Vidrio Financial Investment Solutions

Institutional Investors across the Middle East are evolving rapidly and looking for AI-first strategic solutions that can address challenges in data collection and enrichment, portfolio monitoring, reporting and analytics, diversification strategies, risk mitigation, and more. These investors have unique organizational structures that actively engage in private market assets ranging from venture capital, private credit, private equity, infrastructure, and real estate. Vidrio provides an all-in-one integrated solution to manage complex portfolio investments for pension funds, endowments, family offices, and other large institutional allocators.

Here at Vidrio Financial, we are actively engaged with some of the most prominent regional investors in the Middle East and dedicated to configuring investment solutions that work seamlessly across operational lines while targeting a high degree of Sharia compliance.

Vidrio Financials’ core capabilities include:

Middle East Updated Flywheel Multi-Asset Class Portfolios

Impact Across Multi-Asset Class Portfolios:

Vidrio Financial provides a dynamic AI-enabled platform that supports alternative allocations by providing greater liquidity controls, advanced portfolio planning and benchmarking strategies, fund research, cash flow analytics, and more. Alternative asset allocations actively tracked on the platform include:

Real Estate
Venture Capital and Private Equity
Hedge Funds and Liquid Alternatives
Infrastructure
Sustainability & Impact Investing

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Vidrio Financials' Data Management Solution Flywheel

Data Management Service:

Allocators across the Middle East realize that data accuracy through improved collection, identification, enrichment, and reconciliation is necessary to achieve a total portfolio view. Vidrio believes that accurate investor data is a strategic asset that drives greater transparency, streamlines operations, and improves decision-making and portfolio performance. Key benefits that separate Vidrio from other data providers in the market today include:

2-way communication to help investment teams track past, present, and future allocation decisions with increased quality and timeliness.
Efficient onboarding and organization regardless of the data pipeline source. Data is continuously adding structure, consistency, and a taxonomy that can be relied upon as a true source of intelligence.
Targeted support and education on the ground across the Middle East to provide your team direct access to a business representative to help solve your most pressing challenges. Our clients view Vidrio Financial as a direct extension of their team providing needed support and bandwidth for today's challenges.

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Portfolio Monitoring Solution

With over 30 years of expertise in alternatives, Vidrio helps your investment teams by replacing fragmented portfolio reporting systems with a unified view of your investment allocations. Clients use Vidrio Financial as the backbone for their portfolio management, reporting, investment valuation & reconciliation, risk analytics, research & document management, trade processes, and workflow management needs.

Key benefits include:

Advanced fund research and due diligence processes complemented by flexible workflow tools to help centralize investment data.
Interactive and configurable dashboards to help clients create screens and views based on any data available across the platform.
External database integration.
Run real-time portfolio simulations with customized guidelines.
Advanced risk metrics and analytics regardless of transparency levels and run stress tests through historical scenarios or factor shocks.
Reconcile portfolio valuations to mirror official books of record.
Cashflow Forecasting - easily assign J-Curves to specific investments, vintages, investment strategies, and view upcoming forecasted cashflows, projected performance, and fund liquidity.

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Agentic AI Execution for Alternative Investors

Agentic AI acts as a dynamic decision-maker inside the Vidrio platform by leveraging the best practices of AI automation to enhance and compliment your allocation strategy. Vidrio supports modern-day asset and wealth managers, and asset owners in their AI execution journey in the following ways:

Streamline the time it takes to review investment documents while leveraging keyword searches for specific themes, thereby reducing data noise and boosting investment transparency.

Innovate the ways in which you currently collect, identify, normalize, reconcile, and consume investment data. If your team is still doing things manually across multiple systems then we should talk today.

Leverage advanced analytics and reporting alongside alerts for liquidity transactions, compliance checks, fund and allocation research, and more.

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AI-Enabled Solution + Services

Vidrio provides a state-of-the-art web-based investment solution + services to assist Middle East allocators with every aspect of their investment cycle. We combine AI and human expertise to tailor investment solutions to improve data transparency, portfolio management and construction, trade processing, and more. These benefits allow clients to gain deeper insights into their investments and external manager relationships.

Risk Mitigation

Vidrio Financial takes risk management into account at every phase, not just underlying risk in your positions and underlying holdings, but operational risk, reputational risk, liquidity risk, and exposure. Clients have complete knowledge of the risk they could be assuming at every phase of their investment decision-making process.

Comprehensive Portfolio Monitoring

Vidrio supports various asset classes and securities, including public and private markets, stocks, bonds, commodities, derivatives, liquid alternatives, private equity, real estate, private credit, and more. This coverage allows clients to manage a diversified portfolio effectively while leveraging the power of a single platform for all their needs. Clients can also leverage over 500 benchmarks that come standard on the Vidrio platform or create custom benchmarks that can be used across attribution, exposure, risk analytics, stress testing, portfolio construction, and more.

Accounting and Portfolio Reconciliation Screens

Advanced Reconciliation and Valuation Tools

Vidrio assists portfolio strategists in their valuation journey by monitoring investment and investor positions, valuations, and cash accounts across various asset-class strategies. Capture detailed account-level reconciliation of positions to underlying fund statements and the external portfolio statements of record. Vidrio offers middle office services with the option of reconciliation of all cash bank accounts, FX hedging, and trade support.

Workflows

The Vidrio Workflow system helps our clients reduce operational risk and can be used by marketing teams to build trust with potential investors by showcasing how our firm adopts and adheres to best practices. Workflows are employed throughout the investment process, including due diligence, investment monitoring, and fund subscription/redemption processes.

Agentic AI

Normal AI systems can eventually become challenged with the quantity of documents being delivered across alternative investment pipelines. Vidrio's agentic AI formula expands investment team efficiencies by configuring neural networks and machine learning to evaluate and problem-solve alternative data collection, portfolio construction, and reporting challenges.

Fund Monitoring

Vidrio Financial brings fund monitoring to the next level across private market assets and hedge funds. Clients can expect first class service in monitoring historical and ongoing transactions, valuation data, fund documentation, assets under management, holdings details, and much more. Through our partnership tiers, clients can quickly evaluate the level of fund monitoring service that works best for their needs as their investments accelerate.

Investor Portals

Vidrio's investor portal is designed for institutional investors who need a sharable dashboard but want full control over what reports are shared externally. Through this portal, clients can view performance metrics, asset allocations, investment documents, track portfolio cashflow transactions, and risk metrics, including stress tests and historical scenarios. Clients have applauded our investor portals for their strength in data centralization, portfolio transparency, security, and user-friendly interface.

Risk Management

At Vidrio, we integrate risk management into every partnership with institutional investment clients. Our risk engine evaluates the risks in your positions and holdings, combining them with operational, reputational, and liquidity risks. This approach provides a comprehensive view of the risks you may face during your investment decisions. Clients can then use this information for a complete 360-degree risk analysis, incorporating both quantitative and qualitative metrics.

Alternatives Find a New Home: A Guide to the GCC

Alternatives find a new home: A practitioner's guide to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)

In partnership with AW Research, Vidrio Financial highlights some of the allocator observations that are surfacing across the GCC from increased investment activity, most attractive asset classes, first-person accounts of how and why business in the region has evolved and where it might be headed in the near future.

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Part 1: Vidrio Financials' GCC Grand Tour

Part 1: Vidrio Financials' Gulf Cooperation Council Grand Tour

What are some of the priorities of asset managers/wealth managers across the region? What are the core investments of the portfolio today and how much of these investments are in cruise control? Take a look back at some of Vidrio's early findings on the GCC and what groundwork is left to cover for allocators that want to target the region.

Alternative Investment Solutions for Middle East Allocators