IVP Master Data Management
Buy-side Data Management Simplified. Cloud-enabled. Enhanced with AI Agents.

The IVP Master Data Management (MDM) Suite is a platform tailored for the buy-side of investment management. It integrates security, entity, pricing, and operational data into a unified data fabric with built-in governance, real-time monitoring and customizable rules. Featuring a shared buy-side semantic layer and MCP-compliant AI agents, the cloud-native IVP MDM Suite serves as a central hub for asset managers, hedge funds, private equity firms, and CLOs.

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Fact Sheet

Quick View on Features and Key Differentiators

Case Study

Case Study

Right Sizing a $644B AUM Asset Manager’s Data Infrastructure

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AUM managed using IVP technology

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Leading fund managers using IVP solutions

AI-enabled

Powered with Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Snowflake Cortex

Semantic Layer

Buy-side semantic layer, domain ontology, governed metric and AI metadata fabric

THE CONNECTED CORE FOR BUY-SIDE DATA

One Platform. Enhanced with AI agents. Governed with IVP Semantic Layer.

The IVP MDM Suite delivers buy-side master data management as one connected operating layer rather than three disconnected tools. Each module is purpose-built. Each is interoperable with the others, with the IVP AI agents.

Single Source of Truth

Centralize security, fund, entities, reference. pricing and market data into a governed golden copy of data that downstream systems can trust.

Modular and Scalable

Adopt IVP Security and Reference Master, IVP Enterprise Data Management or the IVP Data Warehouse Solution independently as modules, or deploy the full IVP MDM Suite. Extend, integrate and scale anytime without re-architecting.

AI Native Substrate

Use MCP-enabled AI agents for credit document processing, reference mastering, pipeline construction, data quality management, and compliance rule extraction and more across every module.

Real-Time Analytics

Query the IVP Data Warehouse live through Sigma / Power BI / Excel addin / MCP/ API ensures real-time data access with full row- and column-level security inherited from the IVP MDM suite.

Buy-Side Semantic Layer

Rely on a governed domain ontology, metrics layer, knowledge graph, and AI metadata fabric that keeps definitions consistent across modules and makes the suite IVP CoPilot ready.

Audit-Ready by Design

Maintain full lineage, time-series history, and change traceability across mastering, orchestration, and analytical layers.

Cloud-Native Architecture

Deploy across AWS, Azure, and Snowflake. Scale storage, compute, and concurrency without architectural rework.

Plug-and-Play Connectivity

Use more than 100 native adapters to integrate with fund administrators, brokers, OMS, PMS, accounting systems, and market data vendors.

THE BUY-SIDE SEMANTIC LAYER

Where Domain, Data, and AI Converge

The IVP Master Data Management Suite is unified by a governed buy-side semantic layer that keeps definitions, metrics, and relationships consistent across IVP Security and Reference Master, IVP Enterprise Data Management, and the IVP Data Warehouse. It is the connective tissue that makes the suite intelligent, AI-ready, and CoPilot aware.

Domain Ontology

Business objects modeled around how buy-side firms actually operate, funds, strategies, instruments, counterparties, and the relationships between them.

Metrics Layer

Governed definitions for NAV, IRR, exposure, performance, and risk metrics, defined once, applied everywhere.

Knowledge Graph

Look through linkage across positions, instruments, counterparties, and entities for instant impact analysis.

AI Metadata Fabric

CoPilot ready metadata that gives every AI agent grounded, contextualized access to enterprise data.

AI Agents Embedded Across the MDM Suite

EDM
Data Quality Management (DQM) Configurator Agent
  • Configures automated DQ rules, detects anomalies, and delivers continuous monitoring with real-time alerts across all ingestion pipelines.
  • Smart rule recommendations and natural language configuration powered by enterprise knowledge.

Outcome: Consistent, governed data with fewer exceptions.

