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Sandaire, an international multi-family office, has launched an enhanced private equity business – Sandaire Private Equity – which will aim to meet the diversifying needs of existing and prospective clients.
This launch supports Sandaire’s long-term growth strategy by broadening its offering to clients, and closely follows the launch of Sandaire Corporate Finance earlier this month.
Sandaire Private Equity will provide clients with the opportunity to invest in unquoted businesses across the spectrum of growth to buyout, through funds, co-investments, direct and underwriting investments.
James Fleming, Chief Executive of Sandaire, says: “Private Equity is a key component of the
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) is opening a new office in Washington, DC. The office, which opens this week, will support the association’s growing membership and government affairs work in the United States.
The DC location expands AIMA’s existing US footprint and complements the association’s regional headquarters in New York. It will allow AIMA to deepen relationships with local regulators and work collaboratively with other industry bodies on behalf of the alternative investment industry. The additional resources will also facilitate the expansion of local committees, peer networks other practical tools for members in the US.
Jiri Krol, Deputy CEO
BlackRock is to acquire 100 per cent of the equity interests in eFront, an end-to-end alternative investment management software and solutions provider, from private equity firm Bridgepoint and eFront employees, for USD1.3 billion in cash.
The combination of eFront with Aladdin, BlackRock’s investment operating platform used by more than 225 institutions around the world, will set a new standard in investment and risk management technology.
eFront, which serves more than 700 clients in 48 countries, is a comprehensive technology solution for managing the alternatives investment lifecycle, from due diligence and portfolio planning to performance and risk analysis, across a
MUFG Investor Services, the global asset servicing arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, has Implemented Anaplan for the use of carried interest modelling for its alternative investment clients with improved real-time planning and decision-making processes.
With the waterfall allocation methodology, MUFG Investor Services helps its clients move away from traditional, excel-based models to more modern processes that provide increased controls, accuracy and efficiency around inputting data, detailed calculation support for carried interest calculations, and the ability to create carried interest forecasting scenarios. The new tool enables MUFG to scale and centralise the process significantly, in addition to reducing the inconsistency
Eze Castle Integration has added new features to the Eze Client Portal allowing clients to visually explore and analyse data associated with their IT environment and operations and create interactive dashboards and reports.
By incorporating Microsoft Power BI business analytics into the platform, the Eze Client Portal is more valuable than ever. Clients can easily customise interactive dashboards and drill-down to explore and analyse data and information. Modern visualisation capabilities, such as word clouds, allow clients to easily identify trends within their service ticket activity and technology environments.
The newest features complement existing Eze Client Portal capabilities including creating and
Acuris, a BC Partners and GIC-backed provider of global data, intelligence, research and analysis, has acquired Blackpeak, an investigative research firm.
Co-founded by Jack Clode and Chris Leahy in 2011, Blackpeak has grown to become a premier provider of complex due diligence, research and investigation services, particularly in relation to capital markets, M&A and private equity. The team’s experience, strong brand and deep customer relationships have allowed Blackpeak to gain a market leadership position and expand internationally, all while generating consistent profitability.
Headquartered in Hong Kong, Blackpeak now operates from key financial and economic centers, including Singapore, Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing,
Oak Trust Group, Consortia and Kreston IOM, which between them have offices in Guernsey, the Isle of Man, Jersey, Malta and Mauritius – have come together to form Oak, a new private client, corporate services and fund administration group.
The new business, which is headquartered in Guernsey, employs 160 people across the five jurisdictions.
Stuart Platt-Ransom has been appointed the chief executive officer of Oak. Previously chief executive officer of the Legis Group, he has more than 25 years’ experience in the financial services sector.
Oak is backed by the Financial Services Opportunities Investment Fund, a Guernsey-based, International Stock Exchange
Fintech platform iCapital Network is to become exclusive feeder fund service provider for Morgan Stanley’s Wealth Management Alternative Investments Group, with responsibility for the oversight functions of the group’s alternative investment feeder fund assets.
The transaction was completed on 14 March 2019. The alternative investments feeder fund business transferring to iCapital is comprised of approximately 115 investment vehicles across a range of investment strategies. iCapitals proprietary end-to-end technology solution will be leveraged to streamline ongoing operations and administration services for the funds and provide support to advisors and their high-net-worth client base. Following this transaction, iCapital will service approximately USD40 billion
Online investment platform Seedrs has launched full customisation in its AutoInvest product allowing users to select their personal investment criteria with the product then building them a portfolio of early-stage private companies automatically.
First launched in July 2018, there have been over 4000 individual investments using AutoInvest in Beta mode, with 80 different companies who raised funds on Seedrs in the past seven months benefiting from the product. The product takes Seedrs another step closer to offering a full suite of innovative investment methods, accompanying its Secondary Market and its EIS100 Fund.
Until Seedrs launched AutoInvest, investments on equity
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
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