Interactive Data division unveils hedge fund net asset value service

The NAV data includes the NAV itself – delivered either as an absolute value or as a rate of return – valuation date, and flags to indicate whether a value is estimated or actual and whether the source is the manager or an administrator.

The process by which firms collect these NAVs to make the values available to clients can be "difficult and labour intensive", involving staff who collect and extract the values from whatever format they are provid-ed by the hedge funds, and manually re-key the