Retail Access Funds Solutions

Kroll helps managers and investors in alternative asset funds meet the complex demands of rigorous, timely and frequent valuations and navigate related-party considerations.

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The emergence of new and innovative fund structures is enabling broader access to a wide array of private investment opportunities for individual retail investors. Private asset managers are seeing robust demand for such Retail Access Funds from a class of investors that have had limited access to illiquid investment strategies historically.

Greater access, together with heightened regulatory concerns by the SEC, investor scrutiny and complexity of deal structures, have led to accelerating demand for comprehensive valuation solutions and an increasing need for fairness opinions to support related party transactions.

Kroll is a market leader in providing portfolio valuation services and fairness opinions to the alternative investment community, working with more than 600 leading fund managers and investors globally.

How We Help Fund Managers and Investors

Portfolio Valuation Capabilities

Transaction Opinion Services

Governance – developing best-in-class policies and procedures aligned with industry best practices and regulatory requirements (e.g., Rule 2a-5)
Execution – customized solutions for fair value reporting including resource support, positive assurance and independent valuations
Data – unique insights and market intelligence through dashboards and databases to support front, middle and back-office processes
Platform – design and implementation of consistent, efficient and scalable valuations to meet more frequent (monthly, weekly, daily) reporting needs

Buy-side Fairness Opinion – Kroll provides buy-side FOs when the retail funds are purchasing assets from the GP’s balance sheet or other parties, and support the purchase of initial seed investments as well as the continued growth of funds
Two-sided Fairness Opinion – Kroll provides an opinion to both the purchasing retail fund as well as a selling affiliate that is controlled by the same GP

Portfolio Valuation Capabilities

Governance – developing best-in-class policies and procedures aligned with industry best practices and regulatory requirements (e.g., Rule 2a-5)
Execution – customized solutions for fair value reporting including resource support, positive assurance and independent valuations
Data – unique insights and market intelligence through dashboards and databases to support front, middle and back-office processes
Platform – design and implementation of consistent, efficient and scalable valuations to meet more frequent (monthly, weekly, daily) reporting needs

Transaction Opinion Services

Buy-side Fairness Opinion – Kroll provides buy-side FOs when the retail funds are purchasing assets from the GP’s balance sheet or other parties, and support the purchase of initial seed investments as well as the continued growth of funds
Two-sided Fairness Opinion – Kroll provides an opinion to both the purchasing retail fund as well as a selling affiliate that is controlled by the same GP

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Fairness and Solvency Opinions

Duff & Phelps Opinions is a global leader in Fairness Opinions and Special Committee Advisory, ranking #1 for total number of fairness opinions in the U.S., EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa), Australia and Globally in 2023 according to LSEG (FKA Refinitiv).

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