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SANNE has appointed Hannah Correll Jaeger as Head of Client Relationship Management – Americas, to support the company’s strategic growth.
In her new role, Jaeger (pictured), will build the SANNE brand in the Americas and represent SANNE’s full suite of global services. Jaeger is based in SANNE’s New York office, and is responsible for building and maintaining all client and intermediary relationship while overseeing business development, marketing, and sales.
Jaeger joins SANNE from Vistra Group (previously Orangefield) where she held the role of Director of Business Development. In her previous position, Jaeger focused on the alternatives investment industry,
Fund administration for the alternatives industry is approaching a tipping point, with mounting industry headwinds leading many fund managers to outsource middle-and-back office processes to achieve greater operational efficiency and scalability.
That’s according to Citco’s Spring Industry Spotlight, which identifies the most significant issues and trends within the asset services industry for the year ahead in the following sectors: private equity, tax, real estate, hedge funds and private debt.
Private Equity: The greatest growth over the past several years has been in real assets – primarily from private equity and real estate funds. While investor allocations to these asset
EQUI, a cryptocurrency-powered investment platform that opens up venture capital to a wider audience and provides high-tech innovators and entrepreneurs a new route to investment, has added investor Duncan MacInnes to its Advisory Board.
MacInnes has extensive business and investment experience having founded his first business in his teens, exiting in his early twenties. This experience enables him to identify promising early stage startups and make successful investments. He has been an early stage backer of some of the greatest technology success stories of our time, including Facebook and Deliveroo.
MacInnes has been brought in to compliment the skills
Fund managers face a multitude of pressures today, ranging from regulatory to investor demands for improved transparency and evidence that their data is being stored and secured to the highest standards.
This is a lot for PE groups to take on, who need to focus on the investment process without getting sidetracked having to manage technology risk. As such, demand for outsourced cloud solutions has strong momentum, with Eze Castle Integration very much at the forefront of this.
“We want to be sure that the technology being leveraged supports best-of-breed technology, both in the cloud as well as on-site,” explains
With over 1,500 employees in international locations, over 250 employees and 40 partners dedicated to the financial services practice, EisnerAmper LLP has the breadth to handle global engagements and provide comprehensive guidance and support to its roster of hedge fund clients.
EisnerAmper currently services over 1,300 hedge funds and 200 private equity/venture capital sponsors. Whomever the client, the firm always strives to speak their language and avoid using technical accounting jargon.
Nick Tsafos (pictured), Audit Partner in EisnerAmper’s New York office and Chairman of EisnerAmper Global, notes that the firm’s private equity clients saw a continued increase in their funds
When Augentius was established in 2002 it was the only business in London providing outsourced fund administration to the UK general partner community. PE managers had no choice other than to do their own fund administration and build their own in-house back-office teams.
Much has changed since that time. Augentius has grown, on average 20 per cent year-on-year, and has expanded its business across the world, to become one of the largest global private equity and real estate administrators. Regulatory developments have certainly played an important role in its growth, with AIFMD in particular prompting PE groups to seek out
Last year, Pantheon celebrated its 35th anniversary. It is testament to the drive and determination to evolve the business model in response to changing market dynamics that has helped Pantheon stand the test of time to become, arguably, one of the most experienced global private equity, infrastructure and real assets fund investors.
Consider the numbers: 450 investors; 245 staff across six global offices; USD37.3 billion of discretionary and non-discretionary AUM, including those limited to a reporting function (as of 30th September, 2017), with USD21.5 billion committed in PE primaries and USD11.1 billion in PE secondaries; USD2.4 billion in co-investment and
CEPRES is an online investment platform and can best be thought of as a global data network between GPs and LPs. The platform gives institutional investors a way to effectively benchmark private capital market investments, using technical and fundamental analysis to achieve a three dimensional view into their investments.
“We have approximately 1,000 LPs exchanging data about today 4,500 funds and it is strongly growing every month” says Dr Daniel Schmidt, CEO of CEPRES. “Based on that data network, which covers all private capital strategies, we offer tools for different use cases.
“Those use cases start with market research, where
2017 proved to be hugely successful for global private equity and despite rising valuations and increased levels of competition, the general feeling among PE groups is upbeat for 2018, confident that they can still deploy capital with effect.
As Preqin outlined in its recently published 2018 Global Private Equity and Venture Capital report, the headline numbers for 2017 were impressive.
A total of USD453 billion in aggregate capital was raised by 921 PE funds. This took total AUM within private equity to USD2.83 trillion.
95 per cent of investors felt that their PE investments met or exceeded expectations. More than
eFront, a technology provider to alternative investment professionals, and PitchBook, a data provider for the private and public equity markets, have formed a strategic partnership to integrate PitchBook data within the recently announced eFront Insight solution.
Leveraging PitchBook’s data feed solution, eFront clients can now flexibly access deep fund-level information, empowering Limited Partners (LPs) and General Partners (GPs) to gauge private market performance relative to peer groups for PE and VC strategies, while also allowing LPs to refine asset allocation strategies.
Additionally, eFront will also integrate performance measurement data and analysis from PitchBook Benchmarks into eFront Insight. Recently released,
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