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How Automation Can Ease The Carry and Compensation Burden

Demystifying Carried Interest Automation: A Keynote Q&A with PFA CEO Richard Change Finance is increasingly leaning on automation. However, its implementation involves complexities when it...

PFA Solutions Launches FirmView® Compensation, Planning and Recommendations Module

Firmview CPR allows firms to drive value for investors through clear alignment and understanding of compensation and rewards

The Private Capital Talent Series Episode 10: Fund operations, where workflow innovation goes to die

The spreadsheet is never going to go away in private capital fund operations. And AI, RPA and blockchain are going to arrive on the shores...

Five notable real-life spreadsheet related mistakes

Spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets are critical tools for CFOs and Heads of Finance. The examples below illustrate the impact of spreadsheet-related...

Carried Interest Participant Allocation Plans: A Field Guide

Breaking Barriers: Unraveling Compensation & Carry Complexities in Private Equity Navigating the modern private equity landscape can feel like deciphering an intricate puzzle, particularly when...

Carried Interest Participant Allocation Plans: Controls for Managing Carried Interest Data

Transform Your Private Capital Compensation Management Navigating the fast-paced and evolving landscape of private capital compensation poses significant challenges, especially when it comes to managing...

When the cracks begin to grow in your finance team’s foundation

Are cracks beginning to show in your carry and compensation process? Growing complexity may be the cause, and rehauling your data management foundation can help.

Four Ways Technology Can Help PE and VC Firms Make Compensation and Carried Interest Plans More Transparent

In recent years, private capital firms have invested in deploying technology solutions across critical business areas, such as investor relations, accounting, and portfolio management. Earlier...

There is such a thing as wanting to automate too much

In most cases, we find ourselves helping firms talk their team into letting go of their toxic relationship with spreadsheets, and embracing automation. But sometimes...

The Private Capital Talent Series Episode 9: Cross-functional efficiencies and streamlining the investment closing process for deal teams

Mark Feirman of Cross Rapids Capital answers questions on cross-functional efficiencies, specifically streamlining the investment closing process for deal teams, LP onboarding and client communications,...

We Wanted to Highlight Some of our Clients’ Accomplishments Over the Past Year

We are proud to be working with clients that are leading the way in the alternative investments space. Here were some of their accomplishments in...

Private Capital Talent Series Episode 8: Midwestern private capital and operational excellence

Isabel Chirase of Drive Capital discusses the tested realities and opportunities of breaking new ground in the VC world, including the new geography of operational...

Private Capital Talent Series Episode 7: Arming emerging managers for private capital 2.0

Episode 7 of The Private Capital Talent Series features PKF O’Connor Davies’ Michael Stellwagen and PFA Solutions’ Ryan Burger for an assessment of today’s environment...

Twelve Private Capital Firms Select FirmView® by PFA Solutions

Firms poised to drive value for investors through clear alignment and understanding of compensation and rewards Read the official press release by clicking here. FAIRFAX,...

Private Capital Talent Series Episode 6: Carried interest as a unique talent lever

Episode 6 of The Private Capital Talent Series below features Kyle Burrell of EY on carried interest as a unique lever for talent retention! https://vimeo.com/727228848...

Private Capital Talent Series Episode 5: What to watch for in fund admin consolidation

Watch episode 5 of The Private Capital Talent Series below with Jeff Solomon of Paddock Capital Markets! https://vimeo.com/727191303 Chris Gale 00:02 Welcome to the Private...

Private Capital Talent Series Episode 4: Raising your second fund and managing talent liquidity

We’ve invited top tier private capital consultant Melanie Cohen and PFA’s Ryan Burger to talk about raising your second (or third fund) and talent liquidity...

Private Capital Talent Series Episode 3: How PE/VC CFO’s get the resources they need from the front office

We’ve invited TMF Group’s Kwame Lewis and PFA’s Ryan Burger to talk about why the front office wants CFOs to do more with less …...

Private Capital Talent Series Episode 2: Lessons from digitizing private capital

What are your peers doing to take the right lessons from the recent fundraising and deal wave and turn them into rational next steps for...

Private Fund Data and Analytics – Industry practices for implementing fund analytics solutions

"Private Fund Data and Analytics" is an article on private capital data aggregation and visualization tools to enable 24/7 access to information for employees and...

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