Onshore vs offshore fund administration

Do you know where your fund administrator, or the one you're about to appoint, actually does the work? Where their team sits and how much they do by hand affect how quickly your LPs get answers.

Many administrators moved processing offshore to improve their margins, and the savings rarely reached their clients' fees. Their clients got slower answers, more errors, and a team in a different time zone. AI agents now handle much of that repetitive work, so more volume no longer means more people.

This guide compares onshore and offshore fund administration side by side, and gives you 12 questions to ask any administrator.

What's inside

• Why the service model matters. Why administrators moved work offshore, who paid the price, and how AI changed the unit economics.
• How long an offshore answer takes. One question your CFO sends at 2:00 pm ET, followed through both service models.
• How the two models compare. Your contact, working hours, turnaround, handoffs, diligence, and change of control, side by side, plus the red flags in any proposal.
• 12 questions to ask any administrator. Where the work is done, who does it, how fast you get answers, and how your data is overseen, with what a strong answer sounds like.

Ask us all 12 questions.

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