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PEFOX, a private equity secondaries advisor headquartered in London, has released the second generation of its PEFOX Library software.
The Library was first launched in early 2016 and provides investors with access to a database of current and historic secondaries pricing data on one hundred major private funds globally. This includes funds managed by groups such as Blackstone, Carlyle and TPG as well as smaller, regional managers.
The latest version of the software includes the largest known secondaries transaction database, with over 10,000 confirmed trades from 1998, alongside fund performance data on over 3,300 private equity funds globally.
Just a decade ago, the cyber threat landscape was far less pronounced, but thanks to significant advances in IT, mobile technology and digital platforms, the threat of cybercrime has grown exponentially and poses risks across the global industry and for national critical infrastructure (power stations, hospitals, dams, financial services).
As managers in the financial services industry increasingly adopt digital technologies, they increase the number of attack surfaces and weakness points within their networks. As a fund manager introduces a new counterparty into their network, the exact increase in risk is unknown but it may likely be substantial.
“Unless you are
Research Affiliates has launched a new version of Asset Allocation Interactive, an online investor tool that provides investment information and expected return data across more than 130 assets.
The site features newly added alternative asset classes including real estate, hedge funds, and private equity. The site also includes 11 model portfolios – encompassing expected and historical returns and risk, tracking error, CAPE ratios, inflation expectations, yield curves, GDP growth rates, commodity term structures, and more.
Acknowledging the popularity of the tool outside the United States, results are now available in four additional major currencies: euro, British pound, Japanese yen,
Independent credit provider InPark Square Capital (Park Square) has gone live on IHS Markit’s order management and portfolio modelling system, thinkFolio.
The implementation delivers operational efficiencies for Park Square’s front and middle office functions, with thinkFolio seamlessly integrating with the firm’s other IHS Markit loan offerings, providing end-to-end connectivity and workflows.
Park Square is using thinkFolio for portfolio modelling and construction, cash management, compliance and automation of the trading and trade approval processes. thinkFolio facilitates straight-through-processing to WSO, IHS Markit’s loan portfolio software, providing a single platform for position management, full portfolio NAV and reporting.
Park Square has
Electra Private Equity has completed the appointment of G10 Capital, part of Lawson Conner Group, to serve as the Company’s AIFM, responsible for ensuring compliance with the AIFM Directive.
Electra joins a strong suite of private equity managers on the Lawson Conner platform including four additional global mandates thus far in 2017.
“The award of the Electra mandate is in line with our focus on private equity investment vehicles and our experience in the listed space. We are very excited for phase II of the Electra story and look forward to working towards this with the team throughout 2017”,
Peer-to-peer (P2P) business lending platform ArchOver, has become the first UK lender to partner with Escalate, a fixed-cost commercial dispute resolution service for SMBs.
The partnership will enhance ArchOver’s ability to provide secure loans to the SME market, helping borrowers to bring in disputed payments and enhancing security for lenders as a result.
Escalate’s rapid no-win no-fee dispute resolution will enable ArchOver to recover any contested assets used as security for loans over the ArchOver platform, further enhancing its market-leading secured lending services. Escalate will ensure that lenders on the platform are protected by ensuring contested debts are paid
Koger has added fundraising and deal flow modules to its Pentas platform for private equity firms. Pentas streamlines and automates the administration of PE funds and works with all fund structures, including pure private equity funds, master feeder and fund of funds.
“With these modules, we provide private equity firms with a comprehensive platform that automates both the back and front office. The fundraising and deal flow modules are optional add-ons to our Pentas software that we can easily turn on as clients want them,” says Ras Sipko, Koger Chief Operating Officer.
Pentas provides PE fund managers with increased
The Borletti Group has selected Societe Generale Securities Services’ (SGSS) external dealing desk I-DEAL to provide outsourced trader oirder routing and execution services.
With I-DEAL, the Borletti Group’s asset management activities will benefit throughout the entire trading value chain from order placement, routing and execution, to dedicated reporting services (operational, regulatory, client …) and market middle office services. These activities are carried out in strict compliance with the regulatory requirements in effect, notably best execution applicable under the MiFID II directive, and help reduce operational risk with straight-through-processing.
Outsourcing the trade order execution process enables the Borletti Group
Hedgeweek Q&A with Mark Coriaty, Chief Strategy Officer, Eze Castle Integration
HW: Talk about the advancement and evolution of cloud services in recent years and how we’ve ended up where we are.
MC: If you step back and look at the landscape over the last four or five years, we have seen a lot of changes both on the technology front, as well as within the financial markets. Whether the result of fund raising challenges or increasing regulatory demands, the landscape for alternative fund managers has changed significantly.
We’ve therefore had to adapt to the market and this includes three
Increasingly, the search for alpha is pushing asset managers into the furthest corners of financial markets. New asset classes, new instruments and new geographies are conspiring to place huge pressure on pre-existing operating models as managers struggle to cope with the volume of investment data. Whereas previously the front office operated independently from the middle and back office, all three are converging to handle the data management task.
This, in short, is leading to a new investment management operating model; one that is more integrated, front to back. And is, in turn, being supported by service providers. Fund administrators, who
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