MDM SUITE
IVP CoPilot: Enterprise Search and Intelligence

ENTERPRISE SEARCH

  • Context-aware, semantic natural language search powered by a unified business ontology across deals, IVP Security and Reference Master, IVP Pricing and Valuation, and the IVP Data Warehouse
  • Accessible through Claude and ChatGPT via MCP or can be embedded into Teams/Slack or Excel Add-in. Surfaces the right data without the need to navigate multiple systems.

PRICING AND VALUATION ANALYTICS

  • Enables natural language access to pricing trends, challenge history, and valuation analytics.
  • Identifies pricing discrepancies and automatically initiates challenge workflows.

Outcome: Faster discovery across every IVP solution through a single conversational interface.

EDM
AI File Parser Agent
  • Processes Excel, CSV, and complex PDFs in any layout with zero manual configuration.
  • Uses a tiered, multi-model AI pipeline to extract structured JSON and validate it against business rules.
  • Automated DQM loop self-corrects errors to ensure 100% accurate data ingestion.
  • Simultaneously parses and normalizes multi-custodian files and multi-table sheets in a single run.

Outcome: Faster onboarding, zero manual configuration, and accurate data ingestion at enterprise scale.

EDM
Data Pipeline and Reporting Agent
  • Builds natural-language ETL pipelines with full lineage and transformations, reducing pipeline development time.
  • Automatically analyses SQL views to detect inefficiencies, suggest indexing strategies, and deliver faster, smarter dashboards.
  • AI-assisted report generation accelerates output across the portfolio.
  • Tracks end-to-end lineage back to the source of any security or reference attribute across every transformation hop.

Outcome: Faster pipeline construction, accelerated dashboards, and full trust in data lineage.

SRM
Reference Data Agent
  • Normalizes rates, classifiers, and codes to industry standards.
  • Identifies and resolves duplicate records automatically to ensure consistent, reliable reference data for downstream systems.

Outcome: Consistent reference sets and automated de-duplication across all downstream systems.

SRM
MDM Agent
  • Resolves entities into golden records, syncs master data across systems, and creates legal entities from PDFs.
  • Establishes a single, trusted golden record across the enterprise data landscape.

Outcome: A governed golden record across all instruments and counterparties.

SRM
Credit Service Agreement Agent
  • Extracts loan terms, covenants, and amortization schedules from credit documents with citation-backed accuracy.
  • Converts legal content into structured, validated inputs integrated with WSO and the IVP Security and Reference Master.
  • Successfully tested on more than 1,000 credit agreements, including bespoke deals, with >95% extraction accuracy.
  • Scales across syndicated loan and private credit documents regardless of format or jurisdiction.

Outcome: Faster deal onboarding with source-verified data, stronger risk oversight, and direct valuation workflow integration.

DWH
Compliance Configurator Agent
  • Converts IMAs, CLOs, and regulatory PDFs into platform-ready pre- and post-trade rules.
  • Executes approved rules daily in the IVP Compliance module, eliminating manual configuration and cutting deployment time.
  • Reduces drafting effort and accelerates time from agreement to active compliance monitoring.

Outcome: Audit-ready rules and faster time to compliance from agreement to production.

Pricing and Valuation
Valuation Agent
  • Recommends spreads and discount rates for private credit assets using market comparables, liquidity adjustments, and transparent, auditable rationale.
  • Generates committee-ready valuation memos by analyzing inputs, assumptions, methodologies, and sensitivities with structured outputs that support analyst review and approval workflows.
  • Surfaces comparable transaction data and current market spread benchmarks to support defensible rate selection and challenge review.
  • Speeds up the valuation cycle while maintaining full audit traceability from rate recommendation to final memo output.

Outcome: Faster valuations with defensible, audit-ready outputs.

Pricing and Valuation
Broker Quote Quality Assessment Agent
  • Continuously evaluates vendor and broker quotes, assigning confidence scores and highlighting anomalies for analyst review.
  • Generates pricing and rerate recommendations from the latest broker data with audited proof of change.
  • Ensures quotes are accurate, timely, and defensible against challenges.

