Under pressure
December - 2017 By Marine Cole. CFOs of lower mid-market private equity firms are facing mounting demands on the back and middle office, but finding the right release valve for fund administration duties is not always so simple. Private equity chief financial is a role that seems be constantly expanding, with an egrowings list of fund administration responsibilities falling in its purview – from tax and portfolio reporting to responding to LP demands. They can no longer handle all these tasks on their own and need to choose between hiring internally or outsourcing specific functions. pfm gathered two CFOs and two fund administrators in New York in October to discuss how a CFO can address private equity fund administration in 2017. “The CFO role has evolved immensely from when I started talking to CFOs in the community 15 years ago,” says Jeff Gendel, a managing [...]