February 2014 Issue

    Month: February
    Year: 2014

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    Persistence pays

    We asked investors to rank the following GP-related issues in order of significance to their private equity portfolios as they looked ahead to 2014

    Best face forward

    We challenged website design expert Andrew Lipstein to identify a few common threads in some of the less appealing sites used by GPs.

    Find your match

    With multiple software vendors competing for attention, Tony Piper advises how to find one that meets your firm’s particular wants and needs

    Outsourcing responsibility

    GPs are being advised to fight the temptation of outsourcing all of their FATCA reporting responsibilities.

    Six ways to avoid an IT mishap

    Lack of due diligence and inadequate training are among some of the most common mistakes a fund advisor can make when updating and maintaining its IT infrastructure

    A battle brewing

    GPs and LPs are in desperate need of a single data standard to automate information sharing. One industry group, the AltExchange Alliance, is working to achieve just that. But its success may be in jeopardy without the support of more software vendors.

    Greater expectations

    LPs continue to think that fund managers are not investing sufficiently in their IR function, according to new research — but could they be doing more about it?