Investment Monitoring and Communications - Associate / Assistant Vice President
iCapital Network is powering the world’s alternative investment marketplace. Our financial technology platform has transformed how advisors, wealth management firms, asset managers, and banks evaluate and recommend bespoke public and private market strategies for their high-net-worth clients. iCapital services approximately $85 billion in global client assets invested in close to 750 funds across more than 125,000 underlying accounts.
iCapital was named Solutions Provider of the Year at the 2020 MMI/Barron’s Industry Awards and selected to the 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 Forbes FinTech 50, a list of the top 50 innovative financial technology companies that are transforming finance through technology.
About the Role
This individual will be responsible for liaising with underlying fund general partners to monitor private equity/credit fund investments across the iCapital platform. In addition, this role will involve actively communicating these updates to internal stakeholders as well as wealth advisors who have clients invested in the funds.
Responsibilities
- Monitor feeder and underlying fund investment performance and create talking points to ensure we meet our fiduciary role in oversight.
- Continue to standardize and improve talking point templates to consistently extract the information needed on underlying portfolio performance. Attend AGMs of underlying funds.
- Assist with coordinating and attending meetings with underlying funds, as our team proactively reaches out biannually for full portfolio reviews.
- Create and update web pages on “Confluence” for new funds and continue to update it daily as information comes in.
- Fund Financial Modeling
- Secondary Sales
- Assist in identifying populations of funds to include in potential secondary sales.
- Perform analysis on secondary sale pricing and cost-benefit analysis. This includes reaching out to all underlying general partners to understand their ultimate fund performance projections and exit timelines and compare that to the pricing bidders are offering today to ultimately make the choice that is in the best interests of our clients.
- After a partner is chosen, host calls with our clients/partners and then if necessary, with underlying clients to explain the process and next steps.
- Host multiple system-wide update calls for clients and advisors with underlying fund managers (i.e., Vista, Blackstone, etc.).
- Client communications, i.e., responding to investor inquiries about fund performance and other questions.
- Continue to help improve the online investment dashboard and find other ways to automate our manual processes.
- Investment Oversight
- Feeder/Access Fund Investment Oversight – work with clients, Legal and Product to analyze and assist in decision making, as needed, on behalf of the feeder funds where we have investment discretion. Assist in preparing materials and presenting items regarding investments (extensions, secondaries, co-invests, term changes) at oversight meetings.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree, CFA Preferred
- Experience with Financial Modeling
- 3-5 years of relevant experience; PE experience (private equity firm, fund of funds, consultant, institutional LP, etc.)
Benefits
iCapital offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes a competitive total compensation program consisting of salary, equity for all full-time employees, annual performance bonus, and an employer matched retirement plan; generously subsidized healthcare with 100% employer paid dental, vision, telemedicine, and virtual mental health counseling; and generous paid time off (PTO) featuring unlimited sick time and parental leave.
As we plan to re-enter our offices in 2021, iCapital will offer most employees the flexibility to work remotely one to two days a week. Every department has different needs, and some positions will be designated in-office jobs, based on their function.
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iCapital Network is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.