Sponsored

Private equity firms are aggressively competing for Germany’s tech and healthcare success stories but, while currently unloved, the country’s traditional strongholds may also be poised for a comeback.

Regulators and fund managers are adapting to accommodate greater retail investor participation in private markets, say SEI's Ross Ellis and ANZU Research's Steve Unzicker.

The shift to working from home has changed the type of cyber threats facing fund managers and pushed risk mitigation up the agenda, say Sanne Group’s chief technology officer, Marie Measures, and chief strategy officer, Jason Bingham

From non-accredited investors to trading platforms, wider access to private market investments will transform how the industry operates, writes Jay Cipriano, senior vice-president at SEI Investment Manager Services

Timely access to information has become critical for GPs and LPs alike, and the importance of data to value creation is only set to increase, say Tim Toska and Jared Broadbent at Alter Domus

Australia has put the worst of covid behind it, and opportunities for investment in infrastructure-style assets abound, say Pacific Equity Partners managing directors Andrew Charlier and Evan Hattersley.

Fund managers are increasingly outsourcing administrative operations in order to focus on adding value to assets and investor relations, says Ocorian’s head of alternative investments, Simon Burgess.

Buoyed by strong tailwinds from digital disruption and the entrance of new fund managers, the growth equity space offers a compelling proposition for investors, say Moonfare’s Steffen Pauls and Winson Ng.

Will 2021 be the year environmental, social and governance comes of age in finance, as well as in the wider economy? Jill Wilson and Jonas Persson of Lloyds Bank think so.

Technology is empowering managers to outsource with confidence, say BlackRock’s Ludovic Legrand, director and head of business development for asset servicing, and Iain Robertson, vice-president of business development, asset servicing EMEA.