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The Future of SPV Administration: What LPs Will Expect

SPVs

Fund Administration

The Future of SPV Administration: What LPs Will Expect

Look-through visibility, AI you can audit, on-demand reporting and Asia-first structures. Where SPV administration is heading and how to prepare.

September 20, 2026

8 min

Sunil Chaulagain

Chief Executive Officer

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How to Fix SPV Administration: A Practical Playbook

SPVs

Fund Administration

How to Fix SPV Administration: A Practical Playbook

A step-by-step fix for the 7 biggest SPV administration problems, with questions to ask any provider and how aama.io handles each one.

September 18, 2026

9 min

Sunil Chaulagain

7 SPV Administration Problems Every Manager Hits

SPVs

Fund Administration

7 SPV Administration Problems Every Manager Hits

Late K-1s, stacked fees, LPs who can’t see what they own. The 7 SPV administration problems managers face, why they happen, and what to watch for.

September 16, 2026

9 min

Sunil Chaulagain

SPV Administration: Best Practices for Setting Up and Managing a Single-Asset Vehicle

SPVs

Fund Administration

SPV Administration: Best Practices for Setting Up and Managing a Single-Asset Vehicle

The deal terms are the easy part. Raising the full amount you promised a founder, handling an oversubscribed round without a refund headache, and producing a member’s tax statement a year later — that is where SPVs are actually won or lost.

September 5, 2026

8 min

Luis Lim

SPVs

Venture Capital

The Swiss Army Knife of Venture: Why VCs and Founders Use SPVs

An SPV isn’t a smaller fund — it’s a different instrument entirely: one deal, one cap table, one set of economics. Here is why VCs reach for one instead of the main fund, what it actually costs, and what an LP is signing up for when they commit.

September 3, 2026

7 min

Luis Lim

VCC Sub-Fund Segregation & the 13O/13U Annual Renewal Pack

Family Offices

Singapore

VCC Sub-Fund Segregation & the 13O/13U Annual Renewal Pack

A VCC umbrella promises sub-funds with no cross-liability — a promise your ledger has to enforce, not just your legal documents. And whatever evidence you gather over the year eventually has to become one renewal pack per fund, or per sub-fund, for MAS. Two fund-accounting problems that compound at renewal time.

August 9, 2026

8 min

Prashant Chaulagain

Family Offices

Singapore

The UBO Register & the 2-Business-Day ACRA Deadline: What Singapore Family Offices Miss

Every other 13O/13U condition gives you a quarter or a year to sort it out. The UBO register gives you two business days from the moment a beneficial owner changes — and most family offices only find out about the deadline after they have already missed it.

August 8, 2026

7 min

Luis Lim

Family Offices

Singapore

CDR & LBS: The Two Thresholds Singapore Family Offices Must Track All Year

The Capital Deployment Requirement and Local Business Spending are the two 13O/13U conditions that move every day the portfolio trades and every month a bill gets paid. Track them once a year and you find out you failed months after it mattered.

August 7, 2026

8 min

Luis Lim

Family Offices

Singapore

Singapore Family Office Compliance in 2026: CDR, LBS, UBO Register and VCC Sub-Fund Rules Explained

A Section 13O/13U exemption is not won once and forgotten — it is re-earned every year through five ongoing conditions, split across the portfolio desk, the company secretary and the fund accountant. Here is the map of all five, and where to go for the full detail on each.

August 6, 2026

6 min

Luis Lim

VCC

Singapore

How to Set Up a VCC in Singapore (2026): Structure, Cost and Timeline

A practical 2026 guide to the Singapore Variable Capital Company (VCC) — umbrella vs standalone structure, the service providers you must appoint, realistic set-up and annual costs, and how long incorporation actually takes.

June 9, 2026

8 min

Luis Lim

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