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Private equity major Apollo Global Management has chosen Anchorage Digital to provide custody services for its digital assets holdings.
As the USA’s first federally chartered digital asset bank, Anchorage expects to custody a significant portion of the alternative asset manager’s digital asset portfolio.
A segment from Apollo’s Adam Eling, the firm’s COO of digital assets said that the it was drawn to working with Anchorage by the company’s “commitment to operating under strict regulatory oversight, their strong emphasis on security and segregation of client assets, and their ease of use for asset managers to hold digital tokens”
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Novata, an ESG data management platform built for the private markets, is to provide ESG measurement and analysis support services for some of Ares Management’s direct lending strategies.
Nordbridge, an executive search firm for the private equity sector, has launched NordbridgePlus to provide clients, candidates and those in the sector with one-on-one coaching and advice.
The new service will include advisory sessions designed for individual career needs, diversity and inclusivity strategies, market benchmarking, in-depth career guidance, professional and leadership development, business transformation, organisational advisory support, assessment and development guidance, professional referencing, fund strategy and industry and networking events.
NordbridgePlus will be run jointly by Nordbridge CEO Sita Kolossa and Managing Director Jessica Beynon.
Broadridge Financial Solutions has launched a new end-to-end managed service solution to allow European asset managers to meeting their compliance obligations for the upcoming Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).
From 1 January, 2023, SFDR requires asset managers to consider and disclose in a consistent manner how ESG factors are adopted in their decision-making processes. For Articles 8 and 9 funds, this includes a Pre-contractual Disclosure (PCD), Periodic Disclosure (PD) and Website Disclosure (WD).
Additionally, starting 30 June, 2023, asset managers will also be required to produce a Principal Adverse Impact (PAI) statement to determine the impact of their investment
CEPRES has launched CEPRES Predictive Intelligence, an enhanced, future-oriented portfolio management suite based on CEPRES’s proven and backtested forecasting technology.
CEPRES Predictive Intelligence enables investors to analyse existing, or plan complex new, private markets portfolios by running stochastic forecasts on cash flows and stress testing portfolio compositions to optimise asset allocations for any market condition.
With increasing capital dedicated to illiquid private market strategies combined with today’s growing complexity of portfolios and market uncertainties, many institutional investors – pension plans, insurers and sovereign wealth funds – face difficulty planning future liquidity and managing increased risk management regulatory requirements. CEPRES Predictive
Broadridge has appointed Stephen Johnston as Managing Director, Client Delivery Operations for Broadridge Fund Communication Solutions (FCS). Johnston will be responsible for all of the client servicing operations of the Fund Communication Solutions business, with Service Leads as his direct reports, and will be supported by FCS’s teams that span Ireland, UK, India and Poland.
Ebury, one of Europe’s largest fintechs and a global provider of transaction payment solutions, has established a branch in Luxembourg, registered under CSSF regulations to support managers in the alternative investments sector.
Herakles Investment Partners, a US-based private equity investor, focused on investing in attractive upper mid-market sub-Saharan African companies both private and public, has appointed Apex Group to provide find administration services.
Fund administration is at the core of Apex Group’s single-source solution, which encompasses a wide range of services under one roof, this will enable Herakles to create efficiencies, reduce costs and improve controls by outsourcing the back-, middle- and front-office operational framework.
This announcement follows the recent expansion of Apex Group’s pioneering ESG Ratings & Advisory Services with the launch of a new diversity, equity, equality and inclusion
Singulier, a Franco-British strategy consulting firm, has launched Holis, a data analytics platform intended to deliver insights to private equity investors and drive more effective decision-making throughout the investment cycle.
In an environment where rising interest rates have made private equity firms more cautious and selective, Holis will help investors secure a deeper understanding of their targets and bulletproof their investment theses. It will also assist funds in monitoring the performance and improvement of their portfolio companies.
Holis mixes, analyses, and corrects multiple data sources to quickly and cost-effectively generate sound assumptions to build upon for general partners. The platform
Global law firm Goodwin has opened a new office in Singapore’s central business district, which will serve clients raising, deploying, and lending capital in the region and around the world. Singapore is Goodwin’s second location in Asia and the 15th office globally.
Private investment funds partner Greg Barclay chairs the new office, which initially includes private equity partner Abhishek Krishnan, counsel Ananth Lakshman and a team of associates. Goodwin’s Hong Kong-based lawyers also support the new office and the firm’s clients in Singapore and the wider region. Private investment funds partner Elyn Xing will spend significant time in Singapore over the
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