Private Equity Transparency in Fees: What’s on the Horizon?
According to Blackrock, the private equity industry tripled in the past decade and continues to grow at a lightning pace. This explosive growth has been fuelled partly by an increase in institutional investment. As these dominant investors have rushed in, they have brought significant influence to them. Frustrated by the traditional opacity of the market, […]
Five Critical Questions to Ask When Selecting an Alternative Asset Fund Administrator
If you’re a private equity or venture capital fund manager, few decisions are as critical as how you manage your back office. Between potential liability, overhead and impact on your time, these operations inevitably influence your bottom line. That’s why fund managers are increasingly choosing to outsource these functions. But fund administrators vary in their […]
What is Hong Kong Limited Partnership Fund Regime?
The Hong Kong Limited Partnership Fund (HKLPF) regime, an attractive fund structure that enables private funds to be structured as Hong Kong-domiciled limited partnerships, has recently become talk of the town in the realm of finance. Designed to lure investment managers to launch and operate private investment funds in Hong Kong, HKLPF enables private equity […]
Process resilience in challenging times
As the world continues to battle an international health crisis, this month we wanted to take a look at the topic of process resilience and what this means for alternative asset investors, managers and service providers. What is process resilience? Process resilience as a concept arose from software development, and it is a measure of […]
Responding to market dynamics in fund servicing
Fund administration and servicing is a hot button topic in alternative investments. The conversation has moved on from whether to outsource, to one where service levels and takeover activity are being increasingly scrutinised. Each week, participants see headlines of titanic mergers and acquisitions being financed from the huge pool of commitments that have flooded into […]
Process automation: what does it mean practically?
In the finance world, it is a rare day when we don’t hear about automation and technology transforming how operations are conducted. From AI to robots to machine learning and virtual banks – sometimes the future can seem daunting. In wealth management for example, we now have retail access to products which are completely automated […]
What does “next generation” asset services actually mean?
People are at the heart of any organisation, and it is important to recognise that people are not machines that are content to spend their time mimicking them. People have ambitions, cognition, flexibility, ethics and emotional intelligence that cannot be replicated by machines. In alternative assets though, we subject many people both on the client […]