Outcome: Higher revenue capture, audited accuracy, and confidence-scored quote recommendations.

Pricing and Valuation
Discount Rate Modeler Agent
  • Parses credit agreement data maps directly into valuation workflows for discount rate and spread modeling.

Outcome: Recommends spreads and discount rates for private credit assets using market comparables, liquidity adjustments, and transparent rationale

EDM
Data Quality Management (DQM) Configurator Agent
  • Configures automated DQ rules, detects anomalies, and delivers continuous monitoring with real-time alerts across all ingestion pipelines.
  • Smart rule recommendations and natural language configuration powered by enterprise knowledge.

Outcome: Consistent, governed data with fewer exceptions.

MDM SUITE
IVP CoPilot: Enterprise Search and Intelligence

ENTERPRISE SEARCH

  • Context-aware, semantic natural language search powered by a unified business ontology across deals, IVP Security and Reference Master, IVP Pricing and Valuation, and the IVP Data Warehouse
  • Accessible through Claude and ChatGPT via MCP or can be embedded into Teams/Slack or Excel Add-in. Surfaces the right data without the need to navigate multiple systems.

PRICING AND VALUATION ANALYTICS

  • Enables natural language access to pricing trends, challenge history, and valuation analytics.
  • Identifies pricing discrepancies and automatically initiates challenge workflows.

Outcome: Faster discovery across every IVP solution through a single conversational interface.

EDM
AI File Parser Agent
  • Processes Excel, CSV, and complex PDFs in any layout with zero manual configuration.
  • Uses a tiered, multi-model AI pipeline to extract structured JSON and validate it against business rules.
  • Automated DQM loop self-corrects errors to ensure 100% accurate data ingestion.
  • Simultaneously parses and normalizes multi-custodian files and multi-table sheets in a single run.

Outcome: Faster onboarding, zero manual configuration, and accurate data ingestion at enterprise scale.

EDM
Data Pipeline and Reporting Agent
  • Builds natural-language ETL pipelines with full lineage and transformations, reducing pipeline development time.
  • Automatically analyses SQL views to detect inefficiencies, suggest indexing strategies, and deliver faster, smarter dashboards.
  • AI-assisted report generation accelerates output across the portfolio.
  • Tracks end-to-end lineage back to the source of any security or reference attribute across every transformation hop.

Outcome: Faster pipeline construction, accelerated dashboards, and full trust in data lineage.

SRM
Reference Data Agent
  • Normalizes rates, classifiers, and codes to industry standards.
  • Identifies and resolves duplicate records automatically to ensure consistent, reliable reference data for downstream systems.

Outcome: Consistent reference sets and automated de-duplication across all downstream systems.

SRM
MDM Agent
  • Resolves entities into golden records, syncs master data across systems, and creates legal entities from PDFs.
  • Establishes a single, trusted golden record across the enterprise data landscape.

Outcome: A governed golden record across all instruments and counterparties.

SRM
Credit Service Agreement Agent
  • Extracts loan terms, covenants, and amortization schedules from credit documents with citation-backed accuracy.
  • Converts legal content into structured, validated inputs integrated with WSO and the IVP Security and Reference Master.
  • Successfully tested on more than 1,000 credit agreements, including bespoke deals, with >95% extraction accuracy.
  • Scales across syndicated loan and private credit documents regardless of format or jurisdiction.

Outcome: Faster deal onboarding with source-verified data, stronger risk oversight, and direct valuation workflow integration.

DWH
Compliance Configurator Agent
  • Converts IMAs, CLOs, and regulatory PDFs into platform-ready pre- and post-trade rules.
  • Executes approved rules daily in the IVP Compliance module, eliminating manual configuration and cutting deployment time.
  • Reduces drafting effort and accelerates time from agreement to active compliance monitoring.

