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Fund administration

Peter Jakubicka, Circle Partners

Growth is driven by Incubator and Approved Funds

Circle Partners is an independent fund administrator with offices in the BVI, Cayman Islands, and across the EU, the Americas and Hong Kong.  "We've seen a lot of growth in new BVI fund vehicles over the last 12 months – both the Incubator Fund and the more popular Approved Fund,"

Veritable and Moelis AM launch Archean Capital Partners

Veritable and Moelis Asset Management have teamed up to launch Archean Capital Partners, which will provide new private equity portfolio managers with the initial capital, advice and infrastructure necessary to launch their own funds. Veritable is a wealth management firm with over USD13 billion of assets under management.    Moelis

Daniel Häfele, Acolin

Acolin Fund Services strengthens cooperation with Hugo Fund Services

From January 2017 two representatives of foreign collective investment schemes – Acolin Fund Services (Zurich) and Hugo Fund Services (Geneva) – will cooperate more closely in advising asset managers on cross-border fund distribution. While Hugo Fund Services has focused on alternative investment providers since it was founded in 2014, Acolin

Centaur’s private equity service secures major US client

Centaur’s newly-launched enhanced private equity service has won a major contract with a USD20 billion multi-strategy, multi-jurisdictional US headquartered private equity group. The win came about after a detailed Request for Proposal (RFP) process, highlighting three principal requirements: service consistency that the client was not receiving from their previous administrators,

Ipes supports Keen in first closing of EUR90 million fund

Ipes, a provider of outsourced services to private equity in Europe, is providing administration services to Keen Venture Partners, a new venture capital firm operating from London and Amsterdam, in the first closing of its inaugural Keen Venture Partners Fund. The fund had its first close at EUR90 million and

Scott Sommerville

Maples Fund Services extends fund admin to P2P sector

Maples Fund Services has extended its fund administration offering to the growing marketplace lending sector, which is synonymous with peer-to-peer (P2P) lending and encompasses a broader scope of lenders, including individuals and traditional financial intermediaries and institutions.  As increased regulation and tightening credit conditions at traditional banks force borrowers to

Carlo Reding, Grant Thornton ABAX Investment Services

Grant Thornton ABAX Investment Services selects PFS‐PAXUS fund admin software

Grant Thornton ABAX Investment Services, based in Luxembourg, has selected PFS‐PAXUS for the administration of its funds services. Carlo Reding (pictured), partner of Grant Thornton ABAX Investment Services, says: “After a thorough evaluation process we identified that PFS‐PAXUS was going to be a great fit for our business. The breadth

SSandC Globe Op Bill Stone

Grand Coast Capital selects SS&C for loan solution and fund admin

Grand Coast Capital Group has selected SS&C's Precision LM loan servicing and accounting solution and SS&C's fund administration services. Based in Hingham, Massachusetts, Grand Coast Capital Group is a national private-lending firm and real estate fund manager that provides creative financing to real estate investors, builders and developers.    SS&C

Jesper Steiness, SS&C Advent

Fintech helps automate alternative funds

At SS&C Advent, an independent unit of SS&C Technologies who collectively support more than 10,000 customers worldwide, there has been, according to Jesper Steiness (pictured), Director of Global Accounts, a clear growth of interest among fund managers and service providers to improve automation with respect to alternative portfolio accounting and

Christine Waldron, US Bancorp Fund Services

Cultural fit is key to long‑term success

The pace of consolidation within the hedge fund administration space shows no let-up, with MUFJ Investor Services, the asset servicing arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, having just announced its latest acquisition; Rydex Fund Services, a 1940-Act fund administration business formerly owned by Guggenheim Investments.  One of the reasons fuelling

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