Accounting firms are adjusting their business strategies to tackle structural challenges created by staff shortages, which include growth, profitability, fee pressure and regulation. The steps being taken by firms across the industry vary and include recapitalizing their equity structure, expanding into new lines of business and embracing AI and technology. This report delves into how accounting clients are working with Convergence to support their efforts.

Convergence Solutions – We help you “do more with less” in several ways:

• Improve Efficiency - means lowering the unit costs
• Improve Fees - means increasing client profitability
• Grow Revenue - means increasing cross-selling and adding new clients
• Adding Capacity - means reducing non-billable hours for relevant staff

Learn more about our Audit industry services:

• Client Acquisition Support Services
• Client Acceptance Testing (CAT) Support Service
• Client Management Support Services
• Independence Support Services

A new technology that tests, scores, and benchmarks the accuracy, consistency, frequency, readability, understandability, and quality of disclosures in your Form ADV 1A. 

It leverages structured data and interrogates with AI-driven tools and techniques to help you:

• Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your compliance team
• Identify and manage compliance risk
• Fix problems in your regulatory filings you may not know existed
• Pre and post-investment operational due diligence monitoring of compliance culture
• Understand the quality of your filings and compare them to your peer group

As asset managers continue to cope with fee pressures and increased regulatory burdens and costs, read our research to discover how outsourcing to a broader group of TPAs is redefining the competitive landscape of the TPA industry.

• Convergence View - TPA Industry
• Market Values of Equities and Fixed Income
• Publicly Traded TPA Revenue Growth
• Global UMGs Advising Global Funds
• Global Funds and Assets
• Global Private Funds and Assets
• Global UMGs Advising Global Private Funds
• New Private Funds Issued
• Private Fund TPA Switches
• Outsourcing - Private Funds
• TPA Market Share
• TPA Acquisition Volume
• TPA Operational Risk of their UMG Clients

This annual report provides insights into key trends across financial services using a 1-year and 3-year trends in these key areas:

• New Private Fund launches by fund type
• New Private Fund Assets launched by Fund type
• Investment Advisors added and dropped
• Fund Administrators added and dropped, including outsourcing trends, switches and the distribution of new wins
• Fund Auditors added and dropped, including Switches and Distribution of New Wins
• Prime Brokers added and dropped, including Switches and Distribution of New Wins for Single, Hybrid and Multi PBs
• Custodians added and dropped, including Switches and Distribution of New Wins for Single, Hybrid and Multiple Custodians
• Marketing Firms added and dropped
• Industry productivity based on 4 different productivity analytics
• Hiring trends across private fund advisers - Total, Investment, and Non-Investment Staff
• ESG "sensitivity scores" of investment advisers
• Gender diversity trends in the asset management industry by C-Suite function
• Non-Investment risk scores of investment advisers across the asset management industry

Clients benefit from our league tables because they identify key trends developing within the market segments analyzed. Key companies in the industry are monitored and tracked while growth and competitive metrics are reviewed for each service provider.

League tables show the market share held by the Top 25 and all other service providers listed and are measured and published at the end of each month and over the past 12 rolling months.  League table data is measured and reported using the number of funds and dollar value of regulatory assets under management.

Administrator & Auditor League Tables are produced in the following versions:

• Global
• US
• Non-US
• Private Funds
• Public Funds

Custodian and Prime Broker League Tables are produced in the following versions:

• Global
• US
• Non-US
• Single Relationship
• Multi-Relationship

Analyzes the quality of an investment manager’s most recently filed Form ADV and identifies corrections that need to be made while comparing them to their filing peer group. The measurements are year-over-year.

Provides comprehensive contact information of all “C-Suite” personnel disclosed for all investment manager entities in our database

Provides quarterly insights into investor allocations to new and existing funds, for capital investing across different types of funds and investing entities.  The analysis includes technical analysis and a 1 and 3-year forecast trends for the following fund types:

• Hedge Funds
• PE Funds
• VC Funds
• RE Funds
• SAF
• Hybrid Funds
• Investing Entities

Analyzes the quality of  an investment managers most recently filed Form ADV, Form D and Form 13F. The measurements are year-over-year and are published with a 5-year of time series.

Convergence scores the accuracy, consistency and frequency of these filings using proprietary scoring techniques. We measure compliance stress by looking at the trend in “lower quality” filings across each type of filing and together as a group of filings.

Provides insights into SEC Enforcement actions taken against Advisers for wrongdoing.