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Cybersecurity specialist Trend Micro Incorporated has launched a corporate venture fund to explore emerging technology markets. With an initial investment of USD100 million, this venture fund will allow Trend Micro to nurture a portfolio of startups that are incubating ideas and living at the epicenter of hyper growth markets, such as the Internet of Things (IoT).
According to Gartner estimates, 26 billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020.
Eva Chen, founder and chief executive officer for Trend Micro, says: “Trend Micro’s vision has always been to make the world safe for exchanging digital information. The explosion
Sanne has appointed Sean Murray as its new head of fund services for the EMEA region.
Based in Sanne’s Luxembourg office, Murray will take responsibility for the development of the company’s fund services offering, working with all of the Alternative Asset product area divisions in which Sanne specialise. Murray has joined the firm from Orangefield in Luxembourg, where he was managing director and a member of the global alternative investments management board. He also sat on the board and management team of Vistra Luxembourg after Orangefield began a merger with Vistra Group in June 2016.
Martin Schnaier, Sanne’s managing director
Luxembourg is one of the world’s leading onshore domiciles where, over the last 30 years, it has become the default option for managers wishing to establish UCITS funds. It is, by size, the world’s second largest fund centre after the US, and, from a funds expertise perspective, offers managers everything they need; not just for UCITS funds but also unregulated or regulated alternative fund structures under AIFMD.
Through February 2017, total Assets under Management (AuM) for Luxembourg funds had risen 13.6 per cent year-on-year to EUR3.86 trillion, according to the latest statistics by the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry.
MPL Management (Luxembourg) SA is a third-party `Super Management Company’ providing fund governance, operational support and oversight to both UCITS funds and AIFs. It is part of MPL Group, founded by William Jones in 2006, who has, over the past 26 years, helped set up more than 100 funds in his career.
In 2008, Jones decided upon Luxembourg as his preferred European base for directorship services. At the time, he had no specific interest in setting up a management company.
“The premise I operate from – and why I refer to MPL as the `anti-ManCo’ ManCo – is that the
When setting up as a new hedge fund manager, one of the most important relationships to establish is that of the prime broker. With banks facing regulatory pressures in the form of Basel 3, many are re-appraising their client book to ensure that they are getting a suitable return on investment for the balance sheet they provide. Consequently, the first point for start-ups to focus on is to articulate what they will be doing with the fund they are planning to launch.
“They should have a well developed outline of the investment strategy, investment process and the type of portfolio
Online alternative investment platform Crowdmatrix is now providing investors with access to high growth private technology companies through the Plaza Ventures Fund IV venture capital fund.
Traditionally, becoming an investor in a venture capital fund requires a six-figure minimum buy in; however, Crowdmatrix’s platform enables accredited investors to invest much smaller amounts to diversify their portfolios into private equity.
Plaza Ventures has a disciplined investment system focused on private technology companies requiring growth stage funding. Plaza Ventures was launched in 2009 by Plazacorp, one of Toronto’s largest and most respected condo developers. Plaza Ventures is currently raising its fourth
Sustainability solutions provider South Pole Group has sold its subsidiary Climate Neutral Investments (CNI) to Institutional Shareholder Services Inc (ISS), a provider of end-to-end corporate governance and responsible investment solutions to the financial community.
Back in 2010, South Pole Group was one of the frontrunners in calculating carbon emissions of investment portfolios through its subsidiary CNI. What started as a novelty for the financial industry soon caught the attention of large investors globally: CNI established the world’s largest database of corporate climate change data and pioneered the leading, standardised investment carbon emission screening tools, resulting in the successful screening of
Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking (SG CIB) has completed a programme to combine its execution teams, adapting to increasing client demand for fully integrated electronic and high-touch trading services across asset classes.
In the final stage of this integration, the investment bank’s high-touch cash equity team has moved to join the Global Execution Services (GES) team within Societe Generale Prime Services.
Francois Banneville (pictured), Head of Global Execution Services, now oversees the expanded Global Execution Services team with Howard Sherman reporting into him as Head of High-Touch Cash Equity, Andy Willis as Head of Exchange Traded Derivatives and
Investment Metrics, a provider of performance measurement, investment analytics, risk attribution, market intelligence and reporting software to the investment management industry, has secured a significant equity investment from Resurgens Technology Partners and HarbourVest Partners.
The new partnership will enable Investment Metrics to make continued investments in its existing solutions and to support its growth and market expansion globally.
Investment Metrics provides a full suite of performance analytics and reporting solutions to institutional consultants, plan sponsors, asset managers and private wealth advisors. Built by institutional investment consultants, the company’s products and services are utilised by industry leaders across asset allocators
Abacus Group, a provider of hosted cloud IT solutions for alternative asset funds, has enhanced its Abacus Client Portal, which gives asset managers greater control of and transparency into their AbacusFLEX cloud services.
The enhancements include two new modules giving unprecedented transparency into managed services provided by Abacus; real-time, on-demand charts, and enhanced visibility into services associated with each user account. The Portal enables Abacus clients to routinely monitor the inventory of Abacus services they are using for security, compliance or billing purposes as well as manage their data storage costs.
“With these enhancements to the Abacus Client Portal,
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