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Digital Transformation of Investment Manager Due Diligence and Monitoring Made Easy
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Who we work with
We keep you connected, helping investors and managers utilize the industry’s best practices in efficient, secure, and automated ways with our cutting-edge due diligence software platform.




We are Diligend, a leading software solution for due diligence.
An advanced holistic solution for data collection, analysis, reporting and monitoring.
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Powerful automation tools to gather and organize, qualitative and quantitative data as well as files
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Centralized data repository and CRM to monitor and review information with advanced analytics
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Collaboration and communication tools to manage notes, activities, findings and reviews
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Share insight with dynamic reporting tools, customized document report creation and interactive dashboards
Less Problems more solutions.
Our customers rely on us to solve their due diligence challenges.

Are You
- Struggling through a manual Due Diligence Process?
- Overwhelmed with information and documents overload?
- Worried about missing important updates and information?
- Constantly searching for data scattered across your firm?
- Not 100% sure you have met compliance standards and that your data is accurate?
- Concerned about the time needed for quarterly or annual monitoring?
- Worried about the pressure of new regulations and ever more complex investment strategies on your current process?
- Tiered of waiting for an update of your legacy solution?


Diligend Can Help
- An automated due diligence process that dramatically improves productivity.
- Integrated structured data and file collection that is configured to your needs.
- Process tracking helping you keep things from falling through the cracks.
- A centralized data repository, for everything, making it easier to see the big picture.
- Improved compliance, and audit trails, giving you confidence in your processes and data with greater transparency across the organization.
- Technology that reduces tedious data entry and human error.
- Digital transformation at your own pace, without the need for developers or professional services.


Features Diligend offers
Everything is available right out of the box, easily configurable from our UI. We set you up so you can hit the ground running, provide training and support and you use what you need when you need it.

Questionnaire design
too
Questionnaire design too
Customize due diligence questionnaires
Easily build your own customized due diligence questionnaires (DDQs). Create DDQs by using the embedded Excel import feature, or by utilizing existing questionnaires from our template library. You can specify the types of questions (e.g., those requiring text, multiple choice, tables, files, etc.), as well as weigh the importance of each section and question in your decision process.
Predefine questionnaires by asset class or strategy for more efficient search
Predefine your questionnaires based on the asset class or investment strategy type you are screening to ensure that the process and methodology of your searches remain consistent.
Leverage industry best practices
The library provides you with public questionnaire templates, and standardized due diligence questionnaires (ie. ILPA, AIMA, ESG, etc.). Duplicate existing templates or utilize the most frequently asked due diligence questions posed by the industry.

Reviews and
assessments
Reviews and assessments
Manage in a flexible way fund managers’ reviews based on your own set of criteria for operational or investment purposes.
Structure, digitize and centralize your funds’ assessments.
Rate or assign a score for each review criteria and monitor its evolution over time.
Track and rate findings and issues.

Data exchange
management
Data exchange management
Streamline fund managers’ data exchange process
Eliminate the need for manual intervention and reliance on Office tools (i.e. Outlook, Excel, Word, etc), reducing the risk of potential errors. Through our technology-based questionnaires and data request features, you will have better control of the due diligence or monitoring process.
Automate data requests and due diligence questionnaires distribution
Schedule and automate data requests and due questionnaires sending to hundreds of managers with just a few clicks. Request specific information from managers in a predefined format at any point in time.
Automate flagging and scoring of fund managers responses
Predefined flexible rules allowing an automated assessment and ranking of responses.

Fund Managers data
collection and scoring
Fund Managers data collection and scoring
Store all managers ‘responses, data, and documents in a single place
The solution enables you to keep all managers responses to questionnaires, all data submitted based on a custom request and all related documents in one place. You can then easily search, retrieve and keep track of all collected information.
Collect data in a normalized way
By collecting data in a normalized way, you avoid heavy work of compiling managers’ responses received in different formats. The feature significantly increases the efficiency of the information analysis and managers scoring.
Leverage on the flexible scoring engine features
The module offers powerful scoring capabilities. Flexible scoring engine features enable you to easily assess, compare and rank managers involved in your due diligence process.
Keep a high level of data security
Data submitted by managers gets collected and exported through a secured platform, thus providing maximum security for all the information received during the selection process.

Fund and strategy
management
Fund and strategy management
Manage funds and strategies
The system enables you to manage your list of funds or strategies, to organize them by preferred criteria (e.g., asset class, geographic focus, benchmark, ect.), and link them to managers records. You can input products data or upload them using Excel, also link documents, emails and tasks thus centralizing all information.
Monitor data
Update and monitor the characteristics, returns and any data point of the funds and strategies you are following. The system enables you also to set a custom monthly ‘star rating’ for each fund or strategy and monitor their trends based on your own criteria.
Organize funds and strategies within watchlists
The module contains tools to customize your buy, hold or sell list of managers by asset class, investment strategy or other criteria. You can organize your funds and strategies within watchlists, amend them monthly if needed and make sure they are shared in real-time with investment team members.

