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Family Office Networks has launched of an online technology platform that offers family offices access to alternative investment products.
The new Alternative Investments Platform can be accessed at FONALTS.com and is the first phase of Family Office Networks’ financial technology platform expansion.
The platform allows family offices to view, list and co-invest in investment opportunities that have been offered to a community of over 10,000 single and multi-family offices. It will include alternative investment products such as private equity, real estate, direct, sponsored and venture backed transactions. Family offices will utilise the new technology to simplify the investment process
Unigestion, a boutique asset manager that focuses on providing its clients with risk-managed investment solutions, has expanded its fund distribution network by joining the MFEX platform.
The new agreement means that all Unigestion’s Uni-Global SICAV sub funds and share classes are now listed on the MFEX platform, which offers 50,000 funds to investors in 30 countries globally.
The availability of the Unigestion SICAV fund range on the MFEX platform marks the latest step in the firm’s growth in the intermediary market space, following its registration with Allfunds Bank in March this year. Both of these agreements have further enhanced
Altegris, a provider of alternative investment strategies, has partnered with Artivest, a technology-driven alternative investments platform, to bring its investment capabilities to Registered Investment Advisers (RIAs), independent broker-dealers, family offices, private banks, and other financial advisors serving qualified high-net-worth investors.
The partnership launches Artivest’s capabilities to offer alternative solutions to Accredited Investors.
Through this partnership, which entails a transition of USD1 billion of Altegris’ assets and over 20 different fund strategies onto the Artivest digital platform, Altegris’ current and future financial advisors and clients will now be able to utilise streamlined, online tools for onboarding and executing subscriptions as
Technology innovation and evolution has had a profound effect on many jobs, perhaps most notably for a firm’s Chief Technology Officer. Once tasked with desktop support and server maintenance, these IT executives have seen their job descriptions change dramatically over the years. But that change doesn’t necessarily signal something negative.
This Private Equity CTO Survey asked these technology experts directly how they spend their time and what they view as the new and evolving role of the private equity CTO. Their answers highlight a transformative shift from technology troubleshooter to strategic thinker.
With the advent of outsourcing and the cloud, many
Dragos Inc, an industrial control system (ICS) cybersecurity company made up of industry experts with the vision of securing global industrial infrastructure, has secured USD10 million in Series A venture capital funding from co-lead investors Energy Impact Partners (EIP) and Allegis Capital, with additional support from DataTribe, a cybersecurity startup studio that initially funded Dragos.
The Series A round will be used to increase the company’s workforce to meet rising customer demand, generated in part through key partnerships with Deloitte, the global audit and financial advisory services firm, and CrowdStrike Inc, a leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection.
Dragos is
As your firm evaluates moving to the cloud – as most financial and investment firms today will inevitably do – your list of priorities will likely include:
Regulatory and investor impact
Migration plans and operational effects
Hardware disposal and infrastructure changes
But another critical business area your firm should put some thought into is the effect of the cloud movement on your internal IT department (assuming you have one). What exactly happens to a firm’s IT team once it moves operations into a cloud environment? Is there still value in maintaining an in-house staff?
The simple answer is ‘yes,’
Ipreo, a provider of workflow solutions and market intelligence to financial services and corporate professionals, has completed the first domestic fixed income new issue deal in Japan on IssueNet, the company’s fixed income syndicate connectivity software.
The transaction was done for hybrid bonds issued by Sekisui House, Ltd. The deal’s bookrunner was Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co, Ltd. (MUMSS), with co-lead managers Mizuho Securities Co, Ltd. and SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. IssueNet enabled the banks involved in the deal to work simultaneously in one orderbook, and for the issuer to have a real-time view into the book during the
If your firm hasn’t fallen prey to a security breach, you’re probably one of the lucky ones. But you also probably won’t be safe for long, as most firms, at some point in time, will encounter a cybersecurity incident. Cyber incidents today come in many forms, but whether a system compromise at the hands of an attacker or an access control breach resulting from a phishing scam, firms must have documented incident response policies in place to handle the aftermath.
With the threat of security incidents at all all-time high, we want to ensure our clients and partners have plans and
North American mergers and acquisitions specialist Robbinex is expanding its service offerings with the launch of COSATA in response to a changing M&A marketplace.
COSATA stands for Comprehensive Strategic Analysis of Transition Alternatives. When a business owner is interested in selling or transitioning their business, the COSATA approach takes them beyond a simple valuation of their current business to identify changes that will enhance its value, and considers alternatives to selling.
“We analyse hundreds of potential buyers for every business we help bring to market, and we’ve identified there isn’t a scarcity of buyers, but a rather a general
Finles Capital is anticipating oversubscription for the EUR100 million ICO of FundCoin, the first ever ICO backed by investments in a private equity fund.
The proceeds of the ICO will be used to invest in the Finles Lowestoft Equities Fund, a Fund managed by Finles Capital Management an independent fund management boutique operating since 1977. The ICO will open up a new class of cryptocurrencies backed by a high-performance asset class rather than a single company or currency. It thus provides investors with a more diversified way to invest in blockchain through a structure that was previously only accessible to
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