A co-investment puts money into one company directly, next to a GP’s fund. If you are also an LP in that fund, or in another fund that owns the same company, your real exposure is the sum of all those positions, and no single statement shows it. This guide explains where co-investment exposure hides, how…

Look-through analysis means looking past your fund interests to what the funds own: the companies, industries, countries, and securities underneath each NAV. For a limited partner with a dozen or more private funds, it is how you see your total exposure to a sector, a region, or a single company. This guide covers what look-through…

A schedule of investments (SOI) is the part of a fund’s financial statements that lists what the fund owns. Each line typically shows an investment’s name, type, industry, country, shares or principal amount, cost, and fair value, usually with its percentage of the fund’s net assets. For a limited partner, it is the standard record…

Sage Intacct is a capable cloud general ledger, and Sage and its partners actively market it to family offices for multi-entity consolidation and dimensional reporting. Family offices hit its limits on the investment side: tax lots, private fund capital activity, partnership allocations, and K-1s. This guide compares 5 alternatives, and how to keep Sage Intacct…

NetSuite is a strong ERP for running businesses, and many family offices adopt it for its multi-entity consolidation. The friction starts with investments: positions across custodians, private fund capital calls, partnership allocations, and K-1s are not what an ERP is built around. This guide compares 5 alternatives for family offices, and when keeping NetSuite still…

Fund of funds portfolio management software helps a fund of funds decide where to commit, track what each underlying fund is doing, and report the results to its own investors. It covers commitments and cash flows, performance and look-through exposure, manager analytics, and investor reporting, and it is only as reliable as the data underneath…

Fund of funds accounting software keeps the books of a fund that invests in other funds. It has two jobs: tracking every commitment, capital call, distribution, and NAV statement from the underlying funds, and allocating the results to the fund of funds’ own investors through capital accounts, fees, and statements. This guide explains how fund…