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Here at eFront, we are proud of our commitment and dedication to the alternative investment industry. Browse our Thought Leadership Blog to learn more about what’s going on in the industry through a variety of expert opinions, insightful analyses, and client trends.

Infrastructure
Private debt
Private equity
Real estate
2017

Let’s Talk About Private Equity Risk – From the Bottom Up

Despite record distributions in recent quarters and investors looking to reinvest, many LPs still remain cautious over whether private equity as an asset class is too expensive, too aggressively financed or too susceptible to macroeconomic volatility as a result of liquidity limitations. It seems appropriate to discuss what these cautious fears come down to, namely risk.

Infrastructure
Private debt
Private equity
Real estate
2017

How Technology Facilitates Regulatory Compliance

The global financial crisis of 2008 changed the entire world of financial services, including the alternative investment market, and precipitated the rapid expansion of regulatory initiatives. New regulations, combined with increasing reporting demands from investors, have created an environment with a strong and growing focus on transparency, as well as an equally strong interest among managers in using technology to ease their regulatory burdens.

Infrastructure
Private debt
Private equity
Real estate
2017

Going Mobile in Alternative Investing

I’m not generally an early adopter when it comes to technology. I didn’t get a mobile phone until the late 1990’s, because I was ambivalent about their value. But the first iPhone floored me, and when I bought one, it changed the very nature of computing for me. Where earlier options failed to win me over, I’ve had no ambivalence at all about the value of the successive iPhones I’ve carried.

Real estate
2016

Is Green the new Black in Real Estate?

As the United States and China, the two largest carbon dioxide producing nations,[1] agree to curb their emissions, global attention refocuses on reductions in greenhouse gases. Sustainability certifications and regulations for real estate development and retrofit will play a significant role in this change. But for many real estate owners, the choice to “go green” isn’t just a moral or regulatory imperative, but a financial factor.

Private equity
2016

Emerging trends raise expectations of GPs to report non-financial data

Increasing requirements of stock exchanges, government regulation, and voluntary initiatives are three emerging trends that attempt to provide investors with increased quality and depth of non-financial or environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. While ESG reporting for Private Equity firm holdings may not be mandatory yet, understanding these trends and proactively developing policies and practices for ESG data collection and reporting is both pragmatic and strategic for GPs. There are many operational benefits of collecting and reporting on non-financial data of portfolio companies, but these three emerging trends illustrate the external incentives to do so.

Private equity
2016

Updates from Around the World

A global perspective on private investment operations and opportunities is essential. In this article, eFront offers an international view of issues and trends relevant to the alternative investment market with dispatches from around the world from three of our business unit leaders.

Infrastructure
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Private equity
Real estate
2015

France, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Malta, British Crown Dependencies Sign FATCA IGAs

On November 14, 2013, France signed an intergovernmental agreement (“IGA”) regarding FATCA with the United States, becoming the 10th country to join the global FATCA network taking effect on July 1, 2014. The Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Malta, the British Crown Dependencies (Jersey, Guernsey, and Isle of Man), and the Netherlands followed suit shortly thereafter, bringing the total number of IGA countries to 17, and joining the ranks of the U.K., Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Spain and Switzerland.

Private equity
2015

eFront CEO, Olivier Dellenbach, talks about trends in private equity software on unquote.com

“Private equity has always been a people business,” said unquote” editor Greg Gille as he began his interview with Olivier Dellenbach, eFront CEO. More and more, it seems, it’s also becoming a software business. In an unquote” video interview recorded on July 3, 2012, Gille and Dellenbach discuss the current trends and coming changes in the private equity software solutions market.

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