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During 2018 UMB Fund Services continued to see growth in liquid alternatives and was able to further solidify its position as a leading administrator for registered alternative products. Over the course of the year the firm successfully partnered with clients to bring to the marketplace complex and innovative registered products, such as unlisted closed-end funds (also known as interval or tender-offer funds), as interest in these products continues to grow.
As a well-established asset servicing business, UMB Fund Services allows clients to benefit from the financial strength and service breadth of a large financial services organisation, while taking advantage of
The market volatility which re-emerged in 2018 has played out well for hedge funds, due to their ability to be more nimble. In this environment, SS&C GlobeOp has met the demands of the sector by providing a holistic technology platform that meets present and future needs as fund managers look to make their internal operations more efficient and robust.
Ken Fullerton (pictured), Managing Director and Head of SS&C GlobeOp’s Hedge Fund Administration business, says: “2018 was a very successful year for SS&C GlobeOp. We have been able to expand our capabilities and solutions across all fund types and structures. These capabilities
As asset managers continue broaden their investment ranges and allocate more to alternative and esoteric asset classes, Geneva by SS&C Advent has been ready and present to meet the demand these developments are creating.
Will Broadway (pictured), Sales Manager for the European alternatives market at SS&C Advent says: “Our team should be proud of their efforts being recognised with this award. Particularly for the development of Geneva over the last 18 months that have made it the system of choice for fund managers running private credit and debt strategies, an area of the market we have seen balloon.
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Strong client relationships sit at the core of law firm Sadis & Goldberg. Founded in 1997, the firm is comprised of senior attorneys who demonstrate vast levels of training and proven track records of professionalism, skill and diligence.
Partner Ron Geffner (pictured) says a key element of the firm’s success is the team’s ability to listen to their clients and understand their needs. “Our greatest triumph is investing in our client relationships by listening to each individual and taking a holistic approach,” he says. In a world where cost cutting continues to bite at the heels of many financial institutions, Sadis
Client needs are the keystone of the way RFA does business. Managing Director George Ralph explains how the firm designs solutions at the point of engagement with the client, rather than packaging or pushing products which may not always be fit for purpose.
“We are agnostic in our approach to solution design. In practical terms, this means we’re not pushing public or private cloud, its about what works best for the client,” says Ralph (pictured). The firm celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2019 and its development and growth has always been led by the needs of the sector. “We are
Pillar Capital Management (Pillar) was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Bermuda. The firm manages open-ended Bermuda incorporated funds invested in the global property catastrophe risk market.
The senior management team at Pillar, headed up by CEO and CIO, Stephen Velotti (pictured), has an average of 25 years’ experience in the reinsurance marketplace.
Pillar Capital is focused on providing alpha to investors through the reinsurance space. It aims to provide an attractive yield for investors while managing the risk it takes to achieve its returns.
Discussing the ILS market in 2018, Velotti notes that 2018 was the second year
The ability to deliver compelling alpha to hedge fund investors gets ever harder but those who bring a disciplined, resilient approach to their investment strategies, and stick to their convictions, stand out from the crowd. And what a crowd it is, with more than 10,000 hedge funds in the marketplace.
With more data and analytical tools available to investors, they have more capacity than ever before to interrogate their investments and determine exactly how, and to what extent, hedge fund managers are delivering a true source of alpha. Those who do can expect to curry favour with investors, who despite
Last year Opus Fund Services successfully rolled out its automated NAV calculation system called JET. The firm started building JET in 2017 but 2018 saw the system go live and CEO Robin Bedford believes it has the potential to change the industry forever.
“JET reduces NAVs processing times by over 90 per cent, removing people from the process, results in significant cost savings, and reduces the risk of human error,” says Bedford (pictured), “Since its introduction, tens of thousands of accounting entries have been automated and thoroughly tested. Each month we use system driven metrics to further enhance the
As the financial industry is inundated with data on a daily basis, having an intuitive and efficient way of visualising this data and maximising analysis and insight becomes ever more important.
This year, the award for the best software provider in this space goes to Nedelma Inc, a software product solutions company offering data visualisation, business intelligence, dynamic reporting, aggregation and other products.
Nedelma CEO Michael Medvinsky (pictured) says: “The amount of current, historical, market and other data from disparate data sources keeps increasing and very significant amounts of data are not analysed and under utilised by users. This leads
The firm behind this year’s best UCITS liquid alternatives platform, ML Capital, is undergoing a rebrand and as of March 2019 will be known as MontLake. “After extensive research, we recognised that the marketplace knows the company more prominently as MontLake through our award-winning platform, rather than as ML Capital. After much deliberation, we have decided to change our name,” says Cyril Delamare, CEO of MontLake.
This year the firm celebrates its tenth anniversary and Delamare (pictured) says it was the opportune time to revert to the firm’s original name – MontLake.
Last year was one of growth for MontLake.
