CFOs & COOs Forum

The move to virtual was in many ways welcomed by finance and accounting professionals, said panelists at sessions of the Private Equity International CFOs & COOs Forum on Wednesday.

Large institutional managers with sophisticated data and IT systems are more equipped to handle increased transparency requests from investors, experts say.

PE firms are re-visiting strategic plans and training focus inward, than expanding through M&A, a conference has heard.

Katey Bogue, who was once a principal of fund management operations and enterprise data at The Carlyle Group, knows how GPs think when it comes to data management.

PEF Services CEO and president Anne Anquillare covers a host of hot topics in fees and expenses, including whether the two-and-twenty model is under threat.

Withum partner Tom Angell speaks with Graeme Kerr about how reporting has changed in recent years, the biggest areas of abiding controversy and where he thinks we will be in 10 years.

Neuberger Berman's Brien Smith talks to senior editor Isobel Markham about what he sees as the most important near-term regulatory developments in private funds

The 40-year private equity veteran tells delegates at the CFOs & COOs Forum 2020 about Thoma Bravo’s meteoric scale-up and why he foresees private equity fees taking a hit.

Brien Smith, COO of Neuberger Berman’s private equity division, weighed in on the big industry issues and the profound changes on the horizon.

LPs are warming to sub lines, PE is under political fire and opening up to retail investors could take the ‘private’ out of 'private equity.’