THE INDUSTRY STANDARD

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1 THE INDUSTRY STANDARD Private i is the clear tool of choice for private capital investors worldwide. Choose Private i and join hundreds of endowments and foundations, pension and sovereign wealth funds, family offices, funds-of-funds and other asset owners in enjoying the benefits of a portfolio management system expressly designed for private capital assets. Private i speaks your language it understands commitments to funds, coinvestments, direct investments, vintage years, capital calls, unfunded commitments, recallable capital, post distribution stock activity, secondary positions, FX gain/loss and the like. Private i understands private capital investment performance, going well beyond IRRs, Investment Multiples and Time-Weighted Rates of Return. Private i natively calculates public market comparisons such as the Long-Nickels Index Comparison Method, the Kaplan-Schoar Public Market Equivalent, and the new Gredil-Griffiths- Stucke Direct Alpha. And it also makes it easy to compare your investment performance to custom peer group benchmarks from the Burgiss Manager Universe. License Private i directly from us or through one of our many partners. Manage the data yourself or with the help from leading custodian banks, administrators, or investment consultants. Private i, the obvious choice. Read on to better understand why.

2 A FOCUS ON OPERATIONS Private capital investing demands an organized approach-- capture all of the details and everything follows. Our cloud-based hosting, storage and backup safeguards your data and assures business continuity. YOUR PRIVATE I Private i has always served investors of all kinds and sizes. There s no magic to this. We ve put incredible care into making Private i easy to set up and use. We want you to feel that with Private i, you re always in control. You choose how to set up and organize investments and classify them in meaningful ways. You add reference data to help keep information consistent. You define custom fields to address special needs. You establish and assign peer groups for benchmark comparisons. You can even calibrate calculations to meet exacting specifications. The result is a tool tuned to your needs. Private i is designed to minimize extra work and help you automate routine tasks. Add a commitment to a fund, and Private i creates supporting information in its specialized CRM. Set up portfolios and investments, and they are immediately available in reporting. Add transactions and capital account balances as they occur and, behind the scenes, Private i calculates running totals, performance multiples, rates of return and related measures. Add contacts, fund managers, funds, bank accounts, wire instructions, and company details to help centralize administration. Create report favorites and set up scheduled jobs to help speed reporting. Add separate modules to track direct investments and administer investor s accounts for fund-of-funds. Private i stores your investment data, derived information, user and calculation preferences, reference data, report templates, rules and histories of performance. Its audit log captures all changes.

3 REPORTING FOR PERFORMANCE Reporting drives the overall design of Private i. Nowhere is this more evident than with the way we ve integrated performance measurement. The report engine uses our universal calculation engine change a system preference for a calculation and all reports use it automatically. INTEGRATED TRANSPARENCY REPORTING Subscribers to our portfolio holding transparency service, Private Informant, can integrate performance of their fund investments and their underlying assets, including fine-grained sector, geographic and industry concentration analysis. Private i s reporting templates create the ultimate in flexibility and portability. Choose from our extensive library to run over 200 standard reports. Customize these reports on-the-fly with grouping and run-time options. Automate reports by bundling them into jobs and scheduling them. If you don t find what you need, we can help you find it, or we can work with you to fine-tune or build any report to meet more specific requirements.

4 DESIGNED FOR OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE Setup & Control Operations Interoperability User, Team & Role-Based Security Configurable Input Controls User Defined Reference Data International Language Compliant (Unicode) Custom Fields Audit Log Third-party Reference Data Resource Sharing Portfolio & Transaction Locking Multicurrency Support Batch Transaction Loading Allocations >200 Standard Reports & Exports Scheduling Built-in Unique Identifiers Structured Exports Import Templates Continuous Operation Third-Party Hosting, Managed By Burgiss Continuous Monitoring Minimal Client IT Involvement Calculations Internal Rate of Return Since Inception Point-to-Point Modified IRR Time Weighted Rate of Return Modified Dietz Chained IRR Investment Multiples TVPI Investment Multiple DPI Realization Multiple RVPI Unrealized Multiple Benchmarking Peer Groups Long-Nickels Index Comparison Method Kaplan-Schoar Public Market Equivalent Gredil-Griffiths-Stucke Direct Alpha Performance Attribution Neutral Weighting Time Zero Post Distribution Stock Performance Unfunded Commitment Adjusted Valuation

5 THE BURGISS APPROACH: A PRODUCT STRATEGY We believe a standardized approach to product development creates the highest value for our customers. Information system development is a big, complex and often delicate task that has the goal of creating useful, usable and robust systems that work as expected and can grow as needed. Standardization creates economies of scale that helps keep ambitions in check, provides focus and helps drive innovation. Developing standard products takes more time and is expensive, but in the long run, a product-based approach has advantages that far outweigh the costs. Thus our tools serve customers with similar problems, needs and ambitions. SOFTWARE-AS-A-SERVICE To help our clients simplify their IT infrastructure and support, all of our software applications are as delivered as a service (Software-as-a- Service). Burgiss hosts the infrastructure in secure third-party data centers for continuous operation and to provide business continuity. We monitor and manage our servers. We take responsibility for 24x7 operation. This approach allows us to serve our clients better, and deliver timely upgrades. By embracing standardization, we deliberately avoid the many pitfalls of customization. Work is directed on solving big needs. Implementations are quick. Upgrades are simple. With up-to-date software, our customer support team can focus on helping you solve your problems efficiently. And with this product-based approach, we have a reputation for delivering reliable software and continuous innovation. All clients benefit from these new features. For clients with truly distinct needs, we make sure that their data is easily accessible. This approach to development extends to how we operate--we take endto-end responsibility for getting things right and keeping things working. All of our software applications are hosted at highly secure data centers and managed by our in-house team.

6 BURGISS Burgiss is a global provider of investment decision support tools for the private capital market. Our tools are software applications for portfolio monitoring and reporting, performance measurement and benchmarking, cash flow forecasting, document management, investor administration and exposure analysis; investment services, such as holdings and fundamentals transparency, portfolio reporting, data management and research, including model validation and simulations; and data and analytics, such as benchmarks, performance, risk and behavioral data on the private capital market. We serve: Asset owners, such as endowments, foundations, pension funds, family offices, sovereign wealth funds and financial institutions, who use our tools to manage their private capital investments. Asset managers, such as buyout, venture capital, real estate and real asset funds and funds-of-funds, whose needs are driven by increasingly complex demands. Financial intermediaries, such as custodians, investment consultants, and administrators, who leverage Burgiss tools to enhance their offerings to their clients. CLIENT SERVICE Doing business with us is easy. We support our clients with a human touch. Our phones are answered by a person. Our client service representatives are not only experts on our tools, but on what you do with them. We know and can solve the most common problems and hundreds of uncommon ones. We can get you quickly trained in the basics, but would be happy to coach you on more advanced topics. We regularly hold online training seminars for users of different skill sets and on specialized topics. We hold hands-on training sessions and other client events. Need something special? Just give us a call. CONTACT US Burgiss 111 River Street, 10 th Floor Hoboken, NJ USA +1 (201) info@burgiss.com burgiss.com Founded in 1987, Burgiss is a multidisciplinary team of 150 professionals steeped in the world of private capital. Today our tools support over a thousand clients representing over $2 trillion of committed capital.