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Fund administration

Paul Kneen

Integrated platform brings order to chaos

Pacific Fund Systems is a global leader in supporting investment fund accounting and administration through its integrated share registry/fund accounting platform, PFS-PAXUS. With fund administrators under increasing pressure from AIFMs to provide a broader suite of regulatory reporting services – most notably Annex IV reporting under AIFMD – demand has

Cyril Delamere

UCITS and AIFMD platforms provide gateway into Europe

For EU and non-EU managers, the ability to choose between AIFMD or UCITS regimes to bring a regulated fund product to market with minimal fuss is a compelling one. With its unique business model, ML Capital has proven to the marketplace that there are many ways to scale the walls

James Williams, Hedgeweek

How to select the right outsourced AIFM in Europe

Two of the most important considerations for any hedge fund manager under AIFMD are deciding on who to appoint as an external AIFM (or "Management Company") and also who to appoint as a depositary; the latter of which is discussed later in this report.  As registered AIFMs, European hedge fund

Cyril Delamere

UCITS and AIFM provide EU gateway

For EU and non-EU managers, the ability to choose between AIFMD or UCITS regimes to bring a regulated fund product to market with minimal fuss is a compelling one. With its unique business model, ML Capital has proven to the marketplace that there are many ways to scale the walls of

MaplesFS celebrates a ‘decade of excellence’

Maples Fund Services is celebrating a decade of ‘excellence and innovation’ as the firm marks the tenth anniversary of its formation in the Cayman Islands in 2005. Maples Fund Services – a division of MaplesFS – now provides fund administration and accounting services to an international client base comprised of top

Derek Adler, IFINA

Championing the emerging manager

Derek Adler (pictured) ACSI is a director and founder member of International Financial Administration Group (‘Ifina’), which has now been around for 17 years providing fund administration services to small and emerging fund managers as well as large institutional clients. Over the last three years, Ifina has been successfully running

Jill Calton, UMB Fund Services

Growing traction in private equity funds space

Jill Calton (pictured) is a managing director of the Alternative Investment Services division at UMB Fund Services. Over the past 12 months, the firm, which currently administers just north of USD31bn in alternative investment assets, has seen increasing inflows into credit strategies and private equity funds; particularly the latter. “We have

SEI Holly Miller

Setting up the Middle Office: Part 1

SEI’s Holly Miller (pictured) and Ross Ellis explain the core tenets of establishing a successful middle office… A survey published by Deutsche Bank in September 2014, entitled From Alternatives to Mainstream Part Two, found that the US alternative mutual fund industry has experienced 38 per cent annualized growth since 2008.

Luxembourg

Fuchs & Associés Group launches Super ManCo

Fuchs & Associés Group has been granted authorisation by the CSSF for Fuchs Asset Management SA, its Luxembourg-based super management company (Super ManCo). Fuchs Asset Management SA, which was created on 10 June 2014, operates in accordance with Luxembourg’s laws on undertakings for collective investment schemes (UCITS) and the Alternative

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Carey Group becomes first non-Cayman CISK listing agent

Carey Group has become the first listing agent in the world not based in the Cayman Islands to become a Cayman Islands Stock Exchange (CSX) listing agent. Being based in the same time zone as London gives the Carey Group Guernsey team a significant advantage over all other CSX listing

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