Fund Accounting
Month-End NAV Reconciliation: A Checklist for Hedge Fund Controllers
How leading hedge fund controllers structure their month-end close — from trade reconciliation to shadow NAV sign-off — and where automation delivers the biggest gains.
May 28, 2025 6 min read
Investor Management
Waterfall Calculations Done Right: Avoiding the Spreadsheet Errors That Cost Managers
A breakdown of the most common waterfall calculation errors in private equity and real estate funds — and the systemic change needed to prevent them at scale.
May 14, 2025 7 min read
Technology
Replacing Advent Geneva: What Funds Are Discovering After the Switch
A candid look at why mid-sized hedge funds and PE firms are migrating away from Geneva — and what the transition actually involves in terms of data, workflow, and timing.
April 30, 2025 9 min read
Operations
How to Structure Your Fund's Back Office Before Your First Close
The back-office decisions that new fund managers get wrong — and the framework that institutional-quality emerging managers use to set themselves up from day one.
April 17, 2025 5 min read
Regulatory
AIFMD II and the Back-Office Implications Every European Fund Manager Needs to Know
The revised Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive introduces new reporting, delegation, and liquidity requirements. Here's what your operations team needs to prepare for.
April 3, 2025 10 min read
Investor Management
What LPs Actually Expect From Your Investor Portal in 2025
LP expectations around transparency, reporting frequency, and digital access have shifted sharply. We look at what fund managers are getting right — and wrong — with their investor portals.
March 20, 2025 6 min read
Technology
The Case for a Single-Vendor Technology Stack in Fund Operations
Most fund back offices are stitched together from five or more vendors. We make the case for why single-platform architecture produces better outcomes — faster close cycles, fewer errors, lower cost.
March 6, 2025 7 min read
Operations
K-1 Season Without the Pain: How Automated Tax Workflows Change the Calculation
For most fund accountants, Q1 means K-1 season. We walk through how automated tax lot accounting and allocation workflows compress a six-week process into under two weeks.
February 19, 2025 5 min read
Fund Accounting
Side Pockets, Co-Invest Vehicles, and Feeder Structures: Accounting Across Complex Fund Architectures
Modern fund structures have outpaced legacy accounting systems. We look at how technology platforms need to handle side pockets, feeders, and co-invest vehicles without manual workarounds.
February 5, 2025 8 min read