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Gemma Leddy, PKF

PKF Funds and Family Office launches in the UK and Ireland

Global accountancy network PKF has expanded its successful service for family offices and private funds in the UK and Ireland. The PKF Funds and Family Office service, which was launched in New York in 2011, has now extended its presence to London, Edinburgh and Dublin. The expansion gives PKF’s Family

Keith Parker, Link Asset Services

Fund governance changes loom large

By Keith Parker, Link Asset Services – The Irish funds industry had another bumper year with total assets for 2017 growing by EUR298 billion – a 16 per cent year-on-year increase – to a record high of EUR2.4 trillion1, a substantial figure and testament to the attractiveness of Ireland as

John Hynes, HedgeFacts

Reducing the middle- and back-office burden

Although most institutional investors are comfortable with the idea of fund managers outsourcing middle- and back-office functions while they focus on managing the investment strategy, they are taking great care and attention at the pre-allocation stage, as part of the ODD process. Whilst they understand that there are numerous cost

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Three quarters of alternative fund administrators expecting industry consolidation

A majority of alternative fund administration firms – 74 per cent – expect consolidation in the alts fund admin space, according to the just-released eVestment Alternative Fund Administration 2018 survey. This is up dramatically from the 47 per cent of survey respondents who expected consolidation in 2017’s survey.   And

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Guernsey sets sights on promoting global connections

As part of its new development strategy, Guernsey Finance has published a funds distribution strategy statement entitled ‘connecting to the parts of the world managers want to reach’. The strategy statement sets out the aim by which Guernsey intends to become the global jurisdictional platform supporting managers to reach global

Alven selects Ipreo’s private capital markets platform

Alven, an independent venture investment firm based in France, has selected Ipreo’s iLEVEL platform for the monitoring and management of its fast-growing portfolio.  iLEVEL has become widely-accepted as the platform of choice for private market investors globally, enhancing portfolio data integrity, streamlining operations, and elevating performance across the entire investment

Link Asset Services selects AltaReturn to boost private equity offering

Link Asset Services has selected AltaReturn as a technology partner for fund accounting and reporting services.  The solution will offer Private Equity clients streamlined processing, greater scalability and increased transparency – enabling both Link Asset Services and its clients to deliver consistent, sustainable and controlled growth while managing risk and

Liberum selects TeleWare for MiFID II compliance solution

Boutique investment bank Liberum Capital, is using TeleWare’s mobile communications recording technology to ensure teams across the bank are compliant with the record keeping requirements of the recently introduced MiFID II legislation as well as the forthcoming GDPR regulation. The revamped version of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, or MiFID II, is

Nittin Aggarwal, Beacon

Corporate governance awareness continues

The Beacon Group is an independent group of companies providing management, consulting, administration, accounting and other related services to offshore and domestic hedge funds and other international entities. It is licensed by the Bermuda Monetary Authority to provide corporate secretarial services, part of which involves offering advice to promoters and

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