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Why do i need a specialized Investor Relations focused solution for document delivery - my Intranet or the accounting package I use does that?

Investor relations is not a static activity - it is dynamic and no matter if you are automating certain tasks you need to have a system that is alive and dynamic to investor needs. FundVault is the only service that focuses exclusively on investor relations – but you need to be convinced that this is an area that requires exclusive attention. Of course it does investor reporting – but not as a ‘functionality’ such as the accounting programs do, but as a core activity that is part of your investor relations. It allows you to focus your time and attention on high value dialogue with investors - and not the logistics of getting standard information to them. Many accounting programs that cost 10 to 20 times FundVault offer some kind of investor reporting functions, andsome fund managers have ‘Intranets’ or ‘Investor Portals’. But none are core to that program’s functionality or as intuitive as FundVault to take investor needs into account. Fund accounting is generally simple and often easily done with $200 boxed packages – it isn’t unusual therefore that many managers will abandon these accounting packages that force everyone in the firm to work differently within a year! Some firms then use these packages only for document delivery - and we suggest that there must be a better way to do that, by using a specialized software that is cheaper and more reliable. The intranets are generally custom made, and expensive. As is the case for most ‘bespoke’ programming, they require constant work, attention and updates – and often falls short of expectations! If an investor portal isn’t dynamic, and does not respond to needs then its utility does not last long.

How are you different from the other docuemnt delivery/reporting firms? There are four main differences: 1) We are dedicated to private Equity and Hedge Funds. Many others are trying to create a generic service that serves everybody - from groups of lawyers to M&A investment banks and pharma companies! There is of course an advantage when a package has been created specifically with needs of a specific group in mind - such as FundVault for the alternative asset manager community - Private Equity and Hedge Funds. 2) Most of our competitors are not collecting 'heads' - like some prominent hosted CRM firms, with a view to go to the stock market, as valuations are often based on numbers of 'users'. Instead we are focused on providing a customised service to you. We can of course offer the convenience of a fully hosted solution, but we can also offer you the service in a box, on a separate server, with or without dedicated support. If you want customisations, we may be able to do those. 3) We are aproximately one third the cost of document delivery firms and one tenth the cost of accounting software firms 4) You are our client - we are not using some clever way to force hedge fund and private equity firms to use our service by making it indispensable to certain large investors, who may 'like to see all their fund investment data' in the same interface. Firstly due to FOIA they will be hesitant for that to be the case, and secondly it would be an unusual way to make a sale for us.

What about the FOIA Issues?

FOIA is a still evolving area, and everyone is unsure of what may be next. We understand that public investors in the US and Europe may be required to disclose the information they have in their files to the public. In such a case, an electronic means of delivering information does not have any specific disadvantage owing to the means it uses to delivering information.  In the case of FundVault the information is never in the customer's premises, it is either on our server, or on your server.Such investors may also wish to have only viewing privileges, which our system is flexible to provide. Also the documents are not sent via email, only alerts are sent out and the viewer/investor then has to login to view his information.