Private Credit Funds: Challenges and Opportunities May 16, 2023 | SS&C Changes in the mainstream lending landscape and the market's less volatile nature drive more fund managers toward the private credit space. Preqin recently estimated the market's growth rate is accelerating to 17.4% annually, with private debt becoming the second largest private capital asset class…

Marketing Intent: Marketing That Helps Bring Capital In The Door May 15, 2023 | Marketing Intent If you’re not doing marketing that’s helping bring capital in the door, why are you doing it? THE REALITY IS THAT THERE’S A LOT OF MARKETING DONE IN OUR INDUSTRY THAT JUST DOES NOT SUPPORT THE SALES EFFORT. Sales-Focused…

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Altigo Surpasses $3B in Alts Transactions May 11, 2023 | Heather Acey Less than a year after hitting the $2 billion mark, Altigo has crossed $3 billion in alternative investments completed on the platform, a new milestone revealing enduring demand for transformative alts technology and amplified interest in alternatives as a way to weatherproof investor…

Marketing Intent: The Power Of The Pivot May 9, 2023 | Marketing Intent Your fund just closed and you expected it to be open for six more months. Your marketing plan is out the window. So what do you do next? THIS IS WHERE THE POWER OF THE PIVOT IN BUSINESS COMES INTO PLAY. Changing…

Zero-Click Content May 1, 2023 | Marketing Intent If something says, “Read Here,” are you apt to click? Or does that call to action make you feel inconvenienced or bored and you move on? LET’S DISCUSS ZERO-CLICK CONTENT, AN EMERGING TREND IN MARKETING THAT REQUIRES – YOU GUESSED IT – ZERO CLICKS TO ACCESS CONTENT.…

Expect more from a full-service alternative investment transfer agent May 1, 2023 | Computershare Growing your alternative investment portfolio is challenging – there are risks everywhere. Managing complex stakeholder engagement and mitigating risk across board composition, voting, corporate secretarial responsibilities, tax and regulatory reporting, and corporate events can be complex and time consuming. Alternative investments…

Automation is critical to modernizing the loan market April 27, 2023 | Steve Sulecki | SS&C With institutional investors allocating to debt funds in growing numbers, it's not surprising private equity and hedge fund managers are interested in diversifying into this sector. However, they are navigating significant operational and accounting challenges.  Despite the growth and…

Trend following and the diversification potential of positive skew April 26, 2023 | Andrew Snyder | CAIS Investors tend to rely upon well-known risk-adjusted return measures—such as Sharpe and Sortino ratios—when using alternative strategies to build diversified portfolios and extract differentiated returns. But are investors sometimes forgetting about other important properties that may create a…