As a fund manager or fund administrator in a private equity, hedge fund, or other alternative investment firms, the number of tasks that are assigned has grown significantly and for most has become cumbersome, unwieldy, and worst of all risky. What I mean is that with front, middle, and back-office responsibilities including operations, accounting, risk, […]
The Key to Evaluating Investment Opportunities The critical variables in an asset management data warehouse are position, performance, risk, and transaction. Asset managers have had the unenviable task of assembling this data from a variety of intelligence sources to generate the actual calculations, insights, and reports to assess opportunities. To make matters worse, managers had […]
Private Equity Fund Administration includes functions related to the fund’s operations including functions such as regulatory and compliance, fund accounting, audit oversight, investor reporting, and tax requirements. As technology, automation, and transparent processes are centered around management and workflow, automating standard processes allows the fund administrator to minimize workflow friction and improve job throughput. Fund […]
Strategy-Based Portfolio Manager Reporting 101 Expense allocation for hedge fund and private equity fund managers is a task largely avoided, even at some of the larger hedge funds. Small and medium-sized investment managers of all strategies may well benefit by implementing an expense allocation process, and/or system, to ensure they are not only maximizing ROI […]
A Primer on Fund Compliance Management Hedge funds and other alternative investment vehicles that provide investment exposure to risk factors not associated with traditional investing use a broad range of portfolio strategies and are open to a similarly broad range of compliance issues. Their investors demand strong disclosure, valuation, risk management, trading, and compliance practices. […]
