Company: CWAN
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001628280-25-008169
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Company: Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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 We charge our clients a fee that is based on the amount and complexity of the assets they manage on our platform as well as the breadth and type of the solution utilized by the client. In 2022, we transitioned our contracting structure to a framework we describe as Base+ for all new clients. A Base+ contract framework includes a base fee for a prospective or existing client's book of business plus an incremental fee for increases in assets on the platform. This structure is designed to limit the downside volatility in our asset-based fees. We also began to amend contracts with our existing clients to either modify the structure of such contracts from a pure asset-based fee to this Base+ model or to increase the basis point price. Prior to 2022, we charged a basis point fee based on the client’s assets on the platform subject to contracted minimums. For those clients contracted prior to 2022 and whose contract has not been amended, our revenues can more significantly fluctuate with the changes in those clients’ assets. A majority of the assets on our platform are high-grade fixed income assets, which have traditionally had lower levels of volatility enabling our highly predictable revenue streams. The Base+ model includes annual increases in the base fee and enables us to charge additional fees for supplemental services provided for certain alternative asset classes (e.g., LPx, MLx) or additional products (e.g. Prism, OMS/PMS) should the client choose to utilize those services.

Our Industry

We serve the entire investment lifecycle and operate in the investment accounting and analytics market, serving a range of clients that own or manage investment assets. Before the global financial crisis in 2008, the investment community generally invested in a relatively small number of asset classes that could be tracked with legacy software tools and processes. Over the ensuing years, the industry has faced several challenges that have strained and broken this fragmented 

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and often manual approach to investment accounting operations. These new developments have included increasingly globalized holdings, growing regulatory complexities, the increasing prominence of complex alternative assets, and pressure to increase speed and accuracy while reducing cost. In light of these developments, asset owners and asset managers began to require a comprehensive, global view of their investment portfolios. These organizations initially reacted by buying dedicated products for each asset class, country and reporting regime, building proprietary data warehouses for different use cases, and increasing employee headcount in accounting and compliance functions. These practices resulted in investment accounting operations that were slow, expensive, inflexible and inconsistent, very often resulting in inaccurate data