AlternativeSoft vs MSCI Burgiss
A side-by-side comparison of AlternativeSoft and MSCI Burgiss — two options for lp reporting & investor relations. Pricing, features, and honest pros and cons.
Category
LP Reporting & Investor Relations
Modeling & Valuation
Rating
4.1 / 5
4.3 / 5
Pricing
Enterprise / Custom
Enterprise / Custom
Best for
Fund-of-funds and allocator teams selecting managers systematically
Benchmarking fund performance the way LPs will
Key features
- Unified database spanning 500,000+ mutual, hedge and PE funds
- Screening with 4,000+ quantitative criteria and peer benchmarking
- Portfolio construction with optimization and stress testing
- AI-powered due diligence questionnaire automation
- Automated branded reporting and fact sheets
- Private fund performance data sourced from LPs
- Vintage-year benchmarks by strategy and geography
- TVPI, DPI, IRR and PME analytics
- Portfolio analytics for allocators
- Integration with MSCI's broader risk toolkit
Pros
- Consolidates the major fund databases into one screening layer
- Two decades of trust with pensions, endowments and consultants
- ODD automation genuinely shortens manager-selection cycles
- LP-sourced data avoids self-reporting survivorship bias
- The benchmark set institutional LPs actually reference
- Deep vintage history across market cycles
Cons
- Built for allocators — GPs get read-only insight into the process
- Coverage skews to hedge funds and liquid alternatives over early-stage VC
- Institutional pricing well beyond emerging-manager budgets
- Venture cuts are less granular than broad buyout coverage