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Geneva® World Investor

A single solution for portfolio management, investor accounting, and servicing

With Geneva World Investor, portfolio management, investoraccounting, and servicing are fully integrated within a singleplatform, allowing a more efficient end-to-end solution andlowering total cost of ownership. Having an integrated solutionenables firms to achieve greater transparency, fully supportonshore and offshore investors, and meet comprehensivereporting requirements with ease for a complete view of yourbusiness.

Why Geneva World Investor?

• Expand into new markets, including family offices andjurisdictions that require deep, complex structures.

• Improve efficiencies across assets classes such as private equityand fund of funds.

• Eliminate operational risk resulting from manual entry throughfully automated processes from trade lifecycle management toinvestor servicing and reporting.

• Lower TCO with a fully integrated investment and investoraccounting support on a single platform, reducing operationaloverhead and need to maintain disparate systems.

Key Features of Geneva World Investor include:

• Investor accounting for both onshore and offshore funds• Investor management with automated reporting and record

keeping• Unlimited fund structures• Private equity support including capital commitment and call

processing, waterfall calculations and capital distributions• Performance fee calculations• GAAP accounting book features

Perform comprehensive investor accountingWhether you perform series accounting or equalization foroffshore investors or layered or aggregate partnership accountingfor onshore investors, Geneva World Investor is a single solutionthat supports your accounting workflow. For your onshore funds,you can produce U.S. Federal K-1s or provide intra-year tax estimatesto your investors, as well as send accurate, detailed data to youraccounting firm. For your offshore funds, the multi-class, multi-series accounting feature allows flexible yet streamlined workflows,which includes automated series roll-up and a full audit trail.

Partnership accounting for onshore funds:

• Aggregate or layer every period or selected period range• Multiple weighted average capital allocations methods• Incentive fee re-allocation per period per item• Wash sales tax lot analysis and layering adjustments• Cover short-not settled tax lot analysis and layered adjustments• 754 election and 1256 Contracts• Contributed securities and locked in gain/loss per partner

allocations (704c allocations)• Interface with third party tax systems for production of required

state-specific K-1s and form 1065 (Federal K-1s) and associatedschedules

With Geneva World Investor, portfolio management, investor accounting, and

servicing are fully integrated within a single platform, allowing a more efficient

end-to-end solution and lowering total cost of ownership.

Shareholder accounting for offshore funds:

• Multi-class/multi-series accounting• Equalization methodologies• Flexible investor class creation• Automated investor capital account creation per subscription• Automated series creation and reporting• Consolidated view or management style view at all levels• User-defined buy-in NAVs• Series roll-up with audit trail• Performance and asset-based fee calculator to estimate and

book expenses

Support complex structuresUtilize Fund Designer, an interactive workflow tool to easily createfully integrated fund structures that seamlessly automap fromfund through to investor, allocate profit and loss, and track feesand capital flows. Fund Designer enables users to build fundstructures through a single point of entry and view structures asthey are created, enhancing ease of use.

Manage investorsThe Investor Management module is a top-level view of all yourinvestors across all funds. It provides a single, centralized source for investor data, including names, addresses, interested parties,and other attributes. Track an investor’s investments acrossmultiple funds, manage pending transactions, and designate per investment how long the subscription and associatedappreciation must remain in the fund before it can be redeemed.

The Investor Management module supports:

• Client contact information• Investor classes• Entity and sub-entities• Interested party relationships and reporting• ERISA tracking and reporting• Asset-based fee participation• Investor liquidity• Minimum and maximum contributions

Geneva World Investor contains a centralized workflow allowing for the management of complex fund structures, including unlimited tiers formasters/feeders. Its newly-designed allocation engine allows for the simultaneous creation, tracking, and reporting of legal entities, classes, series, and capital activity at both the fund and investor level through a single point of entry.

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Automate reporting with easeProvide superior customer service with unprecedented flexibility to generate data by capital account, investor entity, series, class, orfund.

On-demand reporting features include:

• Economic (book) and tax reporting for every period• Allocation history across all periods• Investor capital statements• TWR and IRR performance reporting• Unconsolidated, consolidated, and/or management style• Distribute through Microsoft Outlook• Save as Excel, PDF, or Word files• Class series reporting• Report across all funds at all levels• Capital call notices, distribution reporting including beneficiary

bank details• Management style investor reporting across all investments

Accurately calculate performance incentive feesGeneva World Investor’s Performance Fee Calculator has theflexibility to make calculating incentive fees simple and efficient,maximizing revenues and minimizing costly errors. Featuresinclude:

• Flexible performance fee calculations• Periodic estimates and accruals• Highwater marks• Exclude investors• Exclude items of P&L• Periodic and/or multiple carve-out investor(s)• Hurdle rate calculations• Payout percentage• Anniversary dates• Flexible incentive periods

GAAP accounting book features:

• Capital changes per investor or tranche• Comprehensive allocation schemes including:

• Pro rata• Uneven or special allocation groups• New issue• Side pockets• Dollar overrides

• Flexible accounting periods• Capital or unit based

Streamline your workflow and secure your dataGeneva World Investor streamlines your investor servicingworkflow, with a comprehensive system for investor management,accounting, fee calculations, and reporting. Powerful fundrelationship features support complex structures, such as master-feeder or multi-series, so you can automatically flow allocationsthrough to multiple fund entities and view consolidated reports.Fund templates make setting up new funds and partnerships easy,and a flexible data import utility eliminates the need to key in funddata from other systems. Finally, iron-clad user authenticationprohibits unauthorized use by providing custom roles per user withpermissions by fund.

Additional features that simplify your workflow include:

• Automated master-feeder/tiered fund allocations.• Easily rollback into a prior period while retaining all of your data.• Forward process through existing periods.• Future period subscription tracking.• Manage the approval of pending transactions through the

Transaction Manager.• Investor class associations for easy propagation of investor

attributes.• Emailing of periodic, monthly, quarterly, or annual report

packages to investors and interested parties.• Periodic book and tax reporting with performance returns.

Invest in side pocketsWhen you invest in a side pocket, Geneva World Investor creates aside pocket capital account for every participating “liquid” capitalaccount in the fund, for each side pocket investment. If you licenseWorld Investor, you also have the option to accrue and charge aperformance incentive fee (PIF) against the capital in the sidepocket that is different than the fees for the “liquid” capital in thefund.

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Fund Designer enables users to create fund structure through a single point of entry and view thosestructures as they are created.