Scale Smarter with ACA’s Investment Performance and Operations Support

Flexible, outsourced solutions built to meet investor and regulatory demands.

Today’s investment firms face mounting pressure to deliver accurate, timely, and defensible performance reporting—often with leaner teams and tighter deadlines. From navigating complex fund structures to meeting evolving regulatory and investor expectations, performance and operations teams are being asked to do more with less.

ACA’s Managed Performance Services provides a flexible, expert-led solution to help firms meet these challenges head-on. Whether you need full outsourcing, targeted support, or leadership-level guidance, our team of 80+ performance professionals delivers institutional-grade expertise tailored to your firm’s needs. We help firms calculate, validate, and present key investment metrics for client reporting, marketing materials, and due diligence processes. Our services bring clarity, consistency, and confidence to your performance data.

Whether you’re preparing for fundraising, responding to investor inquiries, or scaling your operations, ACA delivers the structure, expertise, and scalability to help you succeed.

Need help with investment performance and analytics calculations, Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®) compliance, or investor reporting? Let’s talk.

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What Do You Need Help With?

Our Managed Performance Services are designed to meet firms where they are—offering scalable support across the full performance lifecycle:

Outsourced Head of Performance

Gain strategic leadership and oversight for your investment performance program without adding headcount.

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GIPS® Standards Compliance Support

Build and maintain a GIPS compliant program that aligns with investor and regulatory expectations.

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Key Performance Task Outsourcing

Offload time-consuming tasks like performance calculations, composite updates, performance disclosures, and more.

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Private Fund Fundraising and Reporting Support

Align performance metrics with investor expectations, like Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) reporting standards, to support capital raising and due diligence.

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Not sure where to start?

Book a call with one of our specialists. They will guide you through the outsourced investment performance and data analytics services available and help you build a plan that fits your needs.

Optimize Your Investment Performance Practices With ACA

Looking to go a step further? Our Investment Performance Managed Services provide tailored guidance to help you refine your performance strategy, enhance internal processes, and stay ahead of evolving investor and regulatory expectations.

Whether you need day-to-day execution or high-level advisory, ACA brings the expertise to help you optimize every aspect of your investment performance program.

Why ACA?

ACA helps investment teams streamline performance operations without compromising accuracy, transparency, or compliance. Our Investment Performance and Operational Support services combine deep subject-matter expertise, regulatory insight, and operational precision to help you scale efficiently and meet expectations.

Reduce Internal Burden

Rely on a team that works within your systems to take on time-consuming tasks and free up internal capacity. 

Improve Consistency and Execution

Bring structure and follow-through to core activities with support that aligns with your program. 

Stay Ahead of Regulatory Demands

Tap into a team that monitors changing rules and expectations, so your program stays responsive and up-to-date. 

Performance Experts with Low Upfront Costs

Cut the cost of recruiting, onboarding, training, and retaining.

Large Peer Network

Extensive industry knowledge, regulatory expertise, and technical skills.

Let’s lighten the lift on your performance team. Talk to us about how ACA’s Investment Performance and Operational Support services can support your firm.

FAQs

Investment Performance and Operations Support

ACA can handle a wide range of tasks including internal rate of return (IRR) calculations, composite management, investor and fund-level reporting, GIPS standards compliance support, marketing and DDQ performance data, and detailed fee calculations. We also offer full outsourcing of the Head of Performance function.

Our team conducts detailed reviews of internal rate of return (IRR) methodologies, performance metrics, and disclosures to ensure alignment with GIPS standards and regulatory expectations. We also offer performance certifications and focused reviews to support compliant fundraising and marketing.

Managed Services provide hands-on execution and operational support for performance-related tasks. Advisory Services offer strategic guidance, policy development, and best practice consulting. Many clients benefit from a hybrid approach that combines both.

Yes. ACA is the global leader in GIPS standards compliance consulting and verification. We offer everything from feasibility studies and policy development to full outsourcing of GIPS compliance program management and annual verification.

We help firms build and validate performance track records, align reporting with ILPA and investor expectations, and ensure compliance with SEC and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) rules. Our services are especially valuable when fundraising through bank platforms or responding to due diligence requests.

ACA combines the industry’s largest team of GIPS standards professionals with deep regulatory expertise and hands-on managed services. Our integrated approach ensures both strategic oversight and day-to-day execution, tailored to your firm’s needs.

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