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10.06.2025 – Articles
The FCA’s recent review into private market valuations has certainly brought renewed focus to the topic of governance in private fund structures, writes Kroll’s Ryan McNelley, who asserts that regardless of scheduled or ad hoc, valuation governance must be tightened.
09.06.2025 – Articles
Firms focused on upgrading and automating their finance and ops functions will win out in these stubbornly uncertain and volatile times, write Andre Boreas of Quadsight.
03.06.2025 – Contributors
According to Holland Mountain’s Eunice Cho, by leveraging advanced data solutions and improving their partnerships with administrators, fund managers more effectively position themselves for scalability, efficiency, and adaptability amidst increasing complexity.
27.05.2025 – Articles
The UK risks becoming a regulatory museum; preserving an obsolete EU framework while global capital flies ever more rapidly to the EU and jurisdictions embracing commercial pragmatism.
06.05.2025 – Articles
The industry is failing the next generation of finance and operational professionals; here’s what we’re doing about it.
30.04.2025 – Articles
Size once signalled strength. Today, bigger isn’t always better.
31.03.2025 – Contributors
Andre Boreas of Quadsight Partners takes us on a guided tour through the evolution of tech solutions in private capital; from slow beginnings to major acceleration as scalability becomes top of mind and managers ramp up their use of new technologies.
25.03.2025 – Contributors
Columnist and HR specialist Laura Callahan explores what the next generation cares about most – including authenticity, sustainability and purpose – and how this applies at work.
19.03.2025 – Contributors
Chasing trends won’t win over LPs – conviction will
10.03.2025 – Contributors
Over the past six months I’ve had meetings with 57 different PE firms, mostly with technology leaders or management-level professionals. Here are the four most common tech goals.
26.02.2025 – Contributors
According to columnist and HR specialist Laura Callahan, new talent has never enjoyed job security and therefore has no job loyalty. With this cohort increasingly being headhunted, she provides practical advice on how to retain junior team members.
19.02.2025 – Contributors
Rewire’s Anika Scott details the pitfalls of overly polished investor pitches and provides practical guidance on how to communicate with authenticity.
11.02.2025 – Contributors
KBRA’s Mauricio Noé details the drivers behind sub-line ratings, as well as the benefits and obstacles.
29.01.2025 – Contributors
Columnist and HR specialist Laura Callahan reveals what actually motivates junior talent.
21.10.2024 – Articles
As private equity firms double down on sector-focused investment strategies, thanks to today’s reliance on expansive digital infrastructures, a cyber breach at one external vendor or service provider in this complex digital supply chain can have devastating effects on an entire portfolio.
01.10.2024 – Articles
LP-GP expert Anthony Kwesi Hagan, highlights several ways effective and ineffective counterarguments are constructed in the concerns section of due diligence reports. He urges GPs to ease the report-building process for LP through honest exchanges, unwavering transparency, and authentic objectivity.
24.09.2024 – Articles
Anthony Kwesi Hagan, LP-GP relationship expert and founder of Freedomization, details the ways in which LPs attempt to map out a GP’s character.
17.09.2024 – Articles
Anthony Kwesi Hagan, founder and head of research at Freedomization, turns the ‘fault-seeking magnifying glass inwards’ and calls out LP behaviours not conducive to a constructive relationship. These include: giving false hope, ghosting, lecturing and being just plain rude.
09.08.2024 – Contributors
Taylor Wessing’s Alex Walker highlights a recent High Court ruling where the court dismissed an application for an interim injunction aimed at preventing a former manager from a PE-backed business breaching restrictive covenants
23.07.2024 – Contributors
Exploring how non-EU funds can be effectively distributed in Europe, the impact of this from a legal/regulatory perspective and the cost differences between electing to use a passported Luxembourg based fund solution and marketing a non-EU fund under Article 42 of AIFMD.