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Pacific Fund systems (PFS), a privately-owned technology company, is now offering a ‘one-stop-shop’ software solution for the automation of the complete range of back office fund administration services, focusing on an alternatives market which accounts for approximately USD7 trillion in assets invested globally.
PFS’ core product is the PFS-PAXUS system; an established market leading product that supports wholesale fund administration and the administration of all types of open and closed ended traditional and alternative funds, including retail funds, hedge funds, and private equity investment vehicles.
PFS-PAXUS integrates all of the fund administration processes that are normally performed on multiple
Private equity LPs lack sophistication in areas such as negotiation, reporting and position monitoring, according to a new study by eFront.
The report, which canvassed the opinions of LPs ranging from high net worth individuals to major pension plans, finds that investors are falling short of industry best practice in several areas. In all, 179 investors from across the globe rated their approach to 10 private equity investment competencies, selecting from answers graded in terms of sophistication.
The weakest categories for LPs were: negotiation, where more than a third of LPs (35 per cent) do not attempt to seek
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) first statistical report on European Union (EU) Alternative Investment Funds (AIF) finds that the sector in 2017, as measured by Net Asset Value (NAV), amounted to EUR4.9 trillion, or nearly one third of the total EU fund industry.
The report is based on data from 26,378 AIFs, or 80 per cent of the market, and will be published annually.
Funds of Funds accounted for 16 per cent of the industry, followed by Real Estate (RE) Funds (11 per cent), Hedge Funds (5 per cent) and Private Equity Funds (4 per cent). The
SFW Capital Partners (SFW), a specialised private equity firm that invests in leading Information, Software, Industrial and Healthcare Technology companies, has made a strategic investment in Greenshades Software (Greenshades), in partnership with Greenshades’ co-founders, David Rosas and Matt Kane.
SFW’s principals have supported a number of highly regarded companies in the Information and Software sector, including DaySmart Software, Swiftpage, Gerson Lehrman Group, Devada, AGDATA, MD Buyline, IAG Research, and Telephia. With SFW’s strategic support and resources, Greenshades plans to make significant investments to expand its product portfolio, enhance its sales and marketing capabilities, access new markets, and meaningfully accelerate its
Duff & Phelps has appointed Tyrone Courtman as a Managing Director in the firm’s Restructuring Advisory practice.
Based in Birmingham, Courtman will focus on restructuring advisory for corporate clients based in the East Midlands.
Courtman is a Chartered Accountant, a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner. He joins Duff & Phelps from PKF Cooper Parry LLP, where he was the lead partner of the firm’s business restructuring, recovery and insolvency services practice.
Matt Ingram, Managing Director, Duff & Phelps, says: “I am pleased to welcome Tyrone to
JTC has been granted a depositary licence by Luxembourg’s Ministry of Finance and is now able to offer a full range of services to alternative investment funds (AIFs) domiciled in Luxembourg, including depositary of assets other than financial instruments.
With JTC having operated an Alternative Investment Fund Manager entity (AIFM) in Luxembourg since 2016, the new licence significantly strengthens its capabilities within the EU, enabling it to offer a holistic and comprehensive Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) compliant solution to private equity, real estate and other alternative managers.
The new licence also complements JTC’s non-EU solution, with the
JP Morgan Asset Management has added a new publication to its Market Insights Program; the 2019 Guide to Alternatives. Much like its sister publication, the Guide to the Markets, the Guide to Alternatives is designed to provide an objective analysis of the key themes impacting alternative asset classes.
The book delivers insight on macro topics such as fundraising and manager dispersion, while also diving into real estate, infrastructure & transport, private credit, private equity and hedge funds in detail.
“With expected returns from traditional asset classes under pressure, investors have been forced to look elsewhere in an effort to
UK venture capital firm Vala Capital expects to invest all the capital raised by the Vala EIS Portfolio before the end of this current tax year on 5 April.
This will grant investors income tax relief of 30 per cent of the investment value for the current tax year or allow them to carry it back to the previous tax year. Funds offering to deploy capital qualifying for EIS tax relief before 5 April are scarce this year after the Government closed down asset-backed EISs in March 2018.
Jasper Smith, Chairman of Vala Capital, says: “EIS tax relief is
StrongBlock, a Magnetic Capital incubated startup founded by four former technology executives from EOSIO-creator Block.one, has secured USD4 million in a seed funding round led byPangea Blockchain Fund and its limited partners including Copernicus Asset Management SA (Copernicus).
The raise will support the company’s plans to be the blockchain standard for enterprises, financial institutions, and governments. The seed round was led by Pangea Blockchain Fund and its limited partners including Copernicus Asset Management SA (Copernicus).
Unlike most enterprise blockchain projects to date that have failed due to inadequate blockchain protocols and inexperienced executives. StrongBlock’s founders, David Moss (Oracle, Edmunds.com),
SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust plc (LSE ticker: SEIT), managed by Sustainable Development Capital (SDCL), has acquired a 71 per cent interest in a high-quality Combined Heat and Power (CHP) portfolio of eight operating CHP projects on the east coast of the USA for a total cash consideration of USD5.0 million.
Six of these CHP projects are being acquired from a well-known US manufacturer and installer of CHP units and solutions. The remaining two projects are being contributed by a fund managed by a US subsidiary of SDCL, which will result in that fund owning the remaining 29 per cent
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