Research, Communication
and Contact Management
Research, Communication and Contact Management
Manage your research, centralize all communication and documents exchange within a single place
The platform provides you with tools allowing an easy upload and effective management of your research, calls or meetings notes, Emails, documents, and any activity related to your external managers. Information can be organized by specific types and linked to a manager, a contact, a fund, a mandate, or a questionnaire.
Outlook Synchronization:
Synchronize your emails and keep track automatically of all email exchanges with external managers and any third party companies contacts
Communicate with registered managers through the platform
You can easily access the contact details of all global registered managers and their team members and communicate with them through the platform.
Retrieve research notes and documents easily and quickly
The global search technology enables you to retrieve easily and quickly any research note or document, using keywords.

Workflow
engine
Workflow engine
Create workflows specific for each due diligence or monitoring process
Set rules, allocate tasks and define timeframes. Organize the entire due diligence process and ensure your investment team is following a predefined process, set according to the type of asset class or investment strategy that you are screening for.
Facilitate the flow of information, documents, and tasks
Supported by an audit trail, the solution offers you transparency and traceability. It enables you to organize all activities done during each stage of the selection process. It also facilitates the retrieval of all documents, questionnaires sent and received responses. Thus, it limits the risk of losing valuable data and documents, while facilitating information sharing and collaboration.
Keep track of the selection process status stage by stage
The workflow module enables you to monitor each stage of the selection process. You will be able to easily track when managers have progressed to the various stages of the search. Additionally, you can evaluate what criteria allowed certain managers to advance, and what caused others to be excluded.
Increase the speed of due diligence screening and monitoring
Since all stages of due diligence are supported through a specifically configured workflow, the speed and efficiency of your screening and monitoring processes are optimized.

Audit trail and
alerts
Audit trail and alerts
Keep track of the activities in real time
The system enables you to keep track of your team activities during the due diligence process in real time. All data changes in the system are tracked. Get immediate notifications about managers’ due diligence questionnaires activities: who accepted to participate, who submitted responses, whose responses have been scored, etc.
Manage your users’ rights
Define by user or a group of users the data access and which actions they are allowed to do with each feature.
Receive alerts on clarifications requests or other events
Manage in real time questions specific clarifications requests submitted by managers during a live due diligence process.

Tailored reporting
and analytics
Tailored reporting and analytics
Exploit ready-to-use reports and dashboards
Ready-to-use reports and dashboards allow you to easily and quickly analyze your ongoing mandates, managers’ responses, and their investment strategies, thus enabling you to maximize the efficiency of the assessment process.
Export data in Excel or to other third-party systems using Excel or our API
API and also Excel export-based features are available across the different features, allowing you to use data in any other system if needed.
Import Managers, funds and contacts data using Excel or our API
Use Excel templates or our API to import data into the system.

Collaboration and
activity management
Collaboration and activity management
Collaborate through the platform internally and externally
The solution contains tools for smooth and transparent real-time collaboration internally with team members through tasks and information sharing. Externally as well with managers through specific data exchange requests. Also, and If allowed to do so, managers can send you real time clarifications requests on specific questions related to an ongoing due diligence questionnaire.
Keep track of all interactions
You can keep track of all interactions (meetings, calls, document and information exchanges, etc.), and link them to related managers, strategies or mandates.
Make collaboration more efficient
The platform enables you to assign specific tasks to team members or managers and have a follow-up on the assigned tasks.
Customers we serve
We serve both the investors and managers with distinct solutions.
Asset Owners & Allocators
Asset Owners & Allocators
Banks, Pensions, Endowments, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Insurance Companies, Investment Advisors, Family Office
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Consultants
Consultants
Consultants, Advisors, OCIOs
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Asset Managers
Asset Managers
Investment Advisors, Traditional Funds, Hedge Funds, Private Equity, Real-Estate, Infrastructure
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We are what people say about us.
Customer we serve We know each investor is unique and each due diligence process has important nuances.
As we look to provide the best service to our clients, we have been observing the evolution of technologies in this segment for a while. We found that Diligend was the best fit to our needs and their team aligned to our long-term objectives”

Mark Archer, Director, Investment and Wealth
Advisory, Deloitte Consulting.
The flexible nature of Diligend’s platform combined with their ongoing innovation will enable us to more efficiently support our growing client base and their evolving due diligence needs and expectations. Building upon FEG’s historical diligence efforts with our dedicated ODD practice under development, we identified Diligend as the right fit because their technology solutions will not only help streamline our due diligence processes, but will also enable us to perform critical in-depth analysis and improved reporting on our clients’ investment managers.

Douglas Walouke, CFA, Director of Operational
Due Diligence at FEG.

Senior SWF due diligence Leader
