Category: Independents

Homestead Funds has appointed Ultimus Fund Solutions as its transfer agent. RE Advisers, the USD8.4bn AuM investment adviser of Homestead Funds, transitioned its fund family of ten mutual funds from the previous provider to Ultimus. Homestead Funds represents over 42,000 shareholder accounts. Homestead Funds is a mutual fund manager with roots in rural America, formed…

LemonEdge, a platform provider for managing private markets fund and portfolio accounting, has formed a partnership with Freyda, an AI and deep learning platform focused on building technology solutions to digitise private markets globally. The connection between LemonEdge and Freyda enables institutional investors and fund administrators to automatically pull structured data directly into the underlying…

IQ-EQ has appointed Ray Murphy as senior managing director of accounting & CFO services in North America. In this newly created role, Murphy will drive IQ-EQ’s efforts to grow its outsourced CFO business in the U.S., with a particular focus on private equity clients. He joins from State Street. IQ-EQ first entered the U.S. alternative…

Apex has been appointed to provide fund administration services to Adit Ventures’ new Irish-domiciled Investment Limited Partnership fund. Services include fund accounting, investor services and audit assistance. Adit recently appointed two JTC-owned firms to provide AIFM and depositary services to the fund.

Sharegain, a UK-registered securities finance fintech, has raised USD64m in a series B round led by WestCap and joined by Citi, EJF Capital LLC and Optiver PSI. Participating existing investors include Maverick Ventures Israel, Blumberg Capital, SixThirty, Rhodium, and the Kessler family office.

Apex has been appointed to provide fund administration and transfer agency services for the NEOR Crypto Volatility Fund. NEOR is a long/short quantitative algo crypto vol trading fund with strategies based on artificial intelligence combined with deep-learning models aimed at identifying trading opportunities by digesting real-time data from multiple sources. Eagle Eye Finance Sàrl is…

Charles River Development, a State Street company, has formed an alliance with Precisely, a data integrity specialist. Precisely’s data governance solution, Data360 Govern, will be incorporated into the State Street Alpha data platform to provide streamlined governance, lineage, and cataloguing capabilities.

JTC Americas (formerly NES Financial) has entered into an agreement with VENTURE.co Holdings, Inc. to deliver an improved investor onboarding process. VENTURE.co is a U.S.-based software-as-a-service company offering an integrated virtual data room, distribution management tools, and automated document processing for fund and private equity sponsors, broker-dealers and RIA firms. JTC Americas is the North…