Amy Carroll
Costly tech stacks are accelerating the trend towards outsourcing.
Talent management remains the critical operational lever, amid a strong hiring market for private debt.
Good environmental, social and corporate governance practices are essential, but the operating models to support them remain immature.
How fund leaders really feel about a watershed moment in the history of private markets.
Public markets volatility, the Biden administration and Brexit all rank above covid as causes for concern.
The remit of fund service providers is widening as a global pandemic and technological and regulatory pressures force managers to turn to outside help.
With portfolios largely intact and banks in retreat, the mid-market private debt industry is ready to declare victory over covid.
Talent retention and succession strategies are gaining greater weight in due diligence processes as gripes over key person clauses grow.
But investors express concern over shifting terms, with a significant minority worried about the extent to which GPs are using credit lines.
The social and economic vulnerabilities exposed by the coronavirus could propel the world of impact investment to new levels.