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UBS Fund Services has implemented SunGard’s Investran Insight to provide investment managers and investors with interactive reporting, advanced analytics, and data visualisation across its private equity value chain.
SunGard’s Investran Insight delivers a customisable and user-friendly portal experience that integrates seamlessly with the UBS client web portal, UBS Fund Services Online. Through Investran Insight, UBS clients and their limited partners (LPs) will have access to a secure, interactive reporting experience with detailed information available on investors, funds and underlying portfolio companies.
UBS Fund Services also uses SunGard’s Investran, which provides relationship management, reporting and partnership accounting functionality, and also integrates
HarbourVest Global Private Equity (HVPE) is planning to move its listing on the Specialist Fund Market to the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in early September 2015.
In order to clear the way for a Main Market listing, HVPE needs to ensure that US share ownership is below 50%. The Company believes that the US shareholder percentage is now below this level.
HVPE seeks to provide shareholders with superior, long-term capital growth while avoiding undue risk thanks to its diversification. HVPE currently gives investors exposure to 723 private equity funds and partnerships, including many of the industry’s
iLEVEL has been selected by European private equity firm HgCapital to support the optimisation of their portfolio data management and reporting processes.
HgCapital has assets under management of over GBP5 billion, serving over 100 highly regarded institutional investors, including private and public pension funds, endowments, insurance companies and fund of funds. A staff of more than 100 people in investment offices in London and Munch manage three investment funds.
Amanda Good, Head of the Portfolio Projects team at HgCapital, says: “iLEVEL will streamline our reporting process, enabling us to create reports faster and automate many of the tasks that previously
Private equity firm OpenGate Capital has completed the sale of Kotkamills Oy, to MB Funds, an independent Finnish private equity firm focused on acquisitions in the Nordic market.
Kotkamills, located in Kotka, Finland, is a manufacturer of specialty papers and wood-based products. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Acquired from Stora Enso in July of 2010, Kotkamills represents one of the most complex carve-out and transitions for OpenGate Capital to date. At acquisition, OpenGate launched its operations plan to consolidate Kotkamills’ five legal entities into a single business and establish entirely new IT, HR, treasury, finance, procurement, sales and logistics processes,
Atlas Holdings has completed the sale of Olympic Panel Products to Swanson Group Manufacturing LLC, a Pacific Northwest forest products company.
Located in Shelton, Washington, Olympic Panel is a subsidiary of New Wood Resources, and is the largest overlay plywood manufacturer in North America.
"With our lease expiring next year, we needed to make a strategic, long-term decision and concluded that this transaction is the right step at this time," says Kurt Liebich, CEO of New Wood Resources, which owns Olympic Panel. "While Swanson’s new facility in Springfield will eventually be the place where Olympic’s products are made, nothing with
Intralinks Holdings has launched Intralinks Dealmanager which is aiming to improve corporate development teams’ capacity and ability to evaluate deals properly by giving them a centralised place to manage deal processes, assign tasks, and report on deal progress.
For decades, corporate development professionals have had to rely on manual procedures and traditional, disparate tools such as spreadsheets, Microsoft Word documents, email, and multiple shared drives to manage portfolios of complex transactions. Not only has the process been cumbersome, it has also introduced a high degree of data security risk.
“Corporate development practices have been long overdue for an overhaul,”
Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial advisor to SSP Limited (SSP) on its sale to UK private equity firm LDC for GBP207 million.
SSP, a Hellman & Friedman portfolio company, is a specialist provider of insurer policy administration systems, insurance policy distribution platforms and broker management systems to the insurance industry. As part of its offering, SSP provides highly innovative data services, such as fraud detection and telematics, to help insurers better assess risks.
This transaction demonstrates Arma Partners’ continued strength in Financial Technology.
Carey Olsen has advised Ardel Holdings Limited on the sale of Ardel Trust Company (Guernsey) Limited to Equiom Group.
Ardel, previously known as Bachmann, was established in 1974 to provide specialist trust and corporate services to private and corporate clients and has, over the years, firmly established itself as one of the largest independent fiduciary services companies in the Channel Islands.
Equiom is an independent trust and corporate services provider with offices in the Isle of Man, Jersey, Malta and Hong Kong. The company first established a Channel Islands office in 2009 and this acquisition supports its objective to increase
European crowdfunding platform FundedByMe has launched a bitcoin pilot programme designed to assess client interest in paying using the digital currency. This test will take 45 days.
“We see that among our investors, a great many of them are early-adopters. We also know that bitcoin users are familiar with new inventions at an early stage. That’s why we thought that we may offer both groups something interesting,” says Daniel Daboczy, CEO and cofounder of FundedByMe.
The bitcoin pilot project has started with the launch of an equity-crowdfunding campaign for Safello, a bitcoin trading platform. Safello will also transfer bitcoin payments
MUGC Lux Management, the management company of Mitsubishi UFJ Global Custody, has implemented Linedata AIFMD Regulatory Reporting.
Currently, MUGC Lux management manages around 185 alternative investment funds (Cayman trusts and Luxemburgish structures). Therefore, it is the second largest Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) in Luxembourg, representing 10% of the Alternative Investment Assets under Management in Luxembourg in 2014. MUGC LM approach is to provide one stop shop solution in combination with MUGC to its clients.
The asset management industry continues to face enhanced complexities through the introduction of sophisticated investments, complex instruments and strategies, exposure and collateral management and
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