GRACE helps keeping track of investor goals, guidelines, and restrictions along with their investments, redemptions and compliants as well to share disclosures with them 

Standardized questionnaires based on industry frameworks UNPRI, SFDR etc. can be setup and managed on GRACE

You can record all the information gathered from and about the firm into the central repository. Each firm can be sent online questionnaires for ESG Due diligence and data can be gathered including supporting documents in an easy, flexible and comprehensive way.

Findings and documents received including from vendors, services providers and third parties like fraud investigation, background checks, legal due diligence, counter parties etc. can be included in the findings.

Analysis of findings to record risk levels of each information gathered can help you arrive at a risk score for each firm and be able to compare organizations based on their risk scores.

Investment Reviews can be conducted from this single source to arrive at the selection / rejection with record of selection / rejection reasons.asons.

GRACE provides functionality for ongoing monitoring of the firms and ESG data in the portfolio.

It offers calendaring facility and set up for ongoing monitoring items to be set up on each firm. These could be onetime or recurring tasks. Each event can also be assigned to  task owners on whose individual calendars these task would show up. The system will also provide alerts on due dates to the task owners for their follow up with the firm , counter parties and vendors.

The task owner can gather data including information and documents and add them to the GRACE system against the check and highlight any risks seen while recording

GRACE with its single source of truth can provide easy to use analytics on Material Risks and Metrics as per SFDR on each fund in the Portfolio. It can also show data on trends in each of the aspects of ESG over periods of time to see they show positive or negative trends towards meeting the goals

Investors goals and the portfolio trends to meet the investor goals can also be seen

Risk trends on vendors, counter parties and the organization’s exposures can be seen quickly

Risk reports, data calendars, due diligence status, ongoing calendars, firms in the portfolio that are not providing proper reporting can be seen for followup.

The analytics, charting and drill downs together give  you a complete picture of state of each investment for early migitation of risks.

Stewardships and Site visits are an important component of due diligence done by actually meeting people and verifying internal ESG and other processes,service providers, compliance, fund administrators and ensuring that the information provided by the firm matches their actual actions as well as help with mid-course corrections and Stewardships to help the firms to help meet the investment goals.

GRACE allows you to set up Site visit plans, inherit from the standard site visit checklist and update it with additional items and checks that would be fine tuned to the particular visit.

With its tablet / mobile interface, you can invoke the checklist during the visit and enter the findings right into the system during the due diligence exercise so as to capture all the information received. Findings can be analysed, risk rated and reviewed to get a picture of the organization

GRACE can offer functions for uploading up Financial Statements, Auditor Comments, NAV and other reporting information that the funds, portfolio companies may be giving you in excel formats.

GRACE provides both data load and data entry functions to facilitate the data to be brought into the system

GRACE can help set up committees, assign responsibilites, coordinate attestation of responsibilities, manage meetings, action items and assign responsibilities for tasks and task managment reporting

GRACE can help manage disclosures, their reviews and release process. GRACE can also help sending the latest disclosures to investors in a timely manner.

GRACE ESG Dashboard is a powerful tool that allows the organization to get  latest information on the prospective and current portfolio firms. Slice and dice by firm type,strategy, geography, fund currency, fund country, status of selection, by active firms, suspended firms, rejected firms along with drill down on the complete history of all data and documents on the firm until date provides valuable information.  Data on site visits, risks identified, risk trends seen from ongoing data gathering, audit data from the single source makes it easy for zeroing on challenges with the firm right away.

Investment committees and Risk Committees can review all this information from the same single source of truth on a real-time basis to map them to investment goals and help can suggest mid-course corrections where needed

Establishing the process through GRACE can ensure helps meet ESG goals comprehensively and is meet the  defined ESG standards and greenwashing is prevented

By offering Online portals and keeping in continous touch with funds and companies,  firms where investments are being  made can be comprehensively analysed for their strengths and weaknesses in their ESG processes. Mitigation actions can be taken early to help them meet their ESG defined goals through stewardship and other mechanisms to prevent failures.

Trends of risk in various firms where you have investments, their vendors and counter parties can be very quickly identified with visual analytics , dashboards and drill downs and risk mitigation steps can be taken early

Will all documents, data, reviews, audit trails, analytics and easy to use queries and reports, GRACE becomes the central repository of the Single Source of Truth for the organization and avoids duplication and inefficiencies from trying to find out the latest information.

This feature enables the due diligence team to be empowered to have information on hand as soon as they need it, to refer back and look at previous interactions with the firm and ask the right questions

With an integrated web based access anytime anywhere, there is no need for risk reports to be generated in various departments to present to senior management. All that effort, costs and time can be saved.

Organizations suffer when key risk and compliance staff leaves. The information is scattered if maintained solely by individuals and are lying on disks in various forms. GRACE becomes the single central repository of documents, data and processes enabling continuity even when key people leave the organization

Information on each investment is auditable and progress seen in meeting goals can be verified. Material risks in  in portfolio can be used to help the firms manage their climate and sustainability risks. Disclosures to investors will be from verifiable data and will help build assurance and competitive advantage with investors.

Enormous costs savings in unwanted labor for audits and examinations, avoid regulatory fines, legal costs, reputation risks can be gained by verifiable disclosures being created from the single source of truth