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Case study
Revolutionising NAV reporting for scalable growth in private markets.
Revolutionising NAV reporting
Strategic partnership with SEI helps deliver dramatic improvements.
A client urgently needed to shorten its net asset value (NAV) reporting timeline and enhance operations to remain competitive and meet demands from regulators and investors. A strategic partnership with SEI delivered dramatic improvements, including a NAV timeline compressed by 50% and a nearly 30% rise in business growth.
The challenges
- Increasing pressure from investor and regulatory demands.
- Scaling a complex and evolving global platform.
- Burdened by legacy processes and lack of digitisation.
The results
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NAV timeline compressed by 50%
The time required to report NAV was cut in half, dramatically improving the client’s ability to provide timely updates to investors and stakeholders.
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Nearly 30% growth during transformation
Demonstrating the solution’s scalability and its capacity to handle increased workloads without compromising performance.
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Enhanced investor onboarding
The collaboration led to a positive shift toward automation and streamlined processes—setting the stage for future growth.
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Improved daily operating model
Implementing tech-driven straight-through processing enabled a daily operating model where data is consumed, reconciled, and extracted by the client via API daily—an industry-leading leap in data access and automation.
Trust and collaboration.
Meet three SEI team members as they discuss our approach to this strategic partnership.
Eoghan Gaffney
We understand that strong partnerships are built on trust and collaboration, and this is something that we bought to the forefront when working with a leading private markets manager. The success of the project came down to understanding our clients' requirements, their challenges, but also the invested demands that they're facing.
For the project to be a success, we had to leverage our internal strengths and to do so, we broke the project into three core segments, focusing on people, process, and technology. Collaboration was essential to everything. Through our partnership, we developed robust governance and framework. It was imperative that we communicated effectively with our client, but also ensured that all of their needs were at the forefront of all of our decisions. Our shared goal was simple but powerful: to develop a solution that was not only effective, but scalable for our client's future success.
I think the results speak for themselves. We streamlined the NAV reporting period. We achieve 50% NAV compression alongside overseeing 30% business growth. I think this is a real life example of how when you deploy leadership, technology, and collaboration all at once, you can achieve real results in an ever evolving industry.
Client partnerships at the forefront of everything we do At SEI, we collaborate with our clients in order to open future doors. We've enhanced our relationship with the client globally, which will help us grow and navigate through an ever evolving industry. This is just the beginning of a long-term global partnership, one that we'll continue to drive growth, success, and innovation.
Aoife McMahon
Hi, I'm Aoife McMahon. I'm a senior fund accountant here at SEI.
At SEI, we create a partnership with our clients through a five point strategy to align with our clients' long-term goals. We began by focusing on streamlining data operations and using cutting edge technology. This allowed us to automate manual processes and deliver faster, more accurate results. Our leadership team was fully invested in the transformation. This commitment allowed us to deliver an exceptional solution tailored to the client's needs.
Setting expectations and tracking progress was a key element to this project. This ensured key milestones were met. We challenged traditional methods to write this project. This enabled us to deliver faster and better results. SEI focuses on long-term partnerships to align with client's goals, both now and also in the future. It wasn't just about the immediate challenge, it was about a long-term solution to support the client's future growth. SEI's five-point strategy positions clients for the next phase of their growth.
Andrew Hyland
Hi, I'm Andrew Hyland, senior manager for investment operations for SEI.
At SEI, we're at the forefront of technology, helping our clients streamline their operations. We partnered with a client to remove manual process. This allowed us to streamline delivery of data to our client. This shift allowed us to automate key tasks and improve efficiency.
We introduced technology to standardize data as it was essential for us to be able to live and breathe a daily environment, which in turn allows our clients to deliver to their underlying investors. Through the use of technology, we reduce NAV compression time by 50%. As we reduce NAV timelines, the client increased their business by 30%. This transformation was not about solving today's problem for our client, it was about positioning the client for future growth.
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