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Grant Thornton ABAX Investment Services, based in Luxembourg, has selected PFS‐PAXUS for the administration of its funds services.
Carlo Reding (pictured), partner of Grant Thornton ABAX Investment Services, says: “After a thorough evaluation process we identified that PFS‐PAXUS was going to be a great fit for our business. The breadth of functionality available within the system is very extensive and will put us in an ideal position to administer almost any fund structure that we might be presented with.”
Incorporated in 2009, Grant Thornton ABAX Investment Services is regulated by the CSSF and provides services such as transfer agent,
The Private Equity Women Investor Network (PEWIN), a networking organisation for senior women in private equity with chapters in the US, Europe, Africa and Asia, has expanded to Nigeria.
It follows the formal launch of PEWIN Africa earlier in the year in South Africa.
The invitation-only members organisation, which was founded in 2007 in the US, has been expanding internationally, opening London and Hong Kong chapters in 2015 in its first international expansion move. Future expansion on the continent will include Cote d’Ivoire and Kenya.
On 10 November 2016, PEWIN hosted an Africa Institutional Investor Roundtable in Lagos,
CEPRES has launched PE.Analyzer3, a fundamental benchmarking platform for private capital markets.
With PE.Analyzer3 investors (LPs) and fund managers (GPs) exchange investment data in a secure environment.
Using technical and fundamental analysis, they benchmark funds, deals and operating companies for three-dimensional investment decisions.
PE.Analyzer3 launches together with benchmark data on 2,614 funds, 35,962 deals and USD2.9 trillion worth of PE-backed companies.
Taking input from leading LPs, PE.Analyzer3 introduces expert investment screening sheets. Fund and deal performance, PMEs (Public Market Equivalents), loss and recovery rates, return distributions, j-curve analysis and value creation are all calculated live for funds,
Sat here writing this article in one of London’s many coffee shops there are at least half a dozen others tapping away on their MacBooks. By 2020, it is estimated that 40 to 50 per cent of the global workforce will work for themselves, in a freelance or independent consultant capacity, collaborating with people on platforms to deliver a particular service or solution.
Welcome to the gig economy, or sharing economy, that has seemingly been defined overnight by the incredible success of Airbnb and Uber, the e-hailing company.
These two companies, in particular, have completely changed the natural order of
Abacus Group, a provider of hosted cloud IT solutions for alternative investment funds, has welcomed the launch of the UK’s new National CyberSecurity Strategy, which includes stepped up efforts to combat data breaches, identify theft, fraud and money laundering in the financial services sector.
Abacus says its services already meet or exceed these standards.
Abacus, which in October announced a major expansion of its services and the opening of a second data centre in London, provides cyber defences to its more than 400 clients in the alternative investment field globally.
Noting that the US Securities and Exchange Commission
Grand Coast Capital Group has selected SS&C's Precision LM loan servicing and accounting solution and SS&C's fund administration services.
Based in Hingham, Massachusetts, Grand Coast Capital Group is a national private-lending firm and real estate fund manager that provides creative financing to real estate investors, builders and developers.
SS&C will provide Grand Coast Capital with a single, cloud platform for commercial loan origination, servicing and accounting, integrated with SS&C's fund administration services and cloud-based fund services portal.
Grand Coast Capital Group investment managers, borrowers and investors will now have secure, 24/7 web access to summary reports, analytics and
C5 Capital, a technology investment firm focusing on the cyber security, data and cloud computing sectors, has acquired ITC Secure Networking for GBP24 million.
The acquisition marks the fund’s fourth investment following its investments in Metrasens, a UK based sensor company; Omada, a provider of identity and access management technology; and Balabit, a software company focusing on real-time user behaviour analytics for the identification of internal and external attackers.
ITC was established in 1995 by CEO Tom Millar and is headquartered in Docklands London. It provides organisations with assured IT and specialises in providing its NetSure360 managed infrastructure and security
By Fiona Le Poidevin (pictured), CEO, Channel Islands Securities Exchange (CISE) – International developments such as the EU’s Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) and the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) initiative are placing increased focus on the substance of investment structures.
Asset management groups are still dealing with the implications and in doing so, they should consider how they can demonstrate additional substance by listing on the Channel Islands Securities Exchange (CISE).
We offer a fully regulated marketplace from our offices in Guernsey and Jersey, which are within the European time zone but outside of the EU. Today,
CACEIS offers private equity fund managers bridge financing solutions that allow them to delay the process of collecting capital commitments from investors, thereby enhancing the internal rate of return of the fund.
In such an arrangement, CACEIS provides Equity Bridge Financing to the manager – essentially a guaranteed line of credit – whereby the financing arrangement is agreed not on the asset but on the uncalled capital commitment from high quality investors.
"In other words, it is financing on the liability side of the fund rather than the asset side of the fund," comments Nicolas Palate, Head of Private Equity and
At SS&C Advent, an independent unit of SS&C Technologies who collectively support more than 10,000 customers worldwide, there has been, according to Jesper Steiness (pictured), Director of Global Accounts, a clear growth of interest among fund managers and service providers to improve automation with respect to alternative portfolio accounting and reporting.
This is happening at a time when alternative fund managers are converging in terms of the products they offer, with hybrid fund structures becoming a more popular feature of the landscape. But given the complexity of the assets, and the movement of cash flows within these structures, both managers
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