Last year was one of smooth transition for MacMillan Communications as Chris Sullivan took the helm as President of the firm, after having worked there for 13 years. “This was part of a well thought out succession plan that myself and the firm’s founder, Mike MacMillan, had been talking about for around five years,” Sullivan says. He explains further: “One of our greatest achievements in 2018 is the smoothness with which we managed the transition. Some organisations can have a bumpy period when there are significant changes at the top. It was very important to us that the clients and

Lutetia Capital was founded in 2009 by Jean-François Comte (CIO) and Fabrice Seiman (CEO) and across its two offices in Paris and London the team manages approximately USD1.1 billion in assets.  Lutetia operates the Lutetia Patrimoine Fund, a UCITS-compliant “pure” merger arbitrage strategy that focuses on North America and Europe combining qualitative and proprietary quantitative research in the investment process.  In addition, it also manages the Lutetia Merger Arbitrage Fund, an Irish ICAV offered to global investors with monthly liquidity terms. The aim of this fund, which launched in December 2017, is to deliver enhanced returns by using 3x exposure.

Invast Global aims to provide clients with flexibility and focus. This year’s best specialist market prime broker aims to tailor its offering to the needs of its clients. According to chief executive officer Gavin White it’s this willingness to bend for the client that the large Tier One primes can’t compete with in the current environment. “We also have a very sharp focus on technology. We aspire to be at the forefront in the industry and we have invested in talent and expertise. Our development teams in Tokyo and Sydney will continue to keep us innovative and help us provide our

Last year marked a strong year for BNY Mellon’s HedgeMark business. The firm ended the year with 105 dedicated managed accounts (DMAs). Crossing the 100 DMA milestone has set the pace for the firm’s trajectory for growth. In 2018, HedgeMark also won a number of institutional mandates from large global clients and saw its platform assets increase by more than USD4 billion. A wholly-owned subsidiary of BNY Mellon since 2014, this is the fifth consecutive year in which HedgeMark, has won the award for best managed accounts platform. The firm specialises in supporting institutional clients in the development and

This year’s best global accounting firm EisnerAmper LLP makes sure it keeps in close contact with clients throughout the year in its efforts to bring exceptional service and provide advice on a timely basis. Audit Partner, Nicholas Tsafos (pictured), says having a global presence gives clients a homogenous experience, particularly in cases where they have investment vehicles registered in different jurisdictions. “This way, these companies only deal with us – they don’t have to go to another accounting firm to get the same level of service. Even if they were with the big four accounting firms, their offices are not

As transparency and communication continue to be salient topics of discussion for alternative investment managers, DMS Governance spent 2018 delivering high quality services across a diverse range of investment structures and strategies. The first professional fund governance firm founded in 2000, DMS Governance has the largest capacity in the industry and has continued to expand its business to better serve its suite of clients. DMS Governance represents leading investment firms and 60 per cent of the top hedge funds globally. In September 2018, DMS Governance went live with cash and position reconciliation modules from Fund Recs. This saw the firm

This year’s best outsourced trading provider succeeded in keeping its ship steady and maintaining a high level of client service through the financial market turbulence experienced early and late in the year. This, according to Jack Seibald (pictured), managing director and global co-head, prime brokerage & outsourced trading, was one of Cowen Prime Services’s best achievements over the course of the year. “Despite the curve balls thrown at our clients by the markets, we continued to expand both our prime brokerage and outsourced trading businesses. This achievement is a reflection of the loyal and dedicated team we have at Cowen which

AlternativeSoft is a multi-award-winning quantitative analytics software specialising in asset selection, portfolio construction and customised reporting. It is the only analytical tool on the market that allows users to build and manage a universe with data easily imported from any source including Bloomberg, Morningstar, Albourne, HFR, EurekaHedge, HFM, Preqin and many more. Using AlternativeSoft’s powerful quantitative analytics, investors can identify top-performing fund managers as well as construct and optimise portfolios of fund allocations.  “Our ultimate goal is to use data and knowledge to empower investors,” says Laurent Favre (pictured), CEO and Founder of AlternativeSoft. He explains further: “Investors want to

Cyber security is a relatively new compliance requirement in the investment management space. Align sees cyber security as a multi-factorial phenomenon and thus its team takes a multi-disciplinary approach to providing comprehensive solutions to the cyber security challenges investment managers face day-to-day, as well as within the context of their capital raising, ODD and compliance activities. John Araneo (pictured), managing director at Align, explains that in 2018, the firm bolstered its cyber security offering by making remarkable progress in building a mature outsourced IT offering that utilises the public cloud and is specifically optimised for investment managers. As a sibling

Agecroft has changed the model of hedge fund third party marketing,” says Don Steinbrugge, Agecroft Partners Founder and CEO. “Most third-party marketing models are based on leveraging personal relationships and doing extensive entertaining. Ours has been to build a global brand with a reputation as an industry thought leader, strong institutional investment knowledge and representing very high quality managers.”  Agecroft Partners has been a prolific writer of industry thought pieces and white papers. Often asked to share their thoughts with the media on the hedge fund industry, they have also been a regular guest on Bloomberg Television and CNBC and have