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As fund structures become more complex and investor demands intensify, co-sourcing offers managers access to specialist expertise and scalable infrastructure, says CSC’s global head of fund solutions, Ram Chandrasekar.

AI is becoming a major part of fund administration, but building a strategy that delivers accuracy, oversight and auditability remains a challenge, says RSM’s William Andreoni.

Portfolio company CIOs in PE-backed companies play a critical role in maximising value through the alignment of technology to the investment thesis, say Deloitte’s Victoria Bovaird and Shalini Bhatia.

Factors such as fund structuring flexibility and reporting excellence are becoming more important for LPs when selecting GPs, says Edouard Eloy of BNP Paribas’ Securities Services business.

In this episode of Private Equity Spotlight, Cinven’s Sam Williams and KPMG’s Paul Pan outline evolving strategies for building resilience and driving long-term growth across the portfolio.

Individual investors are increasingly being provided with institutional-quality access to private markets, say Brett Schlemovitz, partner and president of StepStone Private Wealth, and Miguel Sosa, managing director at StepStone.

Embracing private wealth solutions can help longstanding institutional LPs as well as smaller private wealth investors, says Erwan Paugam, senior managing director and head of private wealth solutions at Ardian.

The expansion of private markets is underpinned by nuanced innovation in fund structures and sponsor partnership, say Nicole Runyan, Brad Green and Jamie Hahn, partners in the investment funds practice at Kirkland & Ellis.

The democratisation of private equity is not about granting access to private markets, but restoring prior access to economic growth, says Rajib Chanda, global head of asset management at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.

Hybrid fund structures are an increasingly attractive route to democratisation, say Ropes & Gray’s Keith MacLeod and Capital Group’s Erik Vayntrub and Clara Kang.