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Rocaton Investment Advisors has formed a partnership with SAF Platform, a New York City based financial technology firm to offer offer private capital and hedge fund research to institutional investors.
Potential clients include endowments, foundations, insurance companies, pension funds, family offices, and registered investment advisors.
"Rocaton is singularly focused on our clients' success, and a cornerstone of that success is objective investment research. Our experienced and dedicated team of research professionals analyse investment themes, managers and strategies to deliver a comprehensive evaluation of each opportunity," says Robin Pellish, CEO, Rocaton. “We see the growing need for high quality, unbiased investment
PraxisIFM Group, one of the largest independent financial services operations based in the Channel Islands, has listed on The International Stock Exchange (TISE).
The Guernsey-registered business, with assets under administration in excess of USD40 billion and revenues of more than GBP30 million, has around 300 staff across 10 jurisdictions.
Simon Thornton, PraxisIFM’s chief executive officer, says: “PraxisIFM is thrilled to announce its listing on TISE, which will broaden further the group’s profile internationally and, in particular, within our target markets.
“This listing will strengthen our position as an employer of choice, enhancing our ability to attract and retain
SEI has welcomed three new participants to Codify, the company’s new Regulation Technology (RegTech) incubator. Codify is the first London-based incubator designed solely for financial regulation technology developers.
The incubator provides participants with crucial business resources and development opportunities, including office space in SEI’s UK headquarters for a minimum of four months, providing access to SEI’s extensive in-house resources and exposing them to a number of financial services sectors.
Mentoring from both SEI employees and third-party experts across various disciplines is also part of the package. External mentors include Jason Boud of the RegTech Forum, executives from leading RegTech start-ups, and
For newly emerging investment firms or long-standing established ones, the choice to adopt a cloud-based architecture is becoming an easy one. Few firms have a business model where an in-house Comm. Room makes strategic or economic sense. And even for those who have the means to do so, managing and maintaining all levels of IT on-premise may not always make the most business sense.
Whether it’s the entirety of your technology environment or a few select applications, most firms find that it’s worth considering a cloud platform to leverage a predictable, scalable and feature-rich infrastructure. But when is the right
Ipes, a provider of outsourced services to private equity firms in Europe, is providing administration services to HgCapital and has supported its recent close of the HgCapital 8 Fund and, separately, a first and final close on The Mercury 2 Fund.
Both closing are at their respective hard capitalisations raising a total of GBP3.1 billion.
Both funds were significantly oversubscribed and received strong support from existing investors.
HgCapital is currently partnering in 30 investments across the larger buyout and Mercury funds, with examples including Visma, IRIS, JLA, Sovos Compliance and CogitalGroup.
Barry McClay, Ipes head of fund
Private equity fund administrator Gen II Fund Services has increased its assets under administration to in excess of USD150 billion.
Since its founding in 2009, Gen II has grown to become the industry's largest independent firm focused on private equity fund administration.
Norman Leben, managing principal of Gen II, says: "Our dedication to the highest standards of performance in our industry, an unrivalled track record of exceptional client service and our long term focus and dedication to the private equity fund administration have enabled us to reach this milestone. We thank our clients for their trust in us and our
CheckRecipient, a machine learning start-up that aims to end the problem of misaddressed emails, has raised USD2.7 million in a round co-led by Accel and LocalGlobe, with the participation of Winton Ventures, Amadeus Capital Partners and Crane.
Started in 2013 by three engineering graduates from Imperial College, CheckRecipient has developed an email security platform that uses machine learning to make sure sensitive or confidential data cannot be sent to the wrong individual.
CheckRecipient scans historical email data to understand conventional usage patterns and behaviours in companies’ email systems. Using machine learning allows CheckRecipient to spot anomalies and give users
Fintech company Koger has deployed its flagship NTAS platform for fund administration and compliance in the cloud.
NTAS is a share registry system that manages fund tracking, reporting and fee calculation.
More than 8,000 funds with USD2 trillion in assets are administered through NTAS, which is used by many of the largest funds, fund administrators and financial institutions.
The NTAS platform and its complementary product suite support all types of investment funds, including hedge funds, private equity, mutual funds, money market funds and pension funds.
“The migration of NTAS to the cloud is part of our ongoing
Alter Domus, a provider of fund and corporate services, has opened its second office in Ireland in Cork, creating 60 new jobs.
Alter Domus was established in Ireland in 2011 and in 2014 the firm acquired O'Donovan Stewart Corporate Services. The team was set up in Dublin to provide the full suite of corporate services with strong activity in aircraft leasing, private equity, real estate and debt.
James McEvoy, Alter Domus country executive Ireland, says: “Today, we are delighted to now be able to offer Fund Administration services specialising in private equity, real estate, infrastructure and debt and further,
By Kulvinder Gill – The technology treadmill is a tough place to be these days. Technology refresh cycles last only a mere three years, forcing firms to replace their infrastructures and make costly software and hardware upgrades on a too-frequent basis. And with hedge fund budgets tighter than ever, many firms cannot afford to stay on this path.
But the hedge fund technology treadmill is not a firm’s only option. Costly in-house, ‘traditional’ IT services have given way to more cost-effective outsourced IT and managed services that get firms off the treadmill and on a path to success.
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