PPM Finance, Inc.

PPM Finance, Inc. located in Chicago, Illinois, is the real estate investment group of PPM America, Inc., a full service asset management firm owned by U.K. based Prudential plc. PPM was created specifically to build and manage a commercial real estate portfolio for Jackson National Life Insurance Company. Today, PPM manages over $6 billion in commercial mortgages, CMBS and equity investments.

"Our ongoing business plan called for the capability to manage a significantly larger portfolio in the near future. This meant we had to seriously review our technology infrastructure to assess whether we could handle more assets with our existing staff and resources. RealEra gave us that additional capacity, and improved the quality of our management process." says Jeff Johnson, PPM’s Director of Real Estate Equities.

RealEra technology has already made a significant impact on PPM’s everyday productivity and efficiency. With RealEra Portfolio Manager installed, the staff at PPM is now able to simplify and accelerate its monthly and quarterly reporting process, which includes updating monthly financials, tracking investment entity incomes and disbursements, reviewing asset performance, and generating exit IRR analysis based on future performance projections and current market conditions. Tedious and complicated tasks that previously took days are now accomplished in a matter of hours, and data double-entry has been completely eliminated.

For more information about PPM Finance Inc. and Jackson National Life Insurance Company, please visit their Web sites at www.ppmfinance.com and www.jnl.com.