TOTAL PLAN SOLUTION:
THE CAISSA PLATFORM
The Burgiss Data and Analytical Platform for the Modern Allocator
The Caissa Platform is the industry-leading investment analytics platform, developed exclusively for institutional allocators such as endowments, foundations, OCIOs, pension funds, and family offices. Clients representing over $1.7 trillion in assets leverage our web-based platform to perform exposure, risk, liquidity, attribution, and private equity modeling analysis across multi-asset class portfolios.
HARMONIZE
Burgiss’ data teams aggregate any form of transparency data into the Caissa Platform, including investor letters, separately managed accounts, private equity data, and 13Fs. The data is cleansed, harmonized, migrated, and integrated into the platform.
ANALYZE
With harmonized exposures that allow for full aggregation across all asset classes and investment vehicles, you can seamlessly perform exposure, risk, liquidity, attribution, and quantitative analysis of your portfolio or your underlying managers.
MONITOR
Free from the burden of data maintenance and armed with the Caissa Platform, your investment team can monitor investments, visually spot manager style drift, and leverage the platform’s automated alerts to be notified of a manager’s mandate breach.
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HOW IT WORKS
UNPARALLELED EXPOSURE LOOK-THROUGH AND POWERFUL RISK ANALYTICS
Exposure Management
Analyze your entire portfolio’s universe of investments, including hedge funds, SMAs, long-only funds, venture capital funds, and private equity funds. Drill-down flexibility allows you to integrate exposure analysis with liquidity and answer questions such as:
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Across my entire portfolio, what percentage of the total exposure is in energy?
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Within energy, what percentage is common stock exposure?
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What percentage of that energy common stock is redeemable within three months?
Risk Management
Leverage your exposures to conduct holdings-based stress tests, as opposed to relying on historical returns to assess risk. Evaluate how your portfolio and your managers would fare in various situations, such as if the interest rates went up 1%, if the Standard & Poor’s (S&P) went down 20%, or if a historical event (e.g., subprime crisis) were to occur.
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INTEGRATED PORTFOLIO CONSTRUCTION TOOLS TO STREAMLINE DECISION-MAKING
Liquidity Analysis
Capture complex hedge fund liquidity terms by considering parameters such as investor-level gates and irregular cycles. Aggregate terms to easily assess portfolio rebalancing opportunities. Avoid costly mistakes by setting up automated reminders for upcoming exit opportunities.
What-If Modeling
Model future transactions by adding potential managers, forecasting cash flows, or planning allocations and redemptions with existing managers. Dynamically view the projected changes to portfolio exposures to ensure that the projected portfolio is aligned with your investment objectives.
A REPOSITORY FOR YOUR INSTITUTION'S COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
Reporting
Create flexible and customizable reports with user-friendly graphs and charts that can easily be exported into a PDF reporting package, which is ideal for reporting to individual clients or to a board.
Excel API
An organization's most important asset is information, so we make sure that it flows freely. Data can be seamlessly imported or exported using our fully integrated Microsoft Excel API.
ASSESS THE CONTRIBUTIONS TO YOUR PORTFOLIO’S PERFORMANCE
Quantitative Analytics
Compare the returns of your portfolio or that of any current or prospective manager to thousands of preloaded, customizable benchmarks to quickly determine performance analytics such as alpha, rolling beta, standard deviation, and drawdown analysis.
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Attribution
Reach data-driven assessments of a manager’s core competencies by viewing the factors that drove their performance. Analyze the cumulative sources of both a manager’s and your portfolio’s returns across long/short positioning, asset classes, sectors, position size, or any customized dimension. Compare attribution to a benchmark in order to measure the results of active versus passive investing.
MANAGE PRIVATE EQUITY INVESTMENTS WITH ADVANCED MODELING TOOLS
J-Curve Analysis
Anticipate future cash needs and visualize your portfolio’s expected evolution. Automatically aggregate actual and forecasted private equity cash flows and asset values at the portfolio level to model asset allocation shifts and gain visibility into future liquidity profiles.
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Pacing Model
Build highly customizable private equity pacing models to project each investment’s future capital calls, distributions, and net asset values. Architected for scale, you can apply models at the strategy level, and then fine-tune model forecasts at the individual fund level.
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PERFORMANCE BOOK OF RECORDS AND SHADOW ACCOUNTING
Performance Book of Records
Streamline the ongoing maintenance of Accounting Book of Record (ABOR) and Investment Book of Record (IBOR) by utilizing the Caissa Platform’s Book Closing Calendar functionality. View your performance on a time-matched and lagged basis using a single set of portfolio accounting data and a customizable book closing schedule.
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Shadow Accounting
Shadow your service provider’s performance services by maintaining an independent set of books and records in the Caissa Platform. Use Caissa’s real-time performance engine to create composites and slice-and-dice performance on the fly.
