The London-headquartered IMS Group is a leading provider of consulting and integrated business support to the asset management and securities industry. The group’s core service offering is regulatory compliance consulting to UK-regulated financial services firms. IMS supports more than 600 investment businesses, ranging from established global firms to start-ups. Its clients include many of the world’s largest hedge funds, private equity firms, funds of funds, family offices and institutional pension funds. As well as offering ongoing compliance consulting, IMS has offered a complete FSA application project management service since 1997. Its FSA regulatory transactions team is the country’s only dedicated

Netherlands-based seeding platform IMQubator has a simple mission: to deliver high absolute returns to its investors by investing in new, up-and-coming investment managers. The multi-manager fund uses a structure comparable to a joint/shared account. IMQ Investment Management is investment manager, selecting and managing each new addition to IMQubator and actively monitoring them on a weekly basis. “We demand that in their first years of operation new teams establish their business centre on the same office floor as IMQ,” says the firm’s chief executive, Jeroen Tielman (pictured). “This enables us, among other things, to have weekly CIO-to-CIO meetings with emerging managers

Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a strong private client franchise. A leader in Germany and Europe, the bank is continuously growing in North America, Asia and key emerging markets. With more than 100,000 employees in 74 countries, Deutsche Bank offers unparalleled financial services throughout the world. The bank competes to be the leading global provider of financial solutions, creating lasting value for its clients, shareholders, people and the communities in which it operates. In response to increasing investor demand for alternative Ucits-compliant products, Deutsche Bank decided to launch a Luxembourg-domiciled Ucits III variation of Winton Capital

Dalton Strategic Partnership, established in 2002 by a group of ex-Mercury Asset Management colleagues, is a global investment management firm that manages assets on behalf of institutions, family offices, charities, foundations, private clients and retail investors. This is achieved through the use of specialist equity funds (all named Melchior), global asset allocation portfolios and a private client business. The firm has offices in London, Hong Kong and Mumbai as well as affiliated offices in Tokyo and Toronto. It is owned by its 16 working partners, including founding partners Andrew Dalton and Magnus Spence (pictured), and had USD2bn in assets under

Custom House was established in Ireland in 1989 to provide a broad range of fund services to its clients. The group merged into Equity Trust on September 1, 2008, in effect becoming a joint venture between Equity Trust and the Custom House management. At that time, the holding company Custom House Global Fund Services was established in Malta. The company now has more than 260 employees and subsidiary offices in Chicago, Dublin, Guernsey, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Singapore. Custom House Singapore first opened its doors in April 2008 and has since grown to more than 60 personnel. The office has

London-based Capital Support was established in 2002 and is still privately owned. With offices located across the capital in Docklands, the City and the West End, the firm currently employs approximately 80 people and considers itself a vertical specialist in financial services technology. It is one of the UK’s leading IT solutions providers to the financial and professional services industry. Capital Support’s team of directors includes Nigel Brooks (pictured) and Dean Foreman, both of whom have extensive experience in the IT industry. By offering a one-stop IT service, Capital Support is able to provide bespoke solutions to its clients, and

London-based hedge fund advisor Audley Capital Advisors was established in 2005 by activist investor Julian Treger and private equity investor Michael Treichl. Launched that year, the Audley European Opportunities Fund generates alpha by making opportunistic investments in distressed situations, creating value through financial and/or operational restructurings. Because Audley orchestrates its own exit strategies, it considers itself to be more an “event-driver” than an event-driven manager. The firm currently advises on some USD900m in assets under management within Audley’s own funds and affiliated funds. Audley is regulated by the FSA, while the fund is regulated by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission.

Alcentra focuses its investment strategies on sub-investment grade debt capital markets of Europe and North America.

Alceda Fund Management is an independent service provider 100 per cent owned by Aquila Group based in Hamburg, Germany. Launched in 2007, Luxembourg-based Alceda has been one of the fastest growing structuring specialists in Europe, with current assets under administration of over USD4.5bn. It is one of Europe’s leading independent structuring specialists dedicated to providing institutional investors, fund managers, banks and family offices with tailored investment solutions. The Alceda UCITS Platform (AUP), which was designed in-house, provides its clients with the freedom to choose their own service providers from prime brokers to custodians and swap partners. This gives fund managers