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JP Morgan Asset Management has added a new publication to its Market Insights Program; the 2019 Guide to Alternatives. Much like its sister publication, the Guide to the Markets, the Guide to Alternatives is designed to provide an objective analysis of the key themes impacting alternative asset classes.
The book delivers insight on macro topics such as fundraising and manager dispersion, while also diving into real estate, infrastructure & transport, private credit, private equity and hedge funds in detail.
“With expected returns from traditional asset classes under pressure, investors have been forced to look elsewhere in an effort to
StrongBlock, a Magnetic Capital incubated startup founded by four former technology executives from EOSIO-creator Block.one, has secured USD4 million in a seed funding round led byPangea Blockchain Fund and its limited partners including Copernicus Asset Management SA (Copernicus).
The raise will support the company’s plans to be the blockchain standard for enterprises, financial institutions, and governments. The seed round was led by Pangea Blockchain Fund and its limited partners including Copernicus Asset Management SA (Copernicus).
Unlike most enterprise blockchain projects to date that have failed due to inadequate blockchain protocols and inexperienced executives. StrongBlock’s founders, David Moss (Oracle, Edmunds.com),
Stable, a venture backed fintech aiming to disrupt the commodity price risk management (CPRM) industry, has launched a risk management platform which is initially focussed on food and farming businesses in over 15 countries around the world.
Stable has raised USD6 million in seed funding from Anthemis, Syngenta Ventures, Baloise and Ascot Underwriting.
Price volatility is a major risk to sellers and buyers, yet the current financial tools to deal with price risk are currently designed for financiers, rather than farmers. Farmers require a minimum of 2000 acres to justify a Futures account, but less than 1 per cent
Mirador, a provider of bespoke portfolio-performance reporting solutions for high net-worth families, family offices, and wealth management firms, has partnered with Canoe Intelligence to improve and simplify reporting on alternative investments by eliminating manual data entry.
Today’s wealth managers and family offices manage complex portfolios that often include scores of alternative investments such as hedge funds, private equity and venture capital. As a result, these firms are inundated with thousands of documents annually, containing 200,000 or more transaction, valuation and performance data points. Canoe’s technology automates the extraction and management of these data points and documents, allowing firms to refocus
CSC, a provider of business, legal, tax, and digital brand services, has selected FIS to manage third-party administration services for its private equity and real estate clients. CSC will be employing FIS Investran and FIS Data Exchange as part of the partnership.
Investran, an award-winning, integrated solution for fund accounting, and Data Exchange, an investor portal for analytics and reporting, support the entire investment lifecycle, and automate front-, middle-, and back-office processes for private equity and alternative investment firms. CSC is initially rolling out the solution in the Asia-Pacific Region and is expected to expand its use to other offices
Colonnade Financial Group (Colonnade) is expanding its asset management capabilities to family offices to meet the demand for active asset management as family offices continue to increase their allocation to private equity.
These services are consistent with the offerings that Colonnade provides to its institutional investor clients – management of direct private equity assets, fund management, fund restructuring and fund wind-down services.
This expansion follows on the recent completion by Colonnade Managing Partner, Dana LaForge, of his role as a Partner at Brera Capital Partners (Brera). LaForge joined Brera in 2006 to develop and implement a phased, structured monetisation
Estera, a provider of funds, corporate and trusts services, has selected eFront as its partner for its multi-million pound investment in a fund administration platform to support the ongoing growth of its global private equity fund administration business, which now represents about a third of global revenues.
Estera has a market-leading European funds capability, offering administration and fiduciary services both onshore and offshore. The consolidation of its current administration platforms into eFront, the world’s leading alternative investment management software and solutions provider, is the next step in Estera’s rapid expansion into the European funds market, which is anchored by a
Velocity Capital Advisors has launched a dedicated secure online self-service portal for investors in its portfolio of high-growth technology startup businesses, as well as for financial advisors.
The portal is designed to make it quick and easy for investors to manage and monitor the performance of their investments on desktop, laptop and mobile devices, anytime and anywhere.
Investors can check company valuations, view statements and check fees and charges. They can also keep track of cash positions and movements. The portal also enables investors to share documents and communicate securely.
Meanwhile, advisors can review their client portfolios, check
Financial services consulting firm Oyster Consulting (Bermuda) Ltd has appointed Ann Daniels to provide consulting services with an emphasis on AML/CFT and Risk Compliance.
Daniels (pictured) brings more than 15 years of experience in Regulatory Risk and Compliance in the financial services industry. Ann’s compliance and consulting roles with small firms, law firms, investment businesses honed her skills, including the development, implementation and oversight of Compliance programs. Daniels’ experience also includes the development and implementation of AML/CFT risk assessment policies, procedures, and training; automated monitoring systems; risk assessment methodologies; the implementation of standards and a program of oversight compliance professionals.
Symbiont, a financial technology company delivering enterprise blockchain solutions, is partnering with Templum, a technology company for the private markets to deliver smart securities.
Templum will leverage and embed Symbiont’s Assembly as the blockchain and smart contract technology for its regulated, end-to-end solutions for raising capital and secondary trading platform, Templum Markets.
“The technology infrastructure Symbiont has built is best in class,” says Christopher Pallotta (pictured), CEO and Co-Founder of Templum. “Symbiont and Templum share a common vision for modernising private markets. Forging a partnership to combine our innovations in the private markets is a natural next step and
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