Solutions
Hedge fund intelligence provider Sanostro is teaming up with IFS Independent Financial Services to develop tailored solutions for pension funds and other institutional investors in Switzerland.
IFS is a specialised consultant and asset manager with a dedicated team focusing on solutions for institutional investors and large private investors.
“We are very happy about this cooperation. With IFS’s experience, client knowledge and implementation power we will be able to structure highly targeted solutions for sophisticated investors like pension funds,” says Vincent Couson (pictured), partner at Sanostro.
“We see Sanostro as a highly innovative partner in the space of dynamically
Global Merces has selected FundCount, a Boston-based provider of accounting and investment analysis software, to support the firm’s fund administration operations.
FundCount provides a single integrated interface through which Global Merces will be able to calculate and manage the firm’s partnership and general ledger accounting activity. The solution’s automated features will streamline workflow and improve overall operational efficiency.
Global Merces is an Australia-based investment management firm that designs, builds and operates managed hedge funds on behalf of investment managers. he firm offers Responsible Entity, custodial, full trustee, back-office administration and other funds management services.
“FundCount offered a cost-effective
MainFirst, an independent German-headquartered European financial services firm specialising in equity brokerage, capital markets and asset management, has completed the migration to Torstone’s middle and back office platform, Inferno.
Inferno is Torstone’s core post-trade processing platform, a multi-asset, multi-entity system, covering trade capture, confirmation, settlement, accounting and reconciliation.
MainFirst chose to implement Torstone’s Inferno in August 2016, following a pilot project which included German specific confirmations and transaction reporting, as well as connectivity to Deutsche Boerse. MainFirst went live on Inferno in March 2017, migrating all post-trade processing away from the incumbent third party system.
Michael Lange, partner,
SEI has welcomed three new participants to Codify, the company’s new Regulation Technology (RegTech) incubator. Codify is the first London-based incubator designed solely for financial regulation technology developers.
The incubator provides participants with crucial business resources and development opportunities, including office space in SEI’s UK headquarters for a minimum of four months, providing access to SEI’s extensive in-house resources and exposing them to a number of financial services sectors.
Mentoring from both SEI employees and third-party experts across various disciplines is also part of the package. External mentors include Jason Boud of the RegTech Forum, executives from leading RegTech start-ups, and
Global hedge fund middle office and accounting firm Viteos has been awarded Best Global Shadow Accounting Firm at the Hedgeweek Global Awards 2017.
Hedgeweek notes that the awards recognise “excellence among hedge fund managers and service providers (and) celebrate the achievements of firms that contributed to another significant year for the sector.”
Especially significant is that winners are selected by Hedgeweek’s readership across the entire scope of professionals in the hedge fund space, including investors and managers as well as fund administrators, custodians, accountants and auditors, law firms, consultants and fund distributors.
Hedge funds and traditional asset managers have
Triple Leo Consulting, founded by industry veteran Mike Quinn, has launched its full-service hedge fund administration and operational consulting business based in the Philadelphia suburbs.
Triple Leo will offer full-service fund administration and operational consulting services to alternative investment managers, primarily in the hedge funds and fund of funds space.
The firm will also provide services for separately managed accounts and family offices.
Quinn says: “The firm was founded on the premise that financial services needs to be simple, efficient and timely. Our goal is to provide very high-quality, customised solutions to investment managers, while keeping the costs
For newly emerging investment firms or long-standing established ones, the choice to adopt a cloud-based architecture is becoming an easy one. Few firms have a business model where an in-house Comm. Room makes strategic or economic sense. And even for those who have the means to do so, managing and maintaining all levels of IT on-premise may not always make the most business sense.
Whether it’s the entirety of your technology environment or a few select applications, most firms find that it’s worth considering a cloud platform to leverage a predictable, scalable and feature-rich infrastructure. But when is the right
ACA Technology Solutions has enhanced its trade surveillance product, Decryptex, to assist global clients in meeting the EU’s current Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) requirements and the EU’s upcoming revision to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II).
Decryptex is developed in conjunction with ACA Compliance Group’s regulatory consulting team, providing clients with advanced trade surveillance tools that are designed with fundamental input from those with relevant regulatory and compliance expertise.
In this release, Decryptex users can deploy algorithms designed specifically to identify potential market manipulation, fairness in dealing, and potential use of material non-public information (MNPI).
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Axioma was founded by Chief Executive Officer Sebastian Ceria in 1998 and is a leading provider of innovative risk and portfolio management solutions, supporting the industry's largest, most sophisticated hedge fund managers and asset management groups. The company's product offering enables clients to consistently and effectively analyse risk in order to improve investment strategy, risk reporting and operational efficiency across an entire organisation.
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Agecroft Partners was founded by Don Steinbrugge (pictured), who has 33 years of experience in the institutional investment management industry, including previously serving as the head of sales for one of the world's largest hedge funds and institutional investment management firms.
"Agecroft has changed the model of hedge fund third party marketing," says Steinbrugge. "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
