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General Partner Profiling: A Guide to Smarter Fund Selection

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General Partner Profiling: A Guide to Smarter Fund Selection By: Tanya Jain November 6, 2026 Share: General partner profiling has emerged as a critical component of investment decision-making because institutional investors face challenges in selecting the right managers, managing risk, and achieving consistent returns on investment. General partner profiling is not simply a matter of reviewing performance metrics. Limited partners (LPs) must understand a manager’s investment discipline, leadership capabilities, operational expertise, and ability to deliver returns across different business environments. The McKinsey Global Private Markets Report 2026 states that total capital raised by closed-end private equity funds worldwide declined by 17% to $616 billion in 2025, whereas deal value increased by 19% to $2.6 trillion. With liquidity declining and holding periods lengthening, investors are being prompted to scrutinize fund managers more closely. Thank you for reading this post, ...

Financial Process Outsourcing: Market Size and 2026 Trends

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Financial Process Outsourcing: Market Size and 2026 Trends By: Nitin Kumar November 2, 2026 Share: Financial Process Outsourcing is becoming a strategic finance solution as organisations face rising reporting demands, regulatory complexity, talent shortages, and rapid AI adoption. This article examines the market’s growth, key adoption drivers, regional shifts, investment activity, and emerging opportunities shaping the FPO landscape in 2026 and beyond. Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe! Why Financial Process Outsourcing Is Scaling Fast in 2026 Financial Process Outsourcing is shifting from a cost-saving tactic to a core finance strategy worldwide. The global market reached $29.64B in 2026, up from $27.36B in 2025, growing at an 8.3% CAGR, and is expected to approach $40.58B by 2030. Growth is increasingly driven by AI access, regulatory complexity, and rising reporting demands. Alternative investment managers are outsourcing fund accounting , NAV calcu...

Venture Capital Outsourcing: Scaling Investment Operations

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Venture Capital Outsourcing: Scaling Investment Operations By: Aman Agrawal October 29, 2026 Share: Venture capital outsourcing is entering a new operating phase. Capital deployment has accelerated sharply in 2026. The market is not getting any easier to understand. Investors are looking at information, trying to win over a smaller number of top ideas handling more complicated investments and facing more pressure from their limited partners to show they are careful and open. Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe! KPMG’s Venture Pulse said that $227.4 billion was invested in global venture capital during the second quarter of 2026. This happened across 8,440 deals. This made it the highest quarter ever recorded. The total for the first half of 2026 reached $560.4 billion. That already went beyond the totals of every year except 2021. The big numbers hide a market that is very tight. Outsourcing does not substitute decision-making. Rather, outsourcing provi...

LP Communications Outsourcing: Building Stronger Investor Relations

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LP Communications Outsourcing: Building Stronger Investor Relations By: Dhanita Arora October 26, 2026 Share: There has been increased competition, institutionalisation and data usage in private capital. There is a need for the GPs to offer more to the LPs than just performance figures. Some of the information needed includes consistency in reporting, analysis at the level of the portfolio, performance information, capital accounting, market commentaries, among others. Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe! Such an environment is generating increasing opportunities for LP communications outsourcing. LP communications outsourcing entails outsourcing repetitive investor communications and reporting processes to specialist external personnel while the GP keeps control over the investor relations, messaging and sign-offs. Tasks could include quarterly investor reports, LP letters, performance reporting, capital calls/distributions, investor presentations, data ...