Transaction Advisory Vs PE FoF to get to direct buy side PE

Currently in audit at Big4 (PE Fund of Fund. Fund of Fund seems to do less Co-investment deals than other shops, but does quite a bit of secondary offerings.

Goal is to get to direct buy side PE shop, but of course that will take a couple steps to get there. Clearly both of these options are better than staying in audit. The Fund of Fund seems like it would be a great opportunity to network (although at the analyst level not sure how much this will help) and get some experience in modeling. FDD would be a good place to be while networking into IB or some other role.

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I've spoken with a PE FOF and they made it very clear that it wasn't a good role to take if investing was what you wanted to do. The reason they were being so clear was because the vacancy was made by someone leaving prematurely because they misunderstood the role. Basically it was all performance analysis on the funds' investments. Perhaps this was a unique experience though.

 

Investment Analyst. Job Description:

Analyzing financial statements of private equity partnerships, including a review of partnership portfolio company valuations and cash flows • Preparing client reports and presentations • Assisting with special reporting, research, and due diligence projects on an ad hoc basis • Performing an initial quantitative and qualitative review of potential private equity fund investments • Conducting in-depth quantitative analysis of potential private equity fund investments

My background is audit of financial services, which is one of the reasons I was able to be considered for the position.

 
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I used to do Asia-Pacific PE (kind of like FoF). Now I do something else but happy to try and answer questions on that stuff.

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