Banks, securities investors and hedge funds enjoy access to many powerful and well developed financial services software solutions. But private equity and real estate funds aren’t so lucky.

Citco is always improving its suite of regulatory, operational and reporting tools for clients.

The Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) is an EU directive that will place hedge funds, private equity and other alternative investment firms in a regulated framework, in order to monitor and regulate their activity.

As operations become more complex, private equity and real estate investors are seeing the advantages of outsourcing. First movers among Europe’s private equity (PE) and real estate (RE) investment firms are moving to outsource administration.