Covercy is a Banking-Embedded Investment Management Platform built for commercial real estate investment firms. It offers automated distribution & capital call payment processing, an Investor Portal, and APY yielding checking accounts.
Covercy is a Banking-Embedded Investment Management Platform built for commercial real estate investment firms. It offers automated distribution & capital call payment processing, an Investor Portal, and APY yielding checking accounts.
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Covercy was used to make international money deposits from Israel to other western countries, including the UK, France, Germany, and the United States. Covercy was a pretty slick online application that showed how much any transaction would cost, including up to date currency exchange rates and fees.
Covercy was well suited to move funds from Israel to other western countries' bank accounts. When we needed to move funds quickly, we could link Israeli bank accounts, move the funds, and incur minimal transaction and administrative fees.
Covery seemed to have the lowest administrative fees and is one of the only companies that allows transfers originating in Israel to western countries.
I first started using Covercy as I was wasting too much time on back office / admin work for my fund, and wanted to focus more on doing deals and creating value to my investors.
Currently Covercy is utilized in my company for the following: + Investor management - Covercy provides an easy and friendly cloud base platform in which all updates and information is available to the investors online + Distributions of funds is done through the Covercy platform, instead of sending each investor a wire, we send the entire amount to our escrow with Covercy and the system automatically distribute it to each investor to the account and currency of their choice + Bank accounts (Covercy allows us to setup and manage banking for our properties within it's platform)
I believe that any small to medium size real investment firm could benefit from using Covercy as it reduces headcount and helps to streamline lots of back-office tasks. Probably for big firms those functions are fully staffed so they can do that in-house.
I believe that Covercy is the only solution that is currently allowing Real Estate firms to distribute funds to their investors directly through the platform. Also, both other solutions are pretty expensive compared to the reasonable pricing that Covercy has in place (function of a number of properties rather than AuM or other methods).
We use Covercy as an investor portal for our private real estate fund investors. It allows them to see their personal investment in our private fund, as well as all the assets held within the fund. We also utilize it for outside investors who invest in individual assets alongside the fund, but who are not invested in the fund itself. It allows us to distribute quarterly reports within minutes to all investors, send distributions directly to client bank accounts (we used to mail checks), and post information about current and new investments along with updated photos on development projects.
Distributions to investors have become much easier for us with the direct deposit feature. Capital calls will be much easier once they roll out the capital call feature. Quarterly report distributions are much easier for us. We update our NAV at the end of each year but unfortunately cannot show investors their return growth from the NAV update. Instead, it shows the NAV as invested capital, which affects return metrics.
The ROI I can provide is for time management. It saves us at least 2 days' worth of work each quarter on capital distributions alone, and at least 30 minutes on each report distribution. Not to mention the amount of time it saves us on fielding client questions regarding their capital because they can just log in and see everything on their portal.
I don't remember the names of the other products we looked at, but Covercy was much more cost-effective than the other 3-4 products we demoed and offered a more holistic service.