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Fund Accounting
Why Autonomous Fund Administration Is the Future of Alternative Investment Operations
Legacy fund administrators rely on spreadsheets, manual workflows, and third-party systems patched together over decades. A new generation of AI-native platforms is eliminating that dependency entirely — and the performance gap is widening every quarter.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.