Real assets fund managers are pursuing ambitious growth targets the coming years to stay ahead of competitors in today’s market, however, they are also facing increasing complexity in their operations and reporting requirements to support such growth ambitions.
This complexity is driven by several key factors, including geographic expansion, asset-level intricacies, growing regulatory burdens, and evolving investor & data demands for greater transparency.
In this rapidly evolving landscape, areas such as Real Estate and Infrastructure are experiencing unprecedented transformation and so fund managers targeting significant portfolio expansion must now navigate a complex web of challenges across the globe and in relation to specific asset types within their portfolios.
As the complexity of portfolios and asset types grows, the role of specialized asset servicers has become increasingly crucial for fund managers striving to meet those targets.
Increasing investor demand
As the Real Assets landscape evolves, real estate sectors like data centres and healthcare are gaining momentum compared to traditional mainstream asset types such as office and retail, and so it is crucial that managers implement the right operating model and infrastructure to enable them to enter new asset classes while maintaining transparency throughout.
Yet, as the complexity of asset classes increase, so too do investors’ needs for accessible data and streamlined processes. Investors are demanding greater transparency and agility, and so managers now need to adopt an increasingly data-centric approach to investment decision-making.
The ability to respond to individual investor obligations – whether that be single investment mandates and/or bespoke side-letter reporting requirements – swiftly and efficiently means that managers need to have robust, flexible operations & infrastructure in place to be able to comply with these ever-growing data demands.
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