments now surpass $15 trillion1, high-quality data and actionable insights are invaluable yet traditionally difficult to access. Addepar is at the forefront of transforming this landscape. With over $7 trillion in assets on our platform — 40% of which are in alternatives — the assets on the Addepar platform encompass more than 40,000 funds, 11,000 fund managers, and 250,000 LP positions, positioning us uniquely to develop solutions that provide transparency and insight into private market dynamics. 

Through our conversations with our clients, we’ve identified that investors in alternative assets face significant hurdles, including a lack of transparency that obscures asset valuations and complicates risk assessments. Conducting ongoing maintenance of valuations during the investment period introduces additional complexity, compounded by the need to manage various document formats and retrieve these documents from multiple portals. The evolving regulatory landscape further challenges compliance, while the absence of standard benchmarks makes performance measurement difficult. 

Recognizing the need for greater clarity and transparency in alternatives, Addepar has crafted additional solutions designed to address these distinct challenges throughout each stage of the alts investment lifecycle. Our new offerings seek to enhance transparency and simplify data management, empowering clients to manage their investments more effectively and confidently.

Crafting alternative solutions that fit into your investment cycles 

1. Pre-investment

Before making an investment in alts, the Addepar platform plays a critical role in helping investors research, evaluate, and simulate potential allocations. One way Addepar is transforming this process is through our newly released private fund cash flow forecasts within our Navigator product. These forecasts, driven by aggregated and anonymized data on capital calls and distributions, enable investors to plan for private fund cash flows, project J-curve return profiles and understand liquidity events before committing capital. By integrating these forecasts with Navigator’s models, clients can leverage a detailed projection of cash needs, asset class exposure, and forecasted returns when making investment decisions. Overall, clients are equipped with a better understanding of potential investment timelines and outcomes, allowing them to make optimal allocation decisions by strategizing entry points, aligning investments with liquidity profiles, and assessing risk exposure more effectively

2. Investment period

Once invested, the Addepar platform further supports access to high-quality data and insights, facilitating ongoing management and informed decision-making when managing the complexities of alternative investments. 

With our recently launched Alts Data Management solution, clients can automate the collection and data processing of critical fund documents such as capital call notices and account statements, significantly reducing the operational burdens of managing alternative data. This automated solution not only enhances data accuracy but also allows our clients to focus on strategic decision-making rather than data management. 

With alts data flowing into our platform, our Navigator offering continues to support effective cash flow management and target allocation strategies by providing a way to standardize, reuse, and even customize capital market assumptions. With this information, clients have the power to adjust strategies dynamically, ensuring optimal capital deployment and mitigating risks associated with market volatility or unexpected investment performance. 

Together, these solutions enable an efficient and responsive investment management process, crucial for managing performance and investment compliance throughout the investment phase.

3. Post-investment

Following investment, the Addepar platform provides essential support for evaluating and managing the maturity and exit of these investments. Our Alts Data Management solution can once again be used to extract, validate, and seamlessly integrate data from distribution notices and other documents, enabling access to the data needed to drive clarity on how to adjust portfolios and redeploy capital. Navigator further helps clients to understand the distributions’ impact on portfolio liquidity and returns, identify where to invest excess cash and adjust asset allocation accordingly as investments mature. Furthermore, our recently launched Private Fund Benchmarks offer comprehensive insights into historical performance drivers, enabling investors to benchmark their performance against peers and refine their strategies for future cycles. Investors can use benchmarks to evaluate managers, improve performance reporting, and access performance attribution through a diagnostic dashboard.

In the dynamic and complex alternative investment landscape, Addepar continues to deliver comprehensive solutions aimed at increasing transparency and providing our clients with greater insights and clarity when investing and managing alternatives. Not only do our solutions help our clients optimize performance and maintain investment compliance, but they also offer our clients a competitive edge in investing in the private markets through a best-in-class technology stack that transforms investment processes.

Learn more about how these new solutions can transform your alternative investment workflows. 

Reference:

  1. Top Trends in Wealth Management, 2025: Scalability Rules the Day, Datos Insights, January 2025.