EY (Ernst & Young) last year published an operational efficiency survey and in it, they found that 40 per cent of respondents had already outsourced their middle office functions (26 per cent), or planned to over the next two years
AMX, an open architecture marketplace for the buying and selling of asset management services, has launched Magnetar Capital (Magnetar) and Lomas Capital Management (Lomas) onto the platform. These additions bring AMX’s total offering to 17 funds – providing investors with
The Growth Stage has launched what it says is the world’s first funding platform for private growth companies to raise investment capital from regulated institutional investors. The company has signed up investors with over USD4 trillion of assets under management,
BB&T Securities has selected CAIS to bolster its range of alternative investment offerings and can now offer access to hedge funds, private equity and debt, real estate and other non-traditional investment strategies to its financial advisers. “BB&T Securities’s adoption of
Arquitos Capital (Arquitos) has become the first independently-run client of Willow Oak Asset Management’s (Willow Oak) fund management services (FMS) offering. Previously, Willow Oak has started or seeded other funds on its platform. Michael Bridge, chief executive officer for
KNEIP, a Luxembourg-based fund industry specialist, is launching a new digital service platform to the London market, allowing more transparency as well as greater efficiency in the funds industry. The new single layered platform manages the entire fund lifecycle from
KOGER is now offering a comprehensive end-to-end digital ecosystem for investor services with complete compliance, workflow and document management, and client web portal functionality. KOGER is primarily known in the industry for NTAS, its flagship transfer agency system that supports
The summer saw the launch of a new investment platform, AtomInvest, which is designed to democratise access to alternative investment funds across private equity, venture capital and hedge funds. Founder and CEO of AtomInvest Hemal Mehta explains that he has
LCJ Investments is to offer its discretionary-driven FX strategy on Hydra, Ketera Strategies’ managed account marketplace for macro, commodities and liquid equity hedge fund strategies. LCJ’s Macro Strategy is a discretionary, fundamentals-based, global macro program that expresses its views through
Steven Cameron, Pensions Director at Aegon, comments on the FCA’s Investment Platform Market Study Interim Report… We welcome the FCA’s largely positive Investment Platform Market Study findings and the proportionate and targeted set of remedies it is now considering. Platforms