Outcome: Audit-ready rules and faster time to compliance from agreement to production.

Pricing and Valuation
Valuation Agent
  • Recommends spreads and discount rates for private credit assets using market comparables, liquidity adjustments, and transparent, auditable rationale.
  • Generates committee-ready valuation memos by analyzing inputs, assumptions, methodologies, and sensitivities with structured outputs that support analyst review and approval workflows.
  • Surfaces comparable transaction data and current market spread benchmarks to support defensible rate selection and challenge review.
  • Speeds up the valuation cycle while maintaining full audit traceability from rate recommendation to final memo output.

Outcome: Faster valuations with defensible, audit-ready outputs.

Pricing and Valuation
Broker Quote Quality Assessment Agent
  • Continuously evaluates vendor and broker quotes, assigning confidence scores and highlighting anomalies for analyst review.
  • Generates pricing and rerate recommendations from the latest broker data with audited proof of change.
  • Ensures quotes are accurate, timely, and defensible against challenges.

Outcome: Higher revenue capture, audited accuracy, and confidence-scored quote recommendations.

Pricing and Valuation
Discount Rate Modeler Agent
  • Parses credit agreement data maps directly into valuation workflows for discount rate and spread modeling.

Outcome: Recommends spreads and discount rates for private credit assets using market comparables, liquidity adjustments, and transparent rationale

IVP Semantic Layer
Domain Ontology
Business Objects
Metrics Layer
Governed Definitions
Knowledge Graph
Look-Through Linkage
AI Metadata Fabric
Copilot-Ready
AI as a Substrate — Inherent Across All Agents
Natural-Language Intelligence
Embedded NL across all IVP modules, unified, seamless workflow automation
MCP-Ready Enterprise-Wide
Integrates IVP and client ecosystems. 100% MCP compatible, no lock-in
Flexible Model Choice
OpenAI GPT · Snowflake Cortex · Google Gemini · Anthropic Claude
Proven Reliability at Scale
Complete auditability, high accuracy and governance, built for institutional precision
MDM SUITE COMPONENTS

Three Purpose-Built Modules. One Governed Platform.

The IVP Master Data Management (MDM) Suite is a fully integrated platform designed to centralize, govern, and optimize all critical investment data across every asset class, workflow, and reporting requirement. Purpose-built for asset managers, hedge funds, and private capital, the suite combines modular strength with seamless interoperability to deliver accurate, timely, and auditable data at scale.

IVP Security and Reference Master (SRM)

The mastering layer.

IVP Security and Reference Master centralizes instruments, entities, counterparties, and reference data into a governed reference master with real-time exception routing, AI-powered credit agreement parsing, and a configurable, schema-driven model for any asset class. It produces a trusted golden copy of data for downstream operations.

Key capabilities: Golden copy creation and distribution · Cross-asset modeling · Corporate actions · 100+ adapters · Snowflake-enabled distribution

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IVP Enterprise Data Management (EDM)

The orchestration and governance layer.

IVP Enterprise Data Management is a no-code/low-code, cloud-native enterprise data management platform that automates ingestion, validation, governance, cataloging, lineage, and distribution from fund administrators, brokers, OMS, PMS, accounting systems, and market data vendors. It is the control plane for investment data movement.

Key capabilities: Low-code pipelines · 100+ preloaded data quality rules · End-to-end lineage · Domain-aware modeling · 100+ adapters

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IVP Data Warehouse Solution (DWH)

The analytical core.

The IVP Data Warehouse Solution centralizes, normalizes, and operationalizes investment data with bitemporal storage, audit-ready lineage, strategy-aware performance, and a live Sigma and Power BI reporting layer for grid-based, paginated, and Excel-native consumption. It is the governed analytical foundation for the IVP MDM Suite.

