Roundtable: Investment Accounting Under Pressure: What’s Breaking and What Comes Next?

Investment Accounting Under Pressure: What’s Breaking and What Comes Next?, bringing together senior industry peers for an open and candid exchange.

In collaboration with The IA, Engine, and Fundguard.

This roundtable will be an interactive, around-the-table discussion focused on the real pressures facing investment accounting teams today and practical paths forward. Topics for discussion will include immediate pain points such as fragmented systems and data, reconciliation overload, manual processes, NAV timing, confidence in outputs, and the widening gap between oversight expectations and operational reality.

We will also explore barriers to change, including legacy architecture and technical debt, disconnected books of record, and the complexity of service-provider models. From there, the conversation will turn to the target state: improved visibility across processes, automated reconciliation and exception handling, stronger control and resilience, better integration across public and private asset structures, elimination of manual workarounds, and scalable architectures that can support increasing complexity.

The session will conclude with closing reflections and key takeaways, capturing practical insights from the discussion.

Cocktails and canapés will be served following the roundtable.

Agenda items

1. Open Discussion Around the Table
   Immediate pain points: fragmented systems and data / reconciliation overload / manual work / NAV timing and confidence in outputs / gaps between oversight expectations and operational reality.
2. Exploring Barriers to Change
   Legacy architecture and technical debt / disconnected books of record / service-provider complexity
3. From Pain Points to Target State
   Visibility across the process / automated reconciliation and exception handling / control and resilience / integration of public and private asset structures / elimination of manual workarounds / scalable architecture despite complexity
4. Closing reflections and key takeaways

We look forward to your participation in another lively discussion and debate!
Cocktails and canapes to follow the roundtable.

Senior leaders and deputies across Operations, Technology, Middle Office, and Fund Accounting within asset owners, asset managers, and service providers. This also includes transformation-focused roles—such as Heads of Transformation and Innovation—driving strategic change across the industry.

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