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Frameworks

Published methods for private-markets research, capital formation and investor communication, with summaries, sources and related concepts.

Standards and methodologies

12 documents

Versioned Altss reference documents, with their sources and the concepts they use.

  • Methodology · Version 1.2

    Altss Entity Resolution Methodology

    The Altss methodology for deciding whether two records describe the same entity: identity, relation and role kept separate; organisations merged only on registry identifiers or a filing naming both as one; similarity creates relation candidates, never merges; no metrics summed across entity families.

  • Standard · Version 1.2

    Altss Evidence & Provenance Standard

    The Altss standard for recording evidence behind private-markets facts: claim-level provenance, evidence chains, three separate evidence dimensions (evidence origin, derivation status, validation status), distinct date types, null states such as unknown vs not disclosed, negative evidence, conflicts and claim citation.

  • Standard · Version 1.2.0

    Altss Family Office Classification Standard

    How Altss classifies family offices: the SEC family office rule as a US regulatory exclusion rather than a general definition, accredited-investor family office categories, Altss-defined labels for single-, multi-, embedded and virtual family offices, adjacent types excluded, and the evidence each label requires.

  • Standard · Version 1.2.0

    Altss Private Markets OSINT Verification Standard

    The Altss standard for verifying publicly accessible private-markets information: Berkeley Protocol-aligned source, item and content verification, the three evidence dimensions with origin kept separate from collection method, source grading, ICD 203 language for judgments, and source-rights recording.

  • Standard · Version 1.2.0

    Altss Private Markets Performance Measurement Standard

    The Altss standard for calculating, labelling and comparing private-fund performance: money-weighted IRR on actual dates, NAV as terminal value, TVPI, DPI, RVPI and MOIC, gross versus net, subscription-line effects, pooled versus average figures, horizon returns, and GIPS 2020 and ILPA alignment.

  • Standard · Version 1.2

    Altss Private Markets Research Citation Standard

    Altss's rules for citing sources in private-markets reference and research content: source tiers, no self-citation or competitor evidence for general claims, a fixed claim format with unit and as-of date, recency markers, and rules for AI-assisted drafting.

  • Standard · Version 1.1

    Altss Private Markets Taxonomy & Classification Standard

    The Altss standard for classifying private-markets concepts: 33 facets with one primary facet per concept, permanent concept IDs, one canonical page per concept, rules against common category errors, and crosswalks to external classifications.

  • Methodology · Version 1.2

    Altss Source Reliability & Confidence Methodology

    The Altss methodology for grading sources and assigning confidence labels to private-markets claims: source authority classes, reliability and credibility grades adapted from the NATO Admiralty system, independence, use of validation status, conflict handling, label meaning and limits, calibration and decay.

  • Methodology · Version 1.2

    Altss Temporal Data & Freshness Methodology

    The Altss methodology for time in private-markets data: valid time vs transaction time, point-in-time reconstruction, as-of reporting, freshness as an attribute of each claim rather than a page, decay, and why a content edit never implies that a fact was verified.

  • Framework · Version 1.1.0

    Fund Terms & Alignment Framework

    A method for reviewing private fund terms: management fee base and step-downs, carried interest, preferred return, catch-up, whole-fund and deal-by-deal waterfalls, clawback, fee offsets, GP commitment and LP governance rights, with worked calculations and a mapping to ILPA Principles 3.0 and the Model LPA.

  • Framework · Version 1.2.0

    Institutional LP Manager Due Diligence Framework

    A method for LPs to evaluate a private-fund manager before committing: investment due diligence across ten domains, evidence and verification rules, finding severity and decision outcomes, mapping to ILPA DDQ 2.0 and the AIMA DDQ, an operational due diligence gate and a family-office variant.

  • Framework · Version 1.2.0

    Private Capital Valuation & Mark Quality Framework

    How unquoted private-capital investments and fund interests are marked to fair value under ASC 820, IFRS 13, the IPEV Guidelines (2025 edition) and Rule 2a-5, and the Altss-defined indicators used to read a mark: timeliness, staleness, divergence, dispersion and backtesting.

Frameworks

8 documents

Published frameworks for capital formation, investor research and communication.