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Northern Trust has launched a range of new client dashboards for Omnium, its middle- and back-office technology platform for alternative fund administration.
Designed to provide clients with greater transparency into workflows and metrics critical to efficient fund management, the web-based dashboards exemplify Northern Trust’s commitment to solutions that support alternative investment managers.
Omnium client dashboards feature a streamlined interface to enhance the user experience and are optimised for mobile devices to provide key decision makers with real-time, on-demand access to their portfolio information wherever they might be. Additional features include interactive data visualisation capabilities, readily accessible static reports and
ACA Compliance Group (ACA) has appointed Carlo di Florio as Global Chief Services Officer (CSO).
Di Fiori will be instrumental in defining and executing the vision for ACA’s governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) service offerings. His responsibilities will include oversight, management, and strategic growth of ACA’s global regulatory compliance, cybersecurity and risk, AML and financial crimes, and performance practices. He also will focus on enhancing ACA’s infrastructure and technology for servicing, managing, and delivering its quality service-based offerings.
Di Fiori joins ACA from FINRA where he served as Chief Risk & Strategy Officer and as Co-Chair of the FINRA360
Gresham House, a specialist alternative asset manager, has appointed Mike Woolley and Andy Gibb as Head of Wholesale Retail Funds and Sales Director, respectively.
Woolley joins from BNP Paribas Asset Management where he had been Head of External Distribution for the UK since February 2015. With two decades of sales and distribution experience in the UK, Mike was also Head of UK Sales at EFG Asset Management, and prior to that was at Neptune Investment Management, Prudential and Standard Life. He will be responsible for developing the Company’s wholesale distribution strategy, with a strong focus on growing the award-winning LF
Maher joins from Campbell Lutyens, a leading private capital adviser focused on fund placement and secondary advisory services, where he has served as General Counsel since 2017. Previously, he was a partner in the private funds group at Kirkland & Ellis International LLP.
Maher’s in-house experience, strong skill set and standing in the private funds community places him at the very top of his practice. He is well known in the London private fundraising and secondary market for acting in relation to both fund formation and secondary transactions across a number of asset classes, including buyout, venture capital, infrastructure, debt
BTG Advisory, the boutique advisory arm of Begbies Traynor Group that provides commercial, strategic and partner-led advice to companies, investors, lenders and other stakeholders, has appointed four new partners to its London Canary Wharf office.
The new BTG Advisory partners include two high profile external appointments, with Anthony Brennan joining from CameronBarney LLP and Paul Davies from Menzies, as well as the senior internal promotions of both Andrew Dalton and Sorca Hunt, effective immediately.
These appointments are central to BTG Advisory’s growth strategy and its commitment to further expanding its service delivery while broadening its client offering into new
Managers of Cayman funds are being encouraged to act now to ensure they fully comply with the new obligations of the Cayman Islands Data Protection Law, 2017 scheduled to come into effect on 30 September 2019.
The new law will enact a framework of rights and duties to regulate the processing of individuals’ personal data broadly based on the same internationally recognised privacy principles that form the basis for other data protection laws globally.
Ogier partner James Heinicke says that the law will regulate the processing of all personal data in the Cayman Islands and will affect any entity
Fiona Southall has joined Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management as “Senior Specialist Sales – Private Markets”. Based in the Paris office, she reports to Gad Amar, Deputy CEO at Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management, who is also responsible for business development.
Southall (pictured) is in charge of promoting the Private Market product range managed by the Edmond de Rothschild Group and offered to international investors: Private Equity, Real Estate, and Infrastructure Debt.
Southall has over 15 years of professional experience. She graduated from Strathclyde University Business School (Glasgow) and is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) charterholder. She started
Small business investment house IW Capital has launched a new EIS Portfolio Service, allowing access to investment into the UK’s of high-growth SMEs, through the Enterprise Investment Scheme (IES).
The service will cater to both advisers and private investors with a simple transparent fee structure providing investors with the ability to claim tax relief on the full investment amount. Launched after considerable demand from IFAs, the service will allow easier routes to investment in a fast growing sector of the UK economy for clients looking to diversify their portfolios with high-growth private companies.
IW Capital is an established firm in the EIS space dealing with growing businesses since 2010 and
Lenses.io, a specialist in DataOps, has raised USD7.5 million in Series A funding from international VC firm, 83North, joining the company’s previous investor, Marathon Venture Capital. Laurel Bowden, Partner at 83North led the funding round and joins Lenses’ board of directors.
The company plans to use the funding to accelerate product development and scale operations in Europe and the US to meet growing international demand. Lenses launched its flagship DataOps product in early 2018 and has enjoyed rapid customer adoption, including multiple Fortune 500 companies such as Babylon Health, Daimler, Zopa, Playtika and SAS Software.
Real-time data analysis has
Aviva Investors has appointed Ed Dixon to the newly created role of Head of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), Real Assets.
Based in London, Dicon joined Aviva Investors on September 16 and reports to Melanie Collett, Head of Asset Management, Real Estate. He will be responsible for the ESG programme for Aviva Investors’ GBP45 billion Real Assets platform, encompassing Real Estate, Infrastructure and Private Debt. He will work closely with colleagues across the platform and the Global Responsible Investment team to lead the firm’s ESG strategy in Real Assets across investment, development and asset management.
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