Category: Alts

Mercatus, a technology provider to alternative investors and asset managers with USD540bn on its platform, has appointed Jeff Conway to its board of directors. Before leaving State Street earlier this year, Conway was head of global delivery and business transformation, having spent 30 years at the firm.

Exchangelodge, a US-based provider of SaaS digital process automation and data integration solutions to alternative investment managers, has launched Exchangelodge Version 2.0, which includes a fund administration oversight module. This module automates a fund of hedge fund manager’s review of their administrators by utilising workflows, business rules, and data interrogation to highlight exceptions.

Alter Domus, the Luxembourg-based fund and corporate services provider, has appointed three new country executives in Europe, all reporting to George Rologis, head of EMEA. Mark Gebauer has been appointed country executive for Germany. He was an associate partner at Ernst and Young. Therese Wijnen has been appointed country executive for the Netherlands. She joins…

BNY Mellon has strengthened its EMEA private markets team with the appointments of Greg Kok and Robert Burchett-Coates. Kok joins as director, private equity, real estate, debt and infrastructure, and will be based in Luxembourg. He was previously at Maitland, where he was head of management company services. Based in London, Burchett-Coates joins as director,…

Ultimus Fund Solutions has agreed to acquire LeverPoint Management, a U.S.-based provider of fund administration and support services to private equity, venture capital and real estate managers. Ultimus’ private fund business will operate as Ultimus LeverPoint Private Fund Solutions and will provide administration for approximately USD90bn of private fund assets across 230 clients. In total,…

Prologis, the U.S.-based industrial real estate investment manager, has selected Apex Group to provide depositary and transfer agency services to the Prologis European Logistics Fund. PELF is Europe’s largest open-ended logistics fund, with assets valued at EUR10.6bn. The fund, which is domiciled in Luxembourg, will be serviced by the Apex subsidiary, European Depositary Bank.

29JUL19: IQ-EQ (formerly SGG Group), the Luxembourg-based administrator, has acquired Peru & Partners, a Paris-based consulting firm and fund administrator dedicated to the private equity market. The acquisition adds to IQ-EQ’s existing Paris-based business, Equitis. Established in 2009 by its principal, Sebastien Peru, the business will add fund administration, CFO services, GP and portfolio company…

25JUL19: Northern Trust has established a dedicated options trading desk within its institutional brokerage business. The Chicago-based options desk provides institutional clients globally with options trading and streamlined reporting for prime brokerage. Options trading at Northern Trust is offered through an agency model with no principal trading operation. Northern Trust executes more than USD350bn notional…