The Private Capital Strategy Series

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As veterans in the field of private equity, we recognize the challenges and opportunities in today’s complex fund management environment. We know what keeps you up at night, because we’ve been there, too. We launched 4Pines Fund Services to capitalize on our team’s unmatched experience to solve the most pressing challenges in modern fund administration. In this podcast, we discuss the latest news, trends, and events in private equity to help you get ahead.

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August 22, 2024Episode 1629 min

The Private Capital Strategy Series Episode 16: How To Fix The Full Accounting Workflow At Your Firm

How do you make sure the day-to-day runs smoothly across your entire firm, and not just LP reporting? Offloading time-consuming back-office tasks to an experienced team of accountants and advisors helps. CFOs are concerned managing their firm’s accounting in-house increases overhead while providing limited return. So how do you outsource crucial but burdensome administrative tasks to experienced professionals? Matt Trinkaus walks us through the process and shows us when it works, and when it doesn’t.

July 17, 2024Episode 1530 min

The Private Capital Strategy Series Episode 15 – Two CFOs: The Realist’s Outsourcing Playbook

Celeste Barone and Mike Trinkaus have built careers cutting through the complexities of fund operations, outsourcing and strategy. Celeste is the former CFO of Commonfund, and Mike the former CFO of Portfolio Advisors. They were recently joined at 4Pines Fund Services by Mark Toby, former CFO of Auspex Group and Maximus Capital. This webcast is a practical live analysis of going from self-administered to outsourced in light of today’s realities. If you’re looking at when to make, or revisit decisions on outsourcing, what the most important catches and caveats are, and to update your notes on best practices from your peers, you will want to watch the webcast below. If there are topics you want to make sure Celeste and Mike tackle, please feel free to reach out to us.

March 13, 2024Episode 1431 min

The Private Capital Strategy Series Episode 14: How BV Investment Partners does operations

What do established private equity firms do differently to consistently achieve success? Listen to Jonathan Holmes, Managing Director, CFO and CCO of BV Investment Partners and Michael Trinkaus, CEO of 4Pines Fund Services, as they discuss how Johnathan deploys his more than 15 years of finance and accounting experience to enable BV’s operations and strategy.And yes, we also discuss co-sourcing.

July 19, 2023Episode 1332 min

The Private Capital Strategy Series Episode 13: Why co-sourcing is surging now

The term ‘co-sourcing’ is more than mere industry jargon. It signifies a pivotal strategy in private capital management. Listen in as industry veterans Mike Trinkaus, CEO of 4Pines, and James DiCostanzo, Global Head of Growth Equity Sales at Allvue Systems, shed light on co-sourcing’s growing prominence. They unpack its benefits, highlight potential stumbling blocks of delayed implementation, and show how to gain buy-in from the team.

June 21, 2023Episode 1230 min

The Private Capital Strategy Series Episode 12: Outsourcing and co-sourcing for the unknown

What is Joshua Cherry-Seto’s playbook for outsourcing in today’s environment? We discuss this with him in our most recent webcast below and ask Mike Trinkaus how co-sourcing does and doesn’t fit in that framework. Listen in as these two advocates for the private capital CFO tell us about the current environment as new SEC rules advance, a shortage of accountants continues, and new technologies start taking hold.

June 1, 2023Episode 1128 min

The Private Capital Strategy Series Episode 11: New ways to connect with institutional investors

Is the traditional networking milieu of drinks and steak being supplanted by more active engagements like sports and hikes?James Rulli of Old City Investment Partners brings to the table a refreshed playbook that delves into these cutting-edge approaches in GP-Institutional Investor connectivity. Paul Filanowski offers insight on this new connectivity culture, illuminating how it’s being redefined through both human interactions and digital mediums, and importantly, how these two elements are mutually influential. Watch the episode below to learn more.

April 12, 2023Episode 1030 min

The Private Capital Strategy Series Episode 10: Co-Sourcing

Counting on your fund administrator’s technology alone to insulate them from the industry-wide talent shortage may be only a temporary solution. More firms are crossing the “co-sourcing” chasm and separating their general ledger from their fund administrator to ensure less exposure to industry churn. In this episode of The Private Capital Strategy Series, Bob Chowaniec, COO at 4Pines, lays out the proven steps from real world experience for crossing that chasm before it gets too big.

July 13, 2022Episode 929 min

The Private Capital Strategy Series Episode 9: Habits of a Champion Team

How do you build a championship team that wins the World Series, and in the world of finance?Former Yankees Coach Dana Cavalea shares how he led the team’s strength, conditioning and performance program and helped win the World Championship in 2009, and was awarded the Nolan Ryan Award for the top strength & performance coach in Major League Baseball.Mike Trinkaus at 4Pines Fund Services and Coach Cavalea discuss how those lessons apply to private capital finance and winning in financial services as challenges and opportunities in the industry mount.

June 7, 2022Episode 823 min

The Private Capital Strategy Series Episode 8: Emergent managers demand better and more efficient operations

Listen in as Chris Valentine of Celeres Capital and Paul Filanowski discuss investing growth capital in overlooked markets with diverse founders, including the greatest opportunities and challenges, what the firm is doing to champion DEI and what that means for fund operations.

May 5, 2022Episode 728 min