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DiligenceVault, a digital diligence platform that delivers data collection and information exchange solutions for asset owners, allocators and fund managers, has released its latest white paper entitled “2021 Manager Survey: How RFPs and DDQs Get Done.”
The paper presents the results of its recent survey of over 170 private equity, hedge and long-only managers fund managers exploring how marketing, investor relations and compliance professionals are optimising their staffing, processes and technologies to meet the due diligence needs of the allocator community.
The primary areas of focus for the survey are centred around Investor Requests and Team Sizes, Consultant vs Third-Party
PGIM has appointed Linda Gibson as CEO of its USD119 billion quantitative equity and multi-asset solutions specialist, QMA.
Gibson has been with QMA since July 2019 as chief business officer and will step into the CEO role on 15 October.
“Linda brings nearly thirty years of global leadership experience across multiple business functions and a strong understanding of the asset management industry,” says PGIM CEO David Hunt. “This is an exciting time for the firm.”
“I’m honoured to be leading this firm into the next phase of its development,” Gibson says. “Over the last few years, we have built on
Causality Link, an advanced, AI-driven financial information technology provider, has launched the third generation of its platform. The technology now includes automated hourly alert queries, the Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Navigator Tool, an expanded scope of system detection and more.
The Causality Link platform is an AI-powered system that collects millions of documents globally, in real-time, to identify explicit cause-and-effect statements relating indicators and events, aggregating the knowledge of thousands of authors into a single deductive system. Having processed and analysed more than 100 million texts in 27 languages spanning the past seven years of market activity, the platform provides
100 Women in Finance, the 20,000-member global industry association for hedge fund, alternatives and investment management professionals which aims to empower women within the global finance industry, has picked more than 300 female fund managers to participate in this year’s Global FundWomen Week, its annual flagship capital introduction event taking place from 20-24 September.
Launched in 2014, Global FundWomen Week – which takes place virtually for the second year, hosted on capital introduction technology platform iConnections – provides an opportunity for leading female fund managers to schedule one-on-one capital introduction meetings with institutional allocators.
More than 300 institutional allocators have
Altana Wealth, the credit, currency and special situations-focused hedge fund led by former Trafalgar Asset Managers co-founder Lee Robinson, is circling the restructuring and consolidation opportunities arising from the rebound in demand for oil and gas post-Covid.
Apex Group Ltd has entered into a joint venture with VCP Advisors, a provider of financial, advisory and capital raising services for corporate and fund manager clients.
VCP Advisors works with companies as well as closed-ended and open-ended funds across the private equity, private credit, venture capital, infrastructure, real estate and hedge fund asset classes, to provide advisory, capital raising and restructuring services to the institutional and family office investor community.
As part of this strategic partnership, VCP Advisors will re-brand as Apex VCP, enabling clients to benefit from VCP’s impressive track record in alternative asset management advisory, in
JTC, a global professional services business, has acquired Segue Partners (Segue), a fund services provider head-quartered in St Louis, Missouri, USA.
The initial consideration will be settled in cash and JTC equity. A further consideration is available on the achievement of performance targets in 2022 and 2023.
Michelle Murray, Managing Director and Founder of Segue Partners, created the business in 2010 and has led its successful growth since. Murray is a highly respected financial services professional and entrepreneur with over 28 years’ experience in venture capital and public accounting industries.
Segue differentiates its offering based on quality of service and
Canoe Intelligence (Canoe), a financial technology company focused on data management processes for alternative investors, wealth managers, asset servicers, and capital allocators, has appointed Vishal Saxena as its new Chief Technology Officer.
Saxena brings over 20 years of academic and industry experience within financial services to his new role. He will leverage his experience in team building, process optimisation, software development, project management and alternative and private investments domain knowledge to support Canoe’s growing client base and strengthen the company’s product and technology strategy.
Prior to joining Canoe, Saxena was a Managing Director in the Blackstone Technology and
The Managed Funds Association (MFA), an organisation representing the global alternative investment industry, has launched a partnership programme to support regional and state association growth and further strengthen the voice of the alternative investment industry.
Macrobond, a provider of global economic, aggregate financial and sector data for finance professionals, has teamed up with financial and data company FactSet to provide top-down researchers with insight into the dynamics of global equity markets.
Macrobond worked with FactSet to build an aggregate version of the US firm’s Quant Factor Library – a point-in-time database of factor insights and consolidated data, including alternative data, from more than 70,000 securities across 127 countries and more than 200 exchanges. FactSet Quant Factor Library helps users detect investment themes across global equity markets, incorporate ideas into their portfolio construction process and transform
