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. […]
RyanEyes’ Geneva Database Reconversion Tool Automates Manual, Time-Consuming Upgrades Geneva® software was originally developed over 25 years ago in a joint project with Duquesne Capital and Goldman Sachs. The accounting solution is installed in the vast majority of operations in our industry and has evolved considerably with eight major revisions. Geneva’s footprint across prime brokers, […]
RyanEyes is Our Clients’ Second Set of Eyes RyanEyes was created to solve some of the most difficult problems in the financial services industry for our clients which include asset managers, private equity firms, hedge funds, and sell-side firms. For over 20 years, the RyanEyes team has worked side-by-side with our clients to provide them […]
The efficient frontier is defined as “… the set of optimal portfolios that offer the highest expected return for a defined level of risk or the lowest risk for a given level of expected return.” https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/efficientfrontier.asp In the same fashion, processes inherently have a risk v. value calculation The “Efficient Process Frontier” is the set […]
Operational Processes and Operational Efficiency have been likened to any other asset that a firm purchases. For instance, the “Return on Investment” of operational processes is freely bandied about as if processes are like any other asset. In another example, “Process Mining” likens the artifacts of any process, it’s audit trail, to the ore of […]
Do you feel that you don’t understand where you are in any given workflow? Does IT give you a daily report of job failures but you have no sense for what really happened overnight or during the day? Summarizing the logs is insufficient for gaining a true understanding of what’s important. Separate the “Watcher” from […]
