Horseshoe Fund Services: Best Offshore Administrator – Hedge fund managers are seeking fresh ideas to achieve position returns. This need has driven significant growth in private lending/specialty financing, including real estate loans, peer-to-peer lending and merchant cash advances. “While borrow/interest rates
UMB Fund Services: Best Administrator – Technology – As managers seek new ways to generate alpha for investors, they look for new and unique opportunities. As a result, funds will look to strong third-party partners who are committed to delivering the comprehensive
Castleton Commodities International (CCI), a global energy commodities trader, has selected OpenGamma’s analytics to optimise its margin requirements.With OpenGamma’s solution, CCI expects to reduce margin financing costs for its trading activity by evaluating all available clearing options across global exchanges
Leading global investor services group IQ-EQ has today announced plans to expand its Irish operations with the launch of a dedicated Funds business in Ireland. Read the full story at Private Equity Wire…
Greg Knapp has rejoined fund administrator Opus Fund Services as VP, Business Development. Based in Austin, Texas, Knapp has extensive experience in the fund administration space and has built very strong relationships in the fund services industry. He was previously with
The “private debt” bucket within the fund industry has seen tremendous growth, opportunity, and evolution over the last few years, with no signs of slowing down. The definition and composition of the private debt space has expanded in both breadth
UMB Fund Services has been retained to provide fund administration, accounting, transfer agency, distribution and custody services for the Hamilton Lane Private Assets Fund (PAF), which merged from a private to registered product to become the firm’s first US evergreen
Luxembourg remains a key hub of fund distribution. However, the complexity of the European regulation has seen a rise in managers setting up more parallel funds in other jurisdictions. This is done to accommodate non-EU investors, who may struggle with
Prescient Fund Services, a provider of platform and fund administration services, has surpassed EUR 1 billion in Alternative Investment Fund Manager assets under management surpassed EUR 1 billion in the third quarter of 2020.Read the full story at Private Equity
Fund administration provider Phoenix American has formed a new partnership with Pennsylvania-based life settlement company Lighthouse Life Capital. Phoenix American will fulfil the back-office operational needs of Lighthouse Life with its industry-leading investor services platform featuring the state-of-the-art STAR-XMS shareholder
