Category: Alts

Société Générale Securities Services has been selected by Altarea Investment Managers as provider of trustee and recordkeeping services for its first retail fund (Société Civile de Placement Immobilier – SCPI). SGSS will also provide a bank guarantee specific to the SCPI as required by the regulator. Established in 2022 by Altarea Group and approved by…

Sanjiv Sawhney has been appointed global CEO of Waystone. He joins from Citi, where he has led global and regional investor services teams for the last 15 years, most recently as global head of client coverage, securities services. Earlier this year, Waystone abruptly parted company with Derek Delaney, CEO, Paul Cahill, COO, and Glen Magee,…

Gen II Fund Services, an independent private capital fund administrator with USD1trn AuA, has appointed Bob Caporale as group president. Caporale assumes this role after serving as head of corporate development for the past three years. Gen II is in the process of acquiring the private capital administration business of Crestbridge.

Altum Group, the UK-based financial services provider, has been granted an Undertaking for Collective Investment (UCI) extension by the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) in Luxembourg. This enables Altum to provide a fully integrated fund administration and transfer agency solution to alternative investment funds. This news follows the recent announcement of its agreed…

Apex has been appointed by The Investment Trust of India Limited to provide fund administration services to the ITI Long Short Equity Offshore Fund in India’s Gujarat International Finance Tec-City International Financial Centre (GIFT City). Incorporated in 1991, ITI is one of India’s largest financial services conglomerates. ITI has >USD650m AuM in mutual funds and…

Northern Trust has completed the first stage toward an industry-wide voluntary carbon credit ecosystem that would allow institutional buyers to digitally access carbon credits from leading project developers. This follows Northern Trust’s milestone of completing fully automated transactions on the initial MVP digital carbon credit platform it has developed with carbon avoidance and removal project…

Citco, the asset servicing provider to the alternative investment industry, has made the Citco Collaboration Platform available to a wider range of private markets clients, and added further functionality. The platform, which allows clients to carry out a variety of interactions with Citco through a single window via CitcoOne, now serves not only private equity…

Apex has agreed to acquire IP Fund Managers Guernsey Ltd (IPFMG), a Guernsey-based ManCo.The acquisition of IPFMG will add USD200m AuA, across eight funds and six fund managers. Apex’s existing ManCo services, delivered under the FundRock brands, cover >1,200 funds with a total of EUR234bn (USD250bn) AuM across 12 countries, including Guernsey, Luxembourg and Ireland.…

BNY Mellon has hired one of the superstars of the global investor services business. Christine Waldron is joining as head of fund services, having worked for nearly 25 years at U.S. Bank, most recently as chief product officer for the wealth and investment services business lines. She replaces Alan Flanagan, who has been appointed head…

Apex has opened an office in Denver, Colorado. The office will be led by James Wheatley, global head of operations – private equity & direct lending, and Jason Sauve, director of fund administration services. Apex currently has multiple client service delivery teams located in Denver, with plans to double headcount through the creation of new…