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ALPS has launched the ALPS Interval Fund Platform, a structure built to support retail closed-end funds and interval funds.
The ALPS platform, which combines ALPS’ experience in servicing closed-end funds with DST’s shareholder record-keeping and distribution capabilities in the alternative space, was designed to provide a turnkey solution for alternative investment managers looking to launch '40-Act registered interval funds and other continuously offered closed-end funds.
In addition to a cost-effective suite of services provided by ALPS Fund Services and ALPS Distributors, funds launched on the ALPS Interval Trust Platform have access to services from leading law firms and auditors. The
iCapital Network, an online marketplace providing qualified investors and their advisors with access to private equity fund managers, has added Mercury Capital Advisors and Stanwich Advisors to its roster of fund placement agents.
These additions provide iCapital’s rapidly expanding base of registered members with access to Mercury’s and Stanwich’s networks of general partners and their funds.
iCapital Network serves as a conduit for registered investment advisors, wealth managers, family offices and high net worth qualified purchasers to get access to top private equity managers and their funds. The marketplace is aimed at satisfying the pent-up and growing demand for private
Venus Capital Management has launched the Venus India Structured Finance Fund, which invests in Venus India Asset-Finance Private Limited, a Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) registered with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
The NBFC provides direct loans to small and medium enterprises in India and their shareholders and promoters. This opportunity offers absolute returns that are uncorrelated to any indices and could be used as a risk reducer in investors’ portfolios.
The NBFC provides a medium, through which investors may participate in secured and unsecured lending to small and medium Indian companies and their shareholders and promoters. The objective is
The newly released 2015 Preqin Global Infrastructure Report features exclusive fund manager survey results, made available this week via a special complimentary report. The report provides insight into the future investment activity of infrastructure fund managers and their views on the current market.
Infrastructure fund managers appear to be bullish regarding the amount of capital they intend to commit to the asset class in the next 12 months, with 65% of managers surveyed by Preqin planning to deploy more capital in the asset class in 2015 than they did in 2014, and a considerable 27% planning to invest significantly
CameronTec Group has acquired Lasalletech, the US-based financial protocol operational solutions and professional services firm co-founded by current Senior Partner, Jim Northey.
Since 2006 Lasalletech has specialised in the provision of products and services for messaging and transaction processing to improve the quality of financial services in terms of efficiency, reliability and performance. Its wide range of products includes FIX Conductor and FIX Technician CTS, the industry leaders for fully automated onboarding, certification, and regression testing.
CameronTec Group CEO Anders Henriksson says the addition of Lasalletech is welcome news for the Group and the global electronic trading community: “Today’s announcement
Hedge fund managers have two options when looking to bring a regulated fund product to Europe. The first is to go the UCITS route, the second is to establish an AIF, under the much more recent AIFM Directive, which is a far less trodden path than the UCITS regime.
ML Capital has two platforms to offer a complete regulated fund solution. The Dublin-domiciled MontLake UCITS platform has been operating since October 2010 while the MontLake QIAIF platform was established last December.
“It really is the strategy that is driving managers down one route or the other. If the strategy is
Luxembourg-based Fuchs Asset Management is not your typical AIFM provider. Its heritage is firmly rooted in wealth management. Having now grown into a team exceeding 100 people, it took the decision to diversify its offering and set up an AIFMD-compliant management company, receiving its license from the CSSF last June.
“With the substance needed to run an AIF today, a lot of mid-sized managers are now thinking: are we going to take on the burden of running our own AIFM, or are we going to use a third party?
“We now have the size and scale to consider such an
“I was in Chicago recently. A German pension fund said they had a USD500m allocation in a Chicago-based fund. They wanted to know that they could continue having a relationship with the manager and they said that having the depositary guarantee (under AIFMD) was important to their end investors. They told the manager that they wanted to put their USD500m allocation into an EU-regulated fund.
“We now have four funds on our AIFM platform that have come as a result of that market sentiment among investors,” confirms Derek Delaney (pictured) of DMS Offshore Group.
Although still early days, the point
The AIFM Directive may not be universally welcome but with greater focus being applied to compliance and operational risk oversight within the fund management industry, it is at least ensuring a new breed of higher quality fund manager; which for investors is good news.
“On the one hand AIFMD raises the threshold for new managers, but on the other hand once you’re AIFMD-compliant it makes things much easier from a capital raising perspective. The reason we exist is to help managers overcome that threshold and make the transition from a pre-AIFMD local framework to a pan-European standard,” comments Gerhard Grueter
Cordium, one of the industry’s leading regulatory and compliance firms, has devised a new offering for the European market to help managers overcome the marketing challenges of AIFMD.
Entitled the Cordium Total AIFM Solution (CTAS), the objective is to establish a fully functioning AIFM in Malta on behalf of the managers to support their plans to launch AIFMD-compliant funds.
Managers currently have two choices under the directive: to either operate their own AIFM and take on the management company responsibility, or to use a hosted AIFM solution. Where CTAS differs is that the manager retains full ownership of
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