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Delegates at the 2014 forum heard about the challenges around automating the carry waterfalls process – something that’s still true nearly a decade on.
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Private equity has been slow to embrace the use of artificial intelligence, but data is dominant and those that fail to leverage its power may be left behind
Until technology can provide the market with sufficiently standardized transaction templates, its progress will be accretive, not revolutionary
Technology continues to improve the speed and accuracy of private market fund administration, but the bespoke nature of alternative assets still requires that ultimate old-school tool: human capital.
With no shortage of vendors and software dedicated to managing data for private markets, Diligent Equity’s Jeremy Barlow argues that fund managers should approach their technology upgrades with a focus on business outcomes, integration and continual improvement.
Technology is driving efficiencies and helping managers respond to the growing needs of their investors and stakeholders, says Simon Vardon at Sanne, an Apex Group company.
A long-standing aversion toward using technology and automated processes to calculate carry and waterfalls is slowly dissipating, but the private funds industry has some way to go before adoption takes hold across the board.
From AI to automated waterfall processes, tech advances are slowly making inroads in the private funds industry.
GPs may be willing to invest in technology to meet transparency demands from LPs and regulators, but they need solutions that use that data for more than just reporting, say RSM’s Scott Helberg and Christa Clark.