Key capabilities: Bitemporal storage · Strategy-aware performance · Support for Power BI or live dashboards with Sigma · Pre- and post-trade compliance reporting · GIPS-ready

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IVP Pricing and Valuation Solution

Pricing and valuation modeling layer.

A comprehensive solution that enables funds to store prices, price parameters, and related market data as well as apply valuation policies and consistently deliver prices that executives, investors, and auditors can review with confidence.

Key capabilities: Pricing waterfall automation · Exception management with multi-level approvals · Bloomberg, broker, and 100+ vendor adapters · ISDA CDS, IRS, DCF, and comparables model support · Valuation committee reporting

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IVP Entity Master

IVP Entity Master centralizes funds, share classes, fund management companies, counterparties, and party relationships into a governed entity master that controls how new counterparties are onboarded and how new funds are launched. It produces a single golden copy of legal entity and counterparty data, with configurable N-level approval workflows, full party exposure attributes, and downstream synchronization through the IVP EDM toolkit.

Key capabilities: Pre-configured fund and share class modeling · Configurable N-level approval workflows · Party exposure, ratings, and due diligence attributes · Bloomberg, GLEIF, and S&P Capital IQ adapters · Downstream sync to PAS/PMS, OMS/EMS, data warehouse, and risk systems

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IVP MDM SUITE USE CASES

Hedge Funds

Consolidate fund admin, broker, OMS, and risk data through one governed master data management platform. Generate audit-ready performance, exposure, and investor reporting at peak cycle without manual reconciliation.

Private Credit and Private Equity

Ingest deal terms, agent notices, and borrower financials from PDFs and CRMs. Master legal entities, counterparties, and complex instruments through a configurable, schema-driven reference model. Model Private equity valuations with ease with this integrated platform.

Traditional Asset Managers

Automate multi-asset investment data management across security and reference data, performance and GIPS reporting, and pre- and post-trade compliance, through one governed suite rather than stitched point tools.

Technology and Operations Leaders

Modernize the buy-side data architecture without rebuilding it. The IVP MDM Suite is cloud-ready, MCP-enabled and deployable module by module against existing infrastructure.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is master data management (MDM)?

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Master data management (MDM) for the buy-side is the practice of unifying security, entity, pricing, and investment data into one governed Golden Record that asset managers, hedge funds, and private capital firms reference across operations. Buy-side master data management differs from generic enterprise MDM because it models data around funds, strategies, instruments, and counterparties, and connects natively to fund administrators, brokers, OMS, PMS, and market data vendors. It carries full lineage and audit trails across the investment lifecycle and are typically designed to support enterprise-wide efficiency, decision-making, and regulatory compliance.

What is the IVP Master Data Management (MDM) Suite?

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The IVP Master data management (MDM) Suite is a buy-side master data management platform that unifies security, enterprise, and investment data into one governed system. It combines three core modules, IVP Security and Reference Master (SRM) for mastering, IVP Enterprise Data Management (EDM) for orchestration and governance, and the IVP Data Warehouse Solution (DWH) for analytics, under a shared Buy-Side Semantic Layer with MCP-ready AI agents. The suite serves asset managers, hedge funds, private capital firms, and CLOs that need control over investment data without running point tools side by side.

What are the components of the IVP MDM Suite?

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The IVP MDM Suite has three core modules and two extending modules. The core modules are IVP Security and Reference Master, the mastering layer for instruments, entities, counterparties, and reference data; IVP Enterprise Data Management, the orchestration and governance layer for ingestion, validation, cataloging, lineage, and distribution; and the IVP Data Warehouse Solution, the analytical core with bitemporal storage and strategy-aware performance. The extending modules are IVP Pricing and Valuation Solution and IVP Entity Master. The Buy-Side Semantic Layer unifies all five, and each runs on Snowflake, AWS, and Azure.

How is the IVP MDM Suite different from a generic master data management platform?

