Focusing on bank-owned administrators, nobody knows the precise reasons as to why investment banks have been vacating the hedge fund administration space other than the banks themselves. One possible explanation is that the integrated model they have been running for

In a report published by eVestment last March (Alternative Fund Administrator Survey 2014), 95 per cent of respondents answered `yes' when asked if mergers and acquisitions were expected to play a role in the hedge fund administration over the next

U.S. Bancorp Fund Services LLC (USBFS) is finalising two significant integrations: AIS Fund Administration, which it acquired in 2012; and Dublin-based Quintillion Ltd, acquired in 2013. The two transactions combined added approximately USD43 billion in AuA to their existing business

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