New York, October 18, 2022 – DWS, one of the largest real estate investment managers with $84bn¹ in global real estate AUM and a 50-year heritage as a fiduciary manager of commercial real estate, today announced its partnership with +SUBSCRIBE, a financial technology system providing an order management and electronic subscription document for alternative product transactions.

This customized platform for alternative investments enhances the fund-sponsor-fund investor relationship by forming a digital central hub between DWS professionals and interested institutional investment or wealth management firms, financial professionals and their high-net worth clients seeking access to private assets.

+SUBSCRIBE platform streamlines and automates the subscription process and creates a more efficient purchase and redemption experience for investors. This saves them time as they can invest in multiple products across DWS simply by adding the subscription documents to the system.

“In today’s inflationary environment, commercial real estate is one of the best portfolio diversifiers that can generate income, limit downside in volatile times and – due to depreciation – have a large portion of the income taxed as a return of capital,” said Brian Maute, Head of Alternatives Distribution at DWS.

Specific alternative solutions across DWS real estate and private capital offerings will leverage the technology to streamline many of the operational tasks, such as investor onboarding, subscription documents, transaction workflow management, system integrations and investor reporting to support the full life cycle of an investment.

+SUBSCRIBE’s platform is open-architecture and serves as a centralized and consolidating hub for the alternative investments industry. The financial technology firm’s electronic subscription document solution, eSubDocs, is used globally by more than 6,000 institutional investors, 2,500 private funds and 500 service providers. Establishing seamless system-to-system integration to enable digital transactions, provides centralization and operational ease-of-use for the various functional groups and investment professionals who form the alternative investment industry ecosystem.

“In adopting our technology, DWS joins a growing number of the leading alternative investment managers that are embracing the digitization of the private markets industry,” said Rafay Farooqui, Founder and CEO of +SUBSCRIBE. “Positioning our platform to support DWS’s strategic goals embodies our vision to power alternative investments. We are proud to partner with them as they seek to ensure an easy and seamless workflow for their limited partners.”