The folks here at Ryan Eyes serve the finance industry and in particular private equity and hedge funds. As most of you know GameStop and several other heavily shorted stocks identified and bought by investors have had a major impact on hedge funds. In this blog post, we want to explore the story and perhaps […]
Investor Balance Tracking and Performance Reporting for Hedge Fund and Private Equity Firms Increasing complexity challenges firms that have elected to use a hybrid private equity/hedge fund investor entity structure. It combines the exacting timelines for investor reporting typical of hedge funds with the tailored structures that are also typical of private equity firms. When […]
Maximizing Workflow Efficiency for Fund Managers and Administrators Operations and fund administration in financial services firms has never been more challenging. Handling the complex and mounting responsibility of managing workflow, jobs, tasks, and projects is critical to meeting investor, accounting, and compliance needs. Ryan Eyes’ software is specifically designed to empower operations with visibility, control, […]
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. […]
Ryan Eyes is Our Clients’ Second Set of Eyes Ryan Eyes 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 Ryan Eyes team has worked side-by-side with our clients […]
