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Exploring the CFO fund admin frustration
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Alice Murray
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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CFO frustration with fund administrators has been building for a while, but is it really about the tech? Alice sits down with Justin Partington (IQ-EQ) and Matthew Devine-Hill (Belasko) to unpack legacy systems, co-sourcing traps, where Claude and Copilot are actually being used today, and why smaller managers might be ahead of the big institutions on tokenisation.
- Why CFO frustration with tech is rarely really about the technology itself
- The trap of co-sourcing and bespoke, sub-scale system builds
- How IQ-EQ and Belasko are each building out their data infrastructure, from Investran, Yardi, Allvue and Paxus through to Snowflake, Kyriba and OneStream
- Where Claude and Copilot are already being used in fund admin, and where they're not
- The regulatory reality of rolling out AI across multiple jurisdictions
- Why smaller, newer managers might be further ahead on tokenisation and digital assets than the big institutional names
- The generational shift reshaping expectations of what "good tech" looks like
- What it would genuinely take for a CFO to bring fund administration in-house
- Whether GPs will ever be brave enough to give LPs direct access to their own data