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The IVP MDM Suite is built for buy-side firms, with a preloaded buy-side domain ontology, governed definitions for NAV, IRR, exposure, and performance, and native connection to the systems asset managers run. Generic MDM platforms treat investment data the same as customer or product data. The IVP MDM Suite treats it as buy-side data, modeled around funds, strategies, instruments, and counterparties. The difference shows up in the AI agents, the reference data workflows, and the analytical use cases the suite supports out of the box.

Can firms adopt one IVP MDM module without the others?

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Yes. The IVP MDM Suite is modular by design. Firms adopt IVP Security and Reference Master, IVP Enterprise Data Management, or the IVP Data Warehouse Solution independently and extend the suite over time. Each module interoperates with the others and with the IVP AI agents, and no module requires full-suite deployment to deliver value. Most buy-side firms modernize in layers rather than through a single architectural reset, and the suite supports that path.

What role do AI agents play in the IVP MDM Suite?

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AI agents are embedded across every IVP MDM module to automate the slowest manual buy-side data workflows. IVP Security and Reference Master hosts the Credit Service Agreement Agent, Reference Data Agent, and MDM Agent. IVP Enterprise Data Management hosts the Data Governance Agent, Data Pipeline Builder Agent, Reporting View Optimizer Agent, and DQM Configurator. The IVP Data Warehouse hosts the Compliance Configurator. IVP CoPilot operates across all modules for natural-language search in Microsoft Teams and Excel.

What is the Buy-Side Semantic Layer?

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The Buy-Side Semantic Layer is the governed layer that unifies the IVP MDM Suite, comprising a domain ontology, a metrics layer, a knowledge graph, and an AI metadata fabric. The domain ontology models buy-side business objects: funds, strategies, instruments, and counterparties. The metrics layer defines NAV, IRR, exposure, and performance once and applies them across every module. The knowledge graph provides look-through linkage across positions and entities. The AI metadata fabric gives every AI agent grounded, contextualized access to enterprise data, which is what keeps the agents reliable rather than generic.

How does the IVP MDM Suite handle data governance, lineage, and auditability?

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The IVP MDM Suite maintains full lineage, time-series history, and change traceability across the mastering, orchestration, and analytical layers. Governance is built in, not bolted on. Reference data, Golden Record outputs, and analytical results all carry audit-ready lineage, and exception handling runs across ingestion, transformation, and distribution. Firms trace any data point through its full lifecycle for regulatory reporting and internal control.

How does the IVP MDM Suite connect to existing systems and cloud platforms?

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The IVP MDM Suite uses native adapters to connect with fund administrators, brokers, OMS, PMS, accounting systems, and market data vendors. It is cloud-native and runs across AWS, Azure, and SQL-based environments, with Snowflake support across all three core modules. The suite delivers the same governance, lineage, and AI agent capabilities regardless of deployment environment, so firms modernize against existing infrastructure rather than rebuilding it.

How does the IVP MDM Suite support hedge fund, private credit, and asset manager workflows?

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The IVP MDM Suite supports each buy-side firm type through one governed platform, with workflows tuned to each strategy. For hedge funds, it consolidates fund administrator, broker, OMS, and risk data into audit-ready performance, exposure, and investor reporting at peak cycle. For private credit and private capital firms, it ingests deal terms, agent notices, and borrower financials from PDFs and CRMs, then masters legal entities, counterparties, and complex instruments through a configurable, schema-driven reference model. For traditional asset managers, it automates multi-asset investment data management across reference data, GIPS reporting, and pre- and post-trade compliance.

Can the IVP MDM Suite run as a managed service?

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Yes. Firms run the IVP MDM Suite as a self-managed platform, combine it with IVP Managed Services for a Data Management as a Service model, or blend the two across modules. Managed Services preserves transparency, auditability, and governance while offloading day-to-day data operations, including 24/7 support, KPI monitoring, and multi-vendor expertise. Many firms want software control on some modules and operating leverage on others, and the suite supports both within one governed framework.

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