Solutions
The alternative investment industry is developing new ways of sharing data across the whole value chain – from portfolio companies and holdings to funds and investors – and from asset servicers to asset managers and asset owners. Luxembourg, as a fund domicile, has been building its niche of expertise in this space and evolving to better serve the whole eco-system as the appeal of particular asset classes continues to grow.
Investors are calling for greater visibility into their portfolios, as well as more control, fuelled by political and economic instability, and volatile markets. Due diligence is of the highest priority as investors seek to mitigate risk and identify stable and reliable general partners (GPs) to work with.
Private equity fund-raising is expected to be more challenging, in the face of a global recession. However, opportunities in real estate and private credit funds are forecast to grow at a fast pace, as progress in technology and services supports this expansion.
Apex Group has completed its acquisition of the fund services and third-party management company business operations of Maitland International Holdings, an international fund services provider.
Caplight has launched Caplight Data, a tool for tracking venture-backed private company stock prices, valuations, and trading activity, providing users with access to dataset of over 10,000 private company transactional data points.
Global law firm K&L Gates has opened a new office in Dublin, its 48th office worldwide and ninth in Europe. The launch includes the hiring of asset management and investment funds lawyers Gayle Bowen, Shane Geraghty, and Michelle Lloyd as the office’s founding partners.
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.”
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12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
