Elaine Chim has built a career cutting through the hype of fund operations, outsourcing and strategy. She is a Global Head of Product for Closed-Ended Funds at Apex Group and a member of Apex’s Executive Committee. Apex Group is dedicated to driving positive change in financial services while fueling the growth and ambitions of asset managers, allocators, financial institutions, and family offices. For over two decades, the Group has continually disrupted the asset serving industry through its continuous investment in innovation and talent. Today, Apex Group sets the pace in asset servicing and stands out for its unique single-source solution and unified cross asset-class platform which supports the entire value chain, harnesses leading innovative technology, and benefits from cross-jurisdictional expertise delivered by a long-standing management team and over 13,000 highly integrated professionals. We will ask Elaine how Apex has been able to achieve this while at the same time acquiring a number of key firms and companies in their space.

Navigating carried interest planning can be challenging, but having a better understanding of different structure models may provide some additional clarity to your firm.

Listen in as Paul Patrow and Esther Chiang, partners at Paul Hastings, discuss different carried interest planning structures and answer any open questions about the models.

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 of PE and VC workflows last.

We ask Steven Boydstun of MUFG why, and why what you should do next is not what you think. Steven explains why the right next step is not to sit back and get complacent. Steven discusses why smart firms are going the other way, and tripling down on the right technologies.