The Digital Waterfall Conundrum. Cascata breaking down the barriers for Fund Administrators and GPs

In the realm of private equity fund administration, carried interest accounting and client financial disclosure stand out as the most crucial and complex responsibilities for fund administrators and managers (GPs). These processes are the benchmarks that distinguish service delivery quality and establish client trust. Despite the growing demand for automated waterfall solutions and the promise of enhanced operational efficiency and service quality, commercial adoption has been limited. Why? View Whitepaper

Cascata is Delivering Major Efficiency & Operational Savings for Fund Administrators

There is a shift among fund administrators’ priorities with gravitation to back-office automation to drive greater efficiency, service quality, and scale to keep pace with the fierce industry competition, client margin pressure, talent management challenges, and a changing regulatory landscape.  Carried Interest is a high-profile area for automation because it’s the most important private equity accounting task, the distribution of investment profits between investors and their manager, yet the operating standard for most firms is highly inefficient and risk-prone because of the dependency on Excel, manual processes, bespoke systems, data exchange, and key-person operational risk. View Whitepaper

A New Digital Era for Global Fund Administrators

This paper focuses on the importance and increasing role of private equity fund administrator’s and their back office in a continued high-performing and fiercely competitive industry, the challenges they face that are limiting their scale and execution and why waterfall distribution and data digitalization is so imperative to their back-office transformation and achieving their growth strategy. View Whitepaper

For Institutional Investors: Reach Your Expected Returns through Private Equity Carried Interest & Fee Verification

Net inflows from institutional investors in the private capital market in 2021 reached record levels with approximately $940 billion in fundraising and over $1.2 trillion in transaction volume. With 2022 on pace for another stellar performance year and continued enthusiasm, investors are entrusting investment managers with billions to invest across the various sectors in private equity. As a reward for their investment services and performance, asset managers negotiate fund terms, typically “two and twenty”, where the investor pays a management fee of 2% of their total asset value commitment and 20% of of any profits in the form of carried interest through the life of the fund. View Whitepaper