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When Augentius was established in 2002 it was the only business in London providing outsourced fund administration to the UK general partner community. PE managers had no choice other than to do their own fund administration and build their own in-house back-office teams.
Much has changed since that time. Augentius has grown, on average 20 per cent year-on-year, and has expanded its business across the world, to become one of the largest global private equity and real estate administrators. Regulatory developments have certainly played an important role in its growth, with AIFMD in particular prompting PE groups to seek out
eFront, a technology provider to alternative investment professionals, and PitchBook, a data provider for the private and public equity markets, have formed a strategic partnership to integrate PitchBook data within the recently announced eFront Insight solution.
Leveraging PitchBook’s data feed solution, eFront clients can now flexibly access deep fund-level information, empowering Limited Partners (LPs) and General Partners (GPs) to gauge private market performance relative to peer groups for PE and VC strategies, while also allowing LPs to refine asset allocation strategies.
Additionally, eFront will also integrate performance measurement data and analysis from PitchBook Benchmarks into eFront Insight. Recently released,
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) are to collaborate and support innovative firms through each other’s financial technology (FinTech) initiatives – LabCFTC and FCA Innovate.
“The FCA’s Project Innovate is the gold standard for thoughtful regulatory engagement with emerging technological innovation,” says CFTC Chairman J Christopher Giancarlo (pictured). Therefore, I am delighted to join Andrew Bailey in this arrangement to demonstrate our cross-Atlantic commitment to facilitating market-enhancing innovation and sharing best practices in FinTech engagement. This is the first FinTech innovation arrangement for the CFTC with a non-US counterpart. We believe that
COSIMO Ventures, an investment firm with offices in Boston and Dublin, has committed USD3 million for a seed investment in Oneiro Ltd, a new developer of technology innovations in blockchain and cryptocurrency.
The investment is one of the largest for a cryptocurrency company established in the United Kingdom. Oneiro will have part of its core technology development team based in Dublin, and is establishing its operating headquarters in Boston. This trans-Atlantic strategy reflects COSIMO Ventures’ unique expertise in supporting collaboration and new-company growth between the UK/Ireland and the United States. COSIMO is committed to partnering with promising early stage deep
Investment funds can now take advantage of a new limited partnership regime following the passing of the Limited Partnership Act in the British Virgin Islands (BVI).
The Act is designed to provide all the typical benefits of limiting liability, as well as a number of unique features.
Over recent years, limited partnerships have become a preferred structure for investment funds and are frequently used as a vehicle for private equity funds and joint ventures. This is because it enables investors who do not want to play an active role in managing the fund to limit their liability. Instead, the
With private equity enjoying a surge in interest among institutional investors keen to seek out longer-term yield away from traditional asset classes, the opportunities for fund administrators to provide outsourced services are compelling.
UMB Fund Services, and other fund administrators, are seeking ways to tap in to the market and encourage more PERE managers to outsource some of their in-house functions, without fear of losing control of their processes or data, and without concern that the administrator in question cannot provide adequate customisation.
As Jill Calton (pictured), SVP and Director of Alternative Investment Operations confirms, over the past 12 months,
Over the last few years, arguably since the introduction of the AIFM Directive in Europe, there has been a definitive trend among PERE fund managers to push their internal accounting and reporting processes to more specialist outsourced providers.
This has played to the advantage of fund administration groups such as SANNE, a leading provider of alternative asset and corporate administration services with more than EUR235 billion in AuA, supporting in excess of 1,000 real estate structures and funds and approximately 500 private equity structures and funds.
“I think that trend has been pushed from institutional investors who are requiring more
It seems institutional investors cannot get enough of private equity. Last year, global PE funds raised USD453 billion, surpassing the previous record of USD414 billion raised in 2007, according to the last figures released by Preqin.
As management groups grow, along with their AUM (Apollo Group alone raised USD24.6 billion for their ninth vintage, the largest PE fund on record), the level of operational complexity grows in tandem. This is prompting general partners to decide whether to continue with in-house fund accounting and reporting, or partner with an external fund administrator.
Given the vast sums of money flooding in, it
When Augentius first opened its doors in 2002, it was the only business in London providing outsourced fund administration to the UK general partner community. There were administrators in Jersey and Guernsey but nobody in mainland UK.
Consequently, the UK GP community had no choice other than to do their own fund administration and build their own in-house back-office teams.
Much has changed since that time. Augentius has grown, on average, 20 per cent year-on-year to become one of the largest global private equity and real estate administrators, and has, in many ways, been leading from the front as PE
Crédit Agricole, through its private equity funds group, is one of the leaders in financing, depositary and fund administration services in Europe for PERE and Infra funds. Its various entities are involved in all stages of the lifecycle of the funds.
CACEIS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the CA Group, is the European leader in depositary banking and fund administration. For several years it has been operating a dedicated “PERES” (Private Equity, Real Estate and Securitisation) business line, employing more than 250 people across Europe.
Today, CACEIS acts as depositary or fund administrator for more than 2,000 Private Equity, Infrastructure, Real
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