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Outsourced Investment Analyst for Smarter Research

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Outsourced Investment Analyst for Smarter Research By: Tanya Jain  April 6, 2026 Share:        Investment management  firms are fundamentally looking at the way in which the research and analysis function is organized in response to the changing nature of markets, which are becoming more data-intensive, dynamic, and interconnected. Nevertheless, the completely in-house model is also facing increasing challenges from the rise of structured and alternative data, changing regulations, and the need for faster and more insightful decision-making. In addition, the challenges facing fee structures and margins make it hard for firms to maintain large and sophisticated research and analysis functions across asset classes and geographies. Accordingly, investment management firms are seeking more flexible and hybrid operating models to leverage external analytical capabilities. Within this context, the outsourced investment analyst model has emerged as a strategic ena...
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Optimizing Deal Execution for Faster Closures and Higher Returns

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Optimizing Deal Execution for Faster Closures and Higher Returns By: Dhanita Arora  April 3, 2026 Share:        Deal execution is now characterized by measurable aspects of deal-making speed and efficiency as well as capital deployment results instead of merely deal completion processes. According to Bain & Company, top-quartile private equity firms achieve deal completion 20-30% faster than median-quartile firms. This means faster access to competitive deal flow. On the other hand, McKinsey & Company found that deal execution frameworks can increase accuracy in decision-making processes by as much as 30%, hence reducing mis-pricing risks in high-multiple deal-making. With private equity dry powder now above $3 trillion globally, as Preqin found out, efficient execution is now a quantifier for deal-making differentiation. Deal execution now affects deal-making entry prices as well as deal-making certainty. In competitive deal-making processes such as auc...
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Bridging Valuation Gaps with DCF modeling in Fundraising

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Bridging Valuation Gaps with DCF modeling in Fundraising By: Nitin Kumar  April 1, 2026 Share:        Valuation  is one of the most contentious areas in fundraising in the current capital markets. As startups and growth-stage companies look to raise capital, the gap between their internal assessment of their business value and investors’ willingness to pay for it has grown significantly.    Valuation Surge Amid Selective Deal Activity According to data from PitchBook, the median valuations for startups have fallen by 15-25% across various stages from 2022 to 2024. This is a correction after the peak funding environment in 2021. However, the gap in valuations is a result of founders’ high valuations, especially for earlier-stage companies.    The gap in valuations is not just a result of over- or under-optimism. There is a fundamental difference in approach. Founders focus on potential, while investors focus on returns. In this conte...
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Driving Investment Edge with AI in Portfolio Management

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Driving Investment Edge with AI in Portfolio Management By: Nitin Kumar  March 30, 2026 Share:        AI in portfolio management is no longer a “nice to have” but a necessity as investment complexity rises and traditional alpha declines. With global AUM expected to reach $200 trillion by 2030 and nearly 85% of active managers underperforming benchmarks, firms are rethinking how they make investment decisions. The use of AI in portfolio management is a solution to this problem, where the firm can enhance its ability to improve the precision of its investment decision-making process. At the same time, the firm can manage exponentially increasing data sets consistently. As background, in the context of the more data-intensive and interconnected investment marketplace, firms that are using AI in their decision-making and investment process are more likely to be able to transform information into investment alpha, as opposed to simply gathering more information. AI i...
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