Category: Independents

Ultimus Fund Solutions has appointed Danielle Adamson as chief client officer, a newly established role focused on strengthening client experience across the firm’s public and private markets businesses. Most recently, she served as senior director of client coverage for BNY‘s asset servicing division. Prior to BNY, she spent 16 years at State Street.

ZILO, the UK-based fintech delivering global asset and wealth management software, has launched a fully integrated digital transfer agency platform, unifying traditional mutual fund administration with digital asset capabilities, including digitally native issuance, across a single platform. ZILO has also struck a deal with Ripple, which will join as an investor. The partnership brings together…

First Plus Asset Management, a Singapore-based investment management firm, has selected SS&C to provide cross-border operations support across Asia. SS&C will service First Plus across the full investment lifecycle, delivering transfer agency, order management and execution, and investment accounting. SS&C will support around USD200m AuM.

Equity Trustees has been appointed RE (trustee) for two new ETFs from Colchester Global Investors, marking the firm’s first ETF offerings in Australia and extending a long-standing partnership between the two organisations. Colchester Global Investors is a privately owned investment management firm offering value oriented, global bond management services. Colchester has funds under management of…

Citco has launched Citco Credit Portal, a unification of its credit ecosystem that creates a single-point-of-entry experience for clients to access all loan data and credit products. The portal is initially being made available to Citco’s loan agency and servicing clients.

Langham Hall, the UK-based administrator, has supported Clipway on the final close of its secondaries fund, Clipway Secondary Fund I, at USD6.4bn. The fund focuses on diversified LP-led secondary transactions in North American and Western European buyout funds. Langham Hall has provided fund administration, AIFM and depositary services from its Luxembourg office, supporting Clipway from…

Aztec Group, the C.I.-based administrator, has supported NextEnergy Capital, a UK-based renewables investment manager, with the final close – at USD974m – of NextPower V SCSp, a Luxembourg-domiciled fund focused on solar infrastructure. Aztec provided administration, accounting and transfer agency services to the fund from its Luxembourg office. Aztec’s relationship with NextEnergy Capital dates back…

Alter Domus has appointed Jason Sheller as head of commercial, North America. He will lead the business development and relationship management teams across North America. His career includes positions at CBRE, where he spent seven years, J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank and, most recently, just three months at Juniper Square.