JP Morgan’s DealVault launches for private equity analysis - superior late than never?
Posted by: in Financials and AnalyticalsFiled under: Financials and analyticals, Private equity industry
JP Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) has announced the launch of DealVault. This is a new technology that tracks private equity investments valuations, performance, risk and exposure analysis. JP Morgan’s unit called Private Equity Fund Services (PEFS) developed the system to provide CFOs, deal and investor relations professionals with a platform to centralize deal tracking information.
DealVault will also integrate with bookkeeping and back office systems, in order to grant administration one platform. Private equity managers will be able to store portfolio company information in a web-based solution, package information in an auditor-friendly format, grant independent valuation reviews, and to cut time spent aggregating and reconciling volumes of data.
This “PEFS” unit already provides a full suite of administration services to private equity firms, real estate firms, and institutional investors; and it currently services more than 200 funds representing $50 billion in committed capital, and serves the world’s largest institutions with $110 billion in aggregate committed capital across thousands of private equity investments.
Does something seem wrong or off about the timing of this launch? In 2006 this would have garnered much attention. In 2007 it would have been mandatory. While the billionaires are all supposed to be immune to economic sensitivity, that just isn’t quite holding up right now. Another wave of private equity will come again, at least that’s what history dictates. But the launch timing is probably one that could have been picked better.
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