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Cascade Suite
Calculation, allocation, and reporting platform for alternative investment managers
Transform and automate accounting and finance activities, historically reliant on manual effort and spreadsheets, with Deloitte’s Cascade Suite. Designed to support operations (e.g., waterfalls, carry plans, portfolio analytics, pre- and post-investment scenario analysis, profit and loss (P&L) allocations), Cascade Suite can help enhance manager decision-making and delivers a scalable approach to data transfer, complex calculations, and stakeholder engagement to improve processes, oversight, and product profitability.
How we can help
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Fees and waterfalls
- Private equity waterfalls, including hurdle rates and preferred return, gross and net internal rates of return (IRRs), catch-up and promote calculations
- Management and performance fee calculations and partner allocations
- Partner capital accounts, capital calls, stock/cash distributions and notices
- High fidelity “what if?” analyses around investment and fund performance
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Carry and rewards
- Comprehensive carry plan, co-investment, and compensation administration solution
- Transparent and custom-branded employee portal with clearly communicated total compensation and dynamic dashboards
- Support for plan and program nuances throughout life cycle of joiners, leavers, vesting, and new plans/awards
- Engage your employees more frequently and with better information while reducing administrative burden and manual effort
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Expense allocations
- Tracking and monitoring costs/expenses and attributing to products
- Employee time tracking portal and general ledger data feeds with approvals and overrides
- Variety of allocation approaches for different expense types and groups
- Detailed expense allocation and product profitability reporting with drilldown
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Why Cascade Suite?
With more than a decade of experience in building software solutions for alternative investments, driving efficiency and automation is core to our values. We bring to bear market-leading technology solutions and an underlying platform to help you evolve your processes.
We focus on building systemic integrations to help you efficiently manage data flow, leveraging workflows so you can address common tasks and operations and promote auditability, while equipping your professionals with advanced reporting and analytics to harness your data and transform stakeholder interactions and decision-making.
Investors, regulators, auditors, employees, and your other stakeholders are asking for more transparency, stricter controls, and a shift from legacy approaches with increasingly compressed deadlines.
We bring auditability on changes, with a maker-checker approach and approvals process embedded in the application. Coupled with extensive audit logs tracking historical changes, exportable calculation reviews and a central calculation library, our platforms are designed to support good governance models and strategies. Our reporting and analytics tools scale with you and allow your professionals to respond to ad hoc questions and produce analyses quickly.
Our core product and services are tailored to you, including our delivery model, branding, calculations, and reports. We are guided by your existing processes and systems, along with future-state goals, to help you reduce additional administrative burden and improve return on investment.
We can deliver the product as a managed service and take care of the data import, calculations, and reporting for you, allowing you to focus on your core competencies. You can also operate the system entirely independently, using Cascade Suite in a software-as-a-service model or even on-premise.
A trusted provider
Cascade Suite and our leading investment management team together are a trusted technology and professional services provider. Our professionals have worked with many of the largest managers and fund administrators, including 47 of the top 50 private equity firms, seven of the top 10 US hedge funds, and a majority of the top 10 fund administrators. We bring this private equity, accounting, fund carry and rewards, and financial technology experience to you.
- More than 700 funds with over $1 trillion in assets under management trust Cascade Suite for calculations and reporting.
- We are continuously investing in innovation and evolving our platform, guided by existing and ongoing projects, the alternative investment industry, and technology trends.
- More than 50 full-time professionals support Cascade Suite product development and implementations. We can also leverage the 10,000+ professionals across Deloitte currently serving investment managers for additional support and areas of experience.
Get in touch to learn more about Cascade Suite as a license implementation or as a managed service. We are happy to answer your questions and provide a demo.
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