Solutions
In light of an ever-shifting regulatory environment and challenges around talent and technology, private equity firms are leaning more heavily on their service providers for support which will allow them to focus on their core capabilities.
RFA, a specialist IT provider to the alternative investment sector, has enhanced its cyber security offering for hedge and private equity funds with the addition of external surface attack management and dark web breach and exposure monitoring solutions.
External attack surface management provides visibility and risk assessment for organisations’ PKI (public key infrastructure), Cloud, DNS (domain name system), mail and web internet-facing infrastructures along the digital supply chain as well as any vendors implicated in these infrastructures.
Dark web breach and exposure monitoring meanwhile, looks for exposed employee logins and PII (personally identifiable information) against a global repository of recovered
ESG continues to sit at the top of the agenda for private market investors and managers. The challenge of putting this data into context is becoming critical for industry participants in order to understand how they compare to their peers and to meet emerging investor and regulator expectations. Linking these metrics to financial performance is also crucial to optimize growth.
Private equity managers face a number of challenges relating to data – namely issues around aggregation, analysis, security and delivery. Smart deployment of technology solutions can help alleviate these pressures.
“Having access to time-saving and risk-reducing technology will continue to play an important role in the success of PE managers,” says Jill Calton, executive director of Alternative Investments at UMB Fund Services, Inc., “The most relevant services and solutions include onboarding investors, clearing regulatory hurdles related to AML efficiently and effectively, maintaining data in a secure and standardised format, and the ability to utilise that data for analytics and reporting.”
PE
VI Asset Management has appointed Apex Group to provide fund administration services to its inaugural evergreen Asia private credit fund.
CEPRES, a specialist in private market data and investment technology, has launched an expanded version of the CEPRES Fund Screener, which now provides benchmarks to over 11,000 institutional-grade illiquid funds invested in 108,000 PE-backed portfolio companies.
The upgrades to Fund Screener, part of the firm’s Due Diligence suite, include: enhanced track record analytics; sharing of funds, deals, time series and portfolio company data; benchmarking; and the ability to communicate and request investment data from more than 2,000 GPs via CEPRES’s confidential data network — fundamentally improving user experience and track record analysis impact.
Fund Screener provides LPs with analysis
Third Bridge, an investment research company serving private equity funds, hedge funds, mutual funds and management consulting firms, has launched Maps, a new way to visualise public and private company value chains in a single view, helping investors fast-track early-stage research within minutes.
Third Bridge currently has almost 10k Maps featuring over 100,000 companies and coverage is growing rapidly. Each value chain map illustrates an entity’s key structure, suppliers, customers, and competitors, allowing investors to prioritise their research focus and navigate through Third Bridge’s integrated content platform.
Maps are created by Third Bridge analysts who conduct in-depth profiling sessions
According to a Hedgeweek global survey, 82% of fund managers suggested capital raising is the biggest barrier they face. But like many sales related activities, it’s a numbers game. The more people you touch, the greater chance you have of raising capital. Managing the capital raising process in a structured and professional way maximizes your chance of successfully achieving your fundraising goals.
The current environment is creating ripe opportunities for foreign managers seeking looking to raise capital in Japan as local investors and institutions look for fixed income substitutes to supplement returns. Having a local presence can help elevate their offer, however they have to be patient and persistent as business practice tends to move at a slower pace.
Historically, Japanese portfolios have been heavily focused on domestic fixed income assets, with these investments representing the lion’s share of most holdings. However, this is changing.
Stan Howard, found and director, Teneo Partners, comments: “In spite of the fact that Japanese investors are, relative
Goji, an FCA regulated, UK-based technology firm that offers investors digital access to alternative investments, has partnered with global financial services provider Apex Group to enable alternative asset management clients to manage all stages of the investor lifecycle.
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12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
