By Chris Kundro, Senior Vice President, Head of Wells Fargo Global Fund Services – There should be little surprise regarding the on-going trend of bank-owned hedge fund administration businesses being sold or put up for sale. There should be even
BNY Mellon is a prominent investment company in the financial industry. It has a market capitalisation of USD45 billion and is one of the world’s largest investment managers with USD1.7 trillion in AUM. More specifically, BNY Mellon is best known
There are plenty of push and pull factors influencing hedge fund administrators but whilst there are those who are getting distracted by M&A activity, one administrator that is taking advantage of the situation to win new business is Opus Fund
According to Mark Hedderman (pictured), CEO of Custom House Fund Services, the hedge fund administration industry needs a moment to reflect and think long and hard about what the preferred model to conduct hedge fund administration should be. It’s time to
According to a report produced last August by PwC entitled ‘Hedge Fund Administration – The quest for profitable growth’, there have been 27 HFA acquisitions since 2006, with 11 of those targets running USD20 billion or more in AuA. As
Maples Fund Services is celebrating a decade of ‘excellence and innovation’ as the firm marks the tenth anniversary of its formation in the Cayman Islands in 2005. Maples Fund Services – a division of MaplesFS – now provides fund administration and
Maitland, the global advisory and fund services firm, has been voted Best European Hedge Fund Administrator at the Hedgeweek Awards for 2015, held in London last week. Maitland offers independent third-party fund administration globally across all fund types and investment
Opus Fund Services has been voted the Best North American Hedge Fund Administrator by readers of Hedgeweek, one of the hedge fund industry’s leading publications. Hedgeweek canvassed the views of readers, to assess the best hedge fund performers and service
Derek Adler (pictured) ACSI is a director and founder member of International Financial Administration Group (‘Ifina’), which has now been around for 17 years providing fund administration services to small and emerging fund managers as well as large institutional clients.
Linedata has launched Linedata Optima, a suite of business process management (BPM) tools designed for fund accounting and administration and which will run across Linedata’s suite of fund servicing solutions. BPM tools are key in an era where increasing emphasis
