Outsourcing

The consulting firm sold its data and analytics, and business outsourcing divisions to Apex as it winds down.

PE firms are also struggling with operational efficiency and managing data, Crestbridge’s first mood index shows.

Far from acting as often flawed stopgaps, interim CFOs at PE-backed companies can act as critical transformational figures, write Accordion senior managing directors Craig Boucher and Keith Maib.

The service provider’s hire in a growing business area builds on pipeline from investment firm.

CFOs in the alternative investment management industry face huge time and cost pressures from all directions in their job. Ebury's Jack Sirett says generalist service providers are costing them on both fronts.

The fund administrator is waiting for regulatory approval to launch management company and fund distribution services in Sweden.

Examiners are digging in on outsource contracts and firm oversight, even while a new rule – which the SEC says will harm competition – is pending.

Driving factors include a desire to focus on investing, cost effectiveness and increasing regulatory complexity.

A proposed regulation governing outsourced services gives examples of what would be in the rule and what services would be outside the rule.

The complexity of doing business means PE and VC firms are seeing rising legal costs, according to a survey from Apperio.