Streamline investment data management with Investment Hub

Ultra-high-net-worth families and institutional asset owners typically have portfolios that span multiple asset classes, data sources and currencies, and these investments may be spread across various legal entities such as holding companies, operating companies, trusts and foundations. This complexity makes creating a single source of truth difficult and time-consuming. Not only does this impact operational efficiency, but it can also have consequences for decision making that could ultimately lead to unexpected losses. 

Maintaining a single source of truth represents an ongoing resource commitment, meaning asset owners need tools that make the management of assets, portfolios and legal entities as simple as possible. That’s why we’ve built Investment Hub.  

Investment Hub is a powerful and intuitive tool within Sesame to manage all aspects of your investment portfolio. Whether you need to make minor adjustments to data that has arrived through a custodian feed, upload the latest transactions in your private equity portfolio, or manage a custodied portfolio in the unlikely case an automated data feed is not feasible. Investment Hub provides you with more control and flexibility than ever before, while saving you time as you keep your single source of truth up to date.

Let’s take a closer look at what it offers.

Easily create and manage legal entities

Legal entity dashboard within Investment Hub  

The highest level object in any investment structure is the legal entity. Within legal entities, you can quickly create ownership, and see an overview of your legal entities. You will see your legal entity's latest published date, its market value, and the custodians of portfolios linked to that entity.

Individual legal entity view with multiple portfolios

Within specific legal entities, you can view child portfolios and navigate to the documents, tasks, and notes, and view all activities related to the legal entity. For any legal entity and its child portfolios, you'll also see high-level details, ensuring you can quickly access all the vital contextual information you need, all in one place. You can also use Investment Hub to assign a benchmarks to your portfolios and legal entities, with the ability to choose between private and public assets. Here, you’ll also have the option to choose a simple or composite benchmark, depending on your requirements.

Exert more control over custodian data

Custodied portfolios dashboard  

The custodied portfolio section contains all portfolios which receive positions and transactions from your custodians, investment managers, brokers, and portfolio management systems.  

In Investment Hub you can quickly change transaction sub-types and/or descriptions for individual transactions. For example, if a custodian has incorrectly labelled a management fee, you can quickly update it.  Similarly, if the description provided by your custodian is not detailed enough, or contains sensitive information, you can edit the description as required. This will downstream reporting on cash flows remains as accurate as possible.  

For custodied investments in drawdown funds, you may want to complement transactions with details of the deductibility, or fund usage of capital calls, and the source and recallability your distributions. This information can then be included in your private equity metrics calculations. 

You can also upload and link documents directly to individual transactions, helping you to keep an audit trail and central reference point for purchases, sales and fee charges. 

All these capabilities ensure that you have more flexibility to complement the data from custodied feeds with additional information, helping ensure your downstream reporting is as accurate and as detailed as possible.

Seamlessly complete your consolidation with User Portfolios

User portfolios within Investment Hub  

User-managed portfolios are perfect for managing positions and transactions that are not maintained via a custody feed. For example, if you have a portfolio of direct private equity investments, or several collectible assets like property and cars, which you would like to include in your Sesame consolidation, user-managed portfolios ensure that you can maintain your single source of truth within Sesame.

Managing private equity, property and collectibles with transactions

With user-managed transaction portfolios you can easily manage private assets like private equity, property, and loans. This portfolio requires you to input transactions such as purchases, commitments, and capital calls, and Sesame will create the corresponding positions. Users can then maintain these positions through sales, distributions, valuation updates, and Sesame will continue to update the position size and valuation accordingly.  

Any transaction uploaded to Sesame is reviewed and submitted within the review board, ensuring an additional control mechanism. Teams can adopt a four-eyes policy, with the data enterer attaching the source document, for the final reviewer to consult while approving the records.

You will also have contextualised subsequent transactions, which are relevant to your particular asset type, and the ability to add transactions for future dates. This will allow users to book capital calls, interest, and principal repayments that they know will happen in the future. The bulk transaction tool makes this process a seamless exercise, allowing users to create a large number of transactions in one interaction.

Easily submit transactions and valuation updates with Doc AI 

A PE transaction being uploaded to a user-managed transaction portfolio with Doc AI  

Managing commitments, capital calls, distributions and valuation updates can be a slow and error-prone task. With its cutting-edge features, Sesame Doc AI transforms private fund document processing from start to finish, by allowing you to extract key data points from documents and seamlessly process them into your Sesame portfolios. Doc AI works in unison with Investment Hub, removing the burden of manually updating transactions and valuations within your user-managed transaction portfolios.

Managing portfolios by position, where a custodied feed is not feasible

This portfolio type is suited to brokerage account where you have all the transactions, but maintaining all these transactions in Sesame is not achievable as there is not custodian feed available, and managing every transaction manually is unrealistic. By-position portfolios ensure that you can maintain your full consolidation within Sesame with the least effort possible. Pension or life insurance products, which provide policyholders with periodic position breakdowns and performance, can also utilise the position-based portfolio.  

By-position portfolios are managed by adding dates. After choosing a start date, insert the first date as well as the performance or P&L for the period. You can then enter your positions. The bulk import tool makes this task easy for you. After adding a few historical dates in regular increments (quarterly, biannually), you can quickly build up a full history of portfolios. Going forward, add the performance and positions for subsequent dates that you receive from your custodian.

A single dashboard to view all of your assets

In the Assets screen, you will see all of your private assets, as well as the public ones that you have allocated. This is also where you can create new assets. For example, a new private equity fund that you would like to transact in one of your user-managed portfolios. Users will also be able to reuse issuers that they have created before, or issuers classified as public. As with all of the other objects in Investment Hub, you can also link documents, tasks, and notes to illuminate the full context of your investments.

Maintaining your single source of truth has never been easier

Investment Hub empowers you to streamline data management. By integrating assets, legal entities, custodial data, and user-managed portfolios within a single tool, it ensures transparency, control, and flexibility as you maintain your single source of truth. It allows you to efficiently manage assets, portfolios and legal entities, edit custodial data, and upload accurate transaction records with ease. With these tools, you can save time as you manage your consolidation, while exerting even more control over the data used for downstream reporting and analytics.

Ready to simplify your investment data management? Book a demo or contact us today to see how Investment Hub can help you maintain a single source of truth and elevate your portfolio oversight.