Solutions
The private equity, private debt and real estate fund markets are growing strongly across the globe. Record amounts of assets are flowing into these asset classes as investors look to allocate to strategies which offer attractive returns in a global low interest rate environment.
Investors are able to avail of funds structured in a number of jurisdictions – in Europe and in North America or the Caribbean. Increasingly, though, European investors are showing a preference to invest in European structures. Funds continue to be established in the traditional jurisdictions of the Channel Islands and onshore UK, but increasingly funds are
Fund administrators are moving up the chain into middle office and portfolio management functions as they broaden their services to offer more holistic support to their asset management clients. The success of this is currently reliant on a strong human relationship between administrators and fund managers. However, as the alternatives industry moves to more standardisation, technology will play a greater role in helping fund administrators provide a superior service to their fund management clients.
“Historically, the fund administration business was very much about the back office. In the past few years, however, administrators have taken steps up the chain into
Industry players in Luxembourg are sharpening their need for outsourced IT solutions as they scale up their operations driven by regulatory demand and growth in the jurisdiction.
“Private equity, custody and fund administration firms in Luxembourg used to have relatively small offices, with few people and are therefore not used to having any local IT service. Historically, firms have been trying to manage this function out of their US, UK or Germany headquarters,” explains George Ralph pictured), managing director, RFA.
The need for economic substance in Luxembourg has led to more people moving there. As client teams grow in the
As the private capital markets develop further and regulation continues to increase, asset servicers shoulder growing reporting and supervisory burdens on behalf of their clients. As a result, an automated technology solution to manage the sheer volume of data needed to invest in this area can provide operational efficiency and also allow for more cost effective investment by limited partners (LPs).
“The demand for deep and more granular data is much higher today than it was 10 years ago,” says Dr Daniel Schmidt, CEO, CEPRES. “In the past it was possible to invest in private capital markets by just looking
No matter who you talk to, global private equity has enjoyed a period of enormous growth in the last few years and, in Luxembourg, this has proven to be a key factor as it has looked to drive interest, globally, in regulated private equity funds.
As the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) reported at the end of 2018, although the PE fund landscape is still dominated by funds of EUR100 million or less in AUM, the number of large PE funds (EUR500 million and above) has increased to represent over 4 per cent of the total, with the
Duet Group (Duet) has selected global single-source financial solutions provider, Apex Group Ltd. (Apex), to deliver full depositary and fund administration services for their liquid Africa strategies.
Duet is a global investment holding company, founded in 2002, and a controlling shareholder of multiple asset managers, including Duet Private Equity, Emerging Markets Investment Management, Duet Alternative Investments, Merit Capital, and the Group’s centralised service company Hill Street Limited. Since its inception, the firm has developed an established portfolio of products with liquid funds including Frontier Markets Equity, Multi-Strategy and Global Event Driven. The mandate is for Apex to provide full depositary
YAD Capital is be bringing its alternative credit portfolio to Fusion Foundation’s cryptofinance ecosystem.
Fusion is a non-profit organisation building the next generation infrastructure for decentralised global finance.
The borderless efficiency and fractionalisation of assets enabled by blockchain will broaden YAD’s reach to both underserved merchants in need of funding and to more investors globally.
YAD Capital was co-founded in 2017 by former Goldman Sachs Managing Director David Perez, and former private equity investor and Lehman Brothers investment banker Daniel Rubin.
Following the 2008 market crash, credit options for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) became severely restricted.
Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS), a business intelligence, data analytics, and research platform for corporate, academic and government institutions worldwide, has Preqin private equity data to its offerings.
As a part of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, WRDS enables comprehensive thought leadership, historical analysis, and insight into the latest innovations in research.
Preqin through WRDS provides private equity and venture capital data, giving WRDS researchers access to the industry’s most comprehensive source of information, including intelligence on hard-to-track indicators, private equity investors, deals and fund performance. It calculates dozens of granular benchmarks across different regions, industries
IMF Bentham Cayman Advisory Services (IMF) has appointed SS&C GlobeOp to administer its newly launched USD500 million closed-end fund which underwrites non-US disputes around the world.
IMF is a specialist in dispute resolution funding. As a current client, IMF appointed SS&C GlobeOp to provide fund administration, AML services and streamlined FATCA and CRS reporting.
“IMF began using SS&C for fund administration services in 2018. It was a natural progression to select SS&C again to administer our most recently launched USS500 million closed-end fund,” says Andrew Saker, Managing Director and CEO, IMF Bentham Limited.T “he company has demonstrated expertise in
Stableton Financial (Stableton), a European platform for Alternative Investments, and securitisation specialist GENTWO are entering into a strategic cooperation.
The goal of the cooperation between the two Swiss-based companies is to provide bankable and customised access to sophisticated alternative assets across liquid alternatives, private debt, private equity, and real estate. The particular focus is on underlyings which were previously not available to financial intermediaries and their clients due to the difficult access and non-bankable form. Current solutions include alternative equity, market-neutral strategies, managed futures, volatility and tail-hedge, alternative lending, value-added real estate, and selected startups for a broader audience.
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12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
