The Mainspring Investment Platform is a flexible and efficient way to offer investors investments into private deals or funds.
Mainspring has built up a platform for fund managers and investment managers to give their investor clients a flexible way to make investments into private assets, be those directly into private companies or into private funds.
The Mainspring Investment Platform is an award-winning combination of a private asset custody service, leading technology and private market know-how. For almost a decade Mainspring has been providing this open architecture nominee and custody platform to its professional clients so that they can offer their investors access to private investments. The platform allows for complex private investments to be administered in a professionally run and secure environment with sophisticated reporting capabilities created by experts in private markets. These are your investors and investments, while we provide the infrastructure for you to excel in private investing.
The Mainspring Investment Platform has in excess of £3bn assets under custody on behalf of more than 50 clients and 50,000 investors, family offices and their wealth advisors. It has facilitated investment into hundreds of our client’s products and thereon thousands of private companies and private funds.
How the platform can be used to hold private investments
For Fund Managers
Mainspring’s DNA is the administration of private investments into companies and private funds, and it has developed a number of flexible solutions for fund managers looking to offer their investors investment opportunities. This includes any investment strategies such as co-investing alongside GP led funds, feeders into private funds, or directly into portfolios of companies.
You may also wish to see an Insight Article written by Bridget Barker, Mainspring Chair and who spent over 35 years with Macfarlanes, one of the leading City law firms, where she was head of the Investment Management Group.
For Wealth Managers
The Mainspring Investment Platform is based on a segregated managed account infrastructure allowing Mainspring to hold portfolios of assets for individual investors and Wealth Managers. The Mainspring Investment Platform provides a trusted hub through which individuals’ assets are held and reported on, by experts in private markets.
You may also wish to see an Insight Article written by Neil Clark, Mainspring COO and who has been with Mainspring since 2015, having previously held senior positions in several Private Equity and Venture Capital backed businesses.
Mainspring undertakes all the fund administration, including onboarding and AML checks, transaction and cash management. It provides detailed investor, wealth manager and fund level reporting that is made available to investors, advisers and the manager through a client-branded portal as well as data for ingesting into third party reporting services. Find out more about how it works here.
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