Category: Independents

Norlantic Capital, a U.S.-based private markets firm, has established Norlantic ICAV, an umbrella ICAV authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland as a QIAIF with segregated liability between sub-funds. Norlantic ICAV is an AIF. Norlantic ICAV is managed by JTC Global AIFM Solutions (Ireland) Limited.

BlackRock has launched eFront Provider, designed to enable asset servicers to offer asset managers a modern fund servicing experience, complete with real-time views into their private markets investor, fund and investment data. eFront Provider complements BlackRock’s widely used fund administration, investor servicing and data management capabilities for private markets asset servicers. Apex has been onboarded…

Frank Anduiza has joined Vistra as MD for the U.S. funds business. Vistra has also added four enterprise account managers for the U.S. – Christopher Murphy, Sean Ward, Matt Podolsky and Tony Olivo. The move follows Vistra’s recent acquisition of Phoenix American. Based in New York, Anduiza joins from Ultimus LeverPoint Private Fund Solutions. He…

Nikko Asset Management Co. Ltd, together with its subsidiaries, Nