Dynamo for Asset Allocators
Performance Analytics & Benchmarks
Dynamo’s extensive investment calculations enable LPs to dynamically view investment returns individually, by asset class subset, and by portfolio. Performance can be further visualized by methodology (TWRR MD vs. IRR, etc.), or over user-specified time periods. Users can analyze performance against unlimited benchmarks.
Quickly deliver answers to critical performance questions through:
Look Through Returns
How has Fund A performed since inception relative to its sub-asset class, asset class, and primary benchmark? Versus the portfolio for the last 1, 3, or 5 years?
Composite Analysis
How have subset X of Portfolio Y’s investments performed collectively YTD? If we hadn’t invested in those funds, what would our portfolio’s returns have been?
Benchmark Blending and Policy Benchmarks
How do Portfolio B’s returns compare to a benchmark composed of 70% ALL World Index and 30% Domestic Equity over the past 10, 15, or 20 years?
“After purchasing the product on the claim of industry know-how, we’re happy to have benefited from Dynamo Software’s ongoing delivery on their promise.”
– Investment Officer, University Endowment, Dynamo Client
Private Investment Analytics
Dynamo’s multi-asset class platform delivers extensive private investment analytics. From multi-level remaining commitment and J-Curve visualizations to IRR and PME calculations, Dynamo seamlessly supports decision-making for LPs with complex private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources portfolios.
Turn complex private market data into clear, actionable insights:
Performance Analysis
How does the IRR of our buyout portfolio compare to that of venture since its inception? How do funds in Vintage Year 2016 compare to those in 2017?
Cashflow Analysis
How do our total capital calls, distributions, and remaining commitments so far this year compare to last year’s?
Fund Analytics & Research
We’re meeting with the manager of Fund A tomorrow. How can I quickly review the fund’s cashflows, holdings, PME, and notes from our last manager meeting?
“Previously the team would sink hours searching through spreadsheets to aggregate, consolidate, and quality check key data points from various sources. With Dynamo’s automated reports, something that took four hours we can now do in the click of a button.”
– Reporting Analyst, Private Equity Fund of Funds, Dynamo Client
Cash Flow Forecasting
Dynamo’s cash flow forecasting capabilities are rooted in, and extend beyond, the Yale Endowment Model. Users can tailor cash flow model variables and associate relevant invested or hypothetical committed funds. Dynamo then dynamically calculates projected future cash flows and valuations for these private investments, incorporating actual investment-to-date data.
Transform your liquidity planning with Dynamo’s Cash Flow Forecasting and confidently address:
Cash Flow Projections
How much cash should we have on hand to pay capital calls through the remainder of this year?
Leveraging Actuals
How much of our needed liquidity should be generated by our invested funds via distributions and returns of capital?
Allocation Targets
How much of our needed liquidity should be generated by our invested funds via distributions and returns of capital?
Discover how Dynamo’s Cash Flow Modeling can revolutionize your investment strategy. Learn more by viewing the brochure.
“Dynamo overlays the historic cash flows with the projected cash flows. Dynamo also allows us to project at the partnership level and then analyze at the investor level.”
– CFO, Fund of Funds, Dynamo Client
Exposure
Dynamo enables multi-asset class institutional investors to interactively analyze their exposures across investor, portfolio, manager, fund, and holding levels. The platform’s look-through capabilities apply to myriad exposure verticals including region, sector, asset class, currency, country of risk, and security type.
Navigate exposures with precision—Dynamo helps you answer questions like:
Comparisons
Based on prospective Buyout Funds A and B’s holdings, which would best fit with our international exposure targets?
Look-Through
Which of our invested funds constitute our exposure to Financial Technology? What are our underlying holdings and their position sizes?
Integrated Research
Two of our managers have sizable positions in the Middle East. Given geopolitical developments, how can I reread our corresponding manager meeting notes?
“The data and processes needed for accurate exposure analysis always seemed daunting to us. Thankfully, Dynamo has taken the burden of data aggregation and scrubbing off our shoulders. Navigating our exposures is now as easy as opening a dashboard in Dynamo.”
– CIO, Pension Fund, Dynamo Client
Dynamo HoldingsInsight
A flagship offering of Dynamo Data Services, Dynamo HoldingsInsight acquires, enriches, and consolidates the data on your portfolio’s underlying investments using a team of dedicated analysts. The HoldingsInsight team follows an extensive operational due diligence process to deliver accurate and timely holdings data to your Dynamo environment.
Empower your investment team with enriched HoldingsInsight:
Multi-Asset Class Data Collection
How can we provide the high-quality holdings analytics our investment team needs while minimizing operational overhead and cost?
Look-Through Transparency
Across our private equity fund managers who have delivered the greatest distributions YTD, what are the financials of their largest unrealized holdings by NAV?
Fund Holdings Comparison
How do the holdings of Fund A and Fund B differ given their overlapping strategies? What related questions should we ask at our next manager meetings?
“Dynamo’s HoldingsInsight service has shifted our attention from internal operations to the fund holdings analytics that matter most to us.”
– INVESTMENT OFFICER, Fund of Funds, Dynamo Client
Marketable Investment Analytics
Dynamo’s multi-asset class platform provides broad-based marketable investment analytics. From calculations such as Sortino Ratio and Standard Deviation, to benchmark comparisons such as Correlation and Beta, Dynamo facilitates decision-making for hedge funds, hedge fund of funds, and long only investors.
Make smarter investment decisions with immediate access to:
Risk Metrics
How do the Sharpe Ratios, Standard Deviations, Max Drawdowns, Sortino Ratios, and Alphas compare for Funds X and Y?
Correlation & Beta
How correlated is Fund A with Portfolio Y? How do Fund A’s beta and Growth of $1,000 compare to other funds in its sub-sector?
Liquidity & Exposure
We’re meeting onsite with Fund X’s manager tomorrow. How can I easily get up to speed on its returns, risk metrics, available liquidity, and exposure?
“Each member of our investment team operates as a generalist. Dynamo’s asset class-specific analytics allow me to consistently find the key data points needed, regardless of the investment that I’m reviewing.”
– CIO, Endowment, Dynamo Client
Liquidity
A recurring challenge for LPs is distilling complex liquidity terms into an actionable dashboard of their current and future liquidity. Dynamo’s liquidity engine leverages fund subscriptions, redemptions, and performance data already tracked within the system to calculate upcoming notice dates, payment dates, available redemption amounts, and other key data points based on fund class liquidity terms.
Simplify complex liquidity terms into actionable insights with Dynamo and quickly address:
Notice Dates
How can we avoid missing upcoming notice dates across our portfolio?
Liquidation
What’s the soonest we can fully redeem Fund A given its soft lockup and quarterly gates, both with and without penalty?
Portfolio Liquidity
How much available liquidity will we have in Q2 from available redemptions versus forecasted private equity distributions?
“Missing a notice date used to be a painful and unfortunately common experience for us. Dynamo’s liquidity engine has helped us shift our time from tracking liquidity data to utilizing it for decision-making.”
– INVESTMENT OFFICER, Family Office, Dynamo Client
Portfolio Projections
Dynamo enables portfolio allocation planning, liquidity/cash management, and stress testing by leveraging the latest asset-class tailored methodologies. Expected manager performance and primary benchmark values are used as near-term proxies for marketable investments. For longer-term projections, growth rate assumptions are applied. Conversely for illiquid fund investments, leading edge advanced cashflow and fair value forecasts are incorporated. After incorporating hypothetical cashflows and commitments, future projected allocations are then visualized through time and versus user-specified targets. Furthermore, stress tests can be applied to examine impacts on portfolios of extreme movements in the financial markets, identify hidden vulnerabilities, understand how portfolios might weather adverse events and market conditions.
Easily find answers to questions like:
Allocation Planning
We’d like to gradually exit our underperforming funds in EMEA over the next few quarters. What would be the impact of our expected hypothetical cashflows and potential new commitments versus our asset class allocation targets?
Stress Testing
If we’d like to make a significant commitment to Private Equity Buyout Fund A, and given its expected sector and region exposures, how much will our illiquid investments perform through various stress tests?
Cash Position
If we receive distributions from Funds B and C in Q1, then exit Funds D and E in Q2, how much cash will we have available to invest in Q3?
“Now we have time to focus on investment decision-making instead of spending time aggregating and massaging data.”
– INVESTMENT OFFICER
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
LPs use Dynamo to centralize investment data, automate reporting, gain deeper portfolio transparency, improve forecasting accuracy, simplify liquidity management, and access advanced analytics across both private and public market investments within a single platform.
Dynamo HoldingsInsight is a data service that captures, normalizes, and enriches underlying portfolio holdings data from financial statements. It helps investment teams analyze exposure across sectors, geographies, asset classes, and other dimensions while reducing the burden of manually collecting and maintaining complex holdings data.
Dynamo helps investment teams forecast capital calls, distributions, valuations, allocations, and future portfolio cash flows using investment data and configurable assumptions. Teams can also perform what-if and stress-testing analysis to evaluate possible portfolio outcomes.
Yes. Dynamo allows investment teams to compare portfolio performance with dynamic policy benchmarks, evaluate investments and asset classes against primary benchmarks, and assess portfolio allocations relative to policy targets. These tools help institutional investors identify potential allocation gaps and determine appropriate next steps.
Dynamo’s cash flow forecasting capabilities are based on and extend beyond the Yale Endowment Model. Users can model capital calls, distributions, valuations, and future cash flows using actual investment data and customized forecasting assumptions.
Dynamo provides extensive investment performance calculations that allow users to evaluate returns at the investment, asset class, and portfolio levels. Users can compare performance using methodologies such as IRR and benchmark results against custom performance benchmarks.
Yes. Dynamo offers flexible service models that allow firms to co-source selected fund administration responsibilities or use an end-to-end managed service. This gives fund managers the flexibility to select a model that fits their internal resources and operational requirements.
Yes. Dynamo supports automated workflows for capital calls and distributions, along with fund accounting and investor reporting capabilities. Its reporting tools include built-in reports and support for industry reporting standards, helping fund managers and administrators deliver timely information to general partners and limited partners.
Dynamo Accounting is a general ledger-based fund accounting platform designed for alternative investment firms. It supports transaction recording, partnership allocations, valuations, IRR calculations, waterfall allocations, financial reporting, investor notices, account statements, and quarterly reporting.
Dynamo combines fund administration expertise with a cloud-based technology platform designed for private equity, venture capital, real estate, and fund-of-funds managers. Its fund administration services can support fund accounting, investor reporting, capital calls, distributions, lifecycle workflows, and LP communications while helping firms maintain transparency and auditability.
