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Capital Support is a leading managed IT services provider. Midway through 2015, it was acquired by Six Degrees Group. Being able to rely on a stronger balance sheet, coupled with the fact that Six Degrees Group owns data centres and network assets, has helped Capital Support win larger and more complex customers, according to COO, Carl Chapman.
"We've always been fortunate to have an enviable customer list, even if most prefer no publicity. The new names on this customer list are swelling the USD500 billion AUM our customers reported last year," says Chapman (pictured).
Capital Support is able to provide customers with
The latest in a series of white papers from SuMi TRUST covers the topical subject of cyber-security and what fund managers need to know. The thought leadership piece is based on presentations and contributions to the discussion from a webinar attended by Gerard Joyce, co-founder of CalQRisk; Kurt Baumgarten, Head of Information Security at Linedata; John Rogers, a Principal at Booz Allen Hamilton; Marshall Terry, a Managing Director, the Chief Operating Officer and the Chief Compliance Officer of Rotation Capital Management, LP.
Cyber-Security and what fund managers need to know
For fund managers, cyber-security has emerged as a large
FlexTrade Systems has appointed Tim Wong, Maroof Khan, and Dan Enstedt as Vice Presidents of Business Development, Multi-Asset Sales, for the company’s APAC region.
According to Manish Kedia (pictured), Managing Director of FlexTrade Systems Pte Ltd, in Singapore, multi-asset trading has gained a solid foothold in the APAC region on both the buy-side and sell-side.
“Considering the growth of electronic trading in the area, it became paramount for us to expand our sales presence with a more regional focus,” says Kedia. “With Tim in North Asia, Maroof handling South East Asia and Dan covering Australia and New Zealand, FlexTrade is
The attraction for private equity as an alternative asset class is as strong as perhaps it has ever been. As the results of a recent E&Y survey reveal (Positioning to win: 2015 global private equity survey), 19 per cent of investors said they currently allocate up to 5 per cent of capital to private equity, but 39 per cent said they allocate more than 25 per cent.
This is encouraging news for private equity managers, but with it comes extra responsibility as investors and regulators alike ramp up their due diligence. Indeed whereas only 28 per cent of managers said
Counselytics has deployed its AI technology in the alternatives investment space. Using machine learning technology, Counselytics is aimed at providing a fast, economical and automated process to find and analyse limited partnership agreements wherever they reside.
As Counselytics finds and centralises LPAs, it classifies and extracts up to 35 key partnership terms, including details on fees and expenses, waterfalls, taxation and governance. Counselytics also works as a question answering system with the ability to query for specific issues related to the LPAs, and the system returns both the correct answer and the most relevant sections of the LPA. The technology can analyse
Oligo Swiss Fund Services received its license from the Swiss authorities 13 months ago to provide Swiss legal representative services and has already onboarded more than 200 funds registered for distribution to Swiss qualified investors. These include offshore hedge funds, UCITS-compliant hedge funds and private equity funds.
"Our team has experience in hedge funds, UCITS funds and private equity funds," explains Luis Pedro (pictured), CEO of Oligo Swiss Fund Services. "The size of fund assets on the platform ranges from EUR20 million at the lower end to EUR20 billion at the upper end, spanning all types of strategies and structures
Switzerland is a key part of the global business model at BNP Paribas Securities Services, whose successful acquisition last June of Credit Suisse Prime Fund Services has helped it to become an industry leader in alternative fund administration.
With a depositary bank network spanning 15 European jurisdictions, EUR1.2 trillion of assets under depositary and 1.8 trillion of assets under administration, BNP Paribas Securities Services is leveraging its scalability and breadth of expertise to bring support to Switzerland's fund management community; both traditional and alternative.
Commenting on the PFS acquisition, Garrick Smith (pictured), Head of BNP Paribas Securities Services Switzerland, emphasises
It is now one year in to the Swiss Collective Investment Scheme Act (CISA) and overall impressions appear to be that it has been a success. One particular aspect of CISA, namely the requirement for alternative fund managers marketing their funds in Switzerland to "unregulated qualified investors" (eg pension funds, family offices) to appoint a Swiss Fund Representative and Paying Agent, has proven to be no more than a mild shower in a teacup.
A year ago, fund managers were aghast at the idea of having to incur yet more regulatory costs, but those fears have proven to be largely
By Michaël Malquarti (pictured), SYZ Asset Management – Although the phenomenal growth in index management since the 1990s had already begun to shake up the fund management industry, the 2008 crisis triggered a more profound reform process. This change is particularly visible in the alternative investments arena. As well as reinforced standards governing hedge funds, the most spectacular transformation has probably been the emergence and astonishing growth of alternative UCITS in Europe.
Several factors underpin this situation. Current macro-economic uncertainty and the associated asset volatility are certainly behind stronger demand for different types of funds, generally perceived as being less risky.
Geneva-based SwissRepCo was established in January 2014 by industry veterans Dermot Butler (pictured), former chairman of Custom House Group, a leading fund administrator, and Lancelot Frick, a fifth generation Swiss private banker and CEO and President of Frick Capital SA. ("Frick").
SwissRepCo arose in response to FINMA's decision to beef up existing fund regulations that had been brought in in 2006. In 2013, those regulations were enforced under the Collective Investment Schemes Act (`CISA') but it wasn't until 1 March 2015 that foreign hedge funds were mandated to appoint a Swiss legal representative and paying agent to continue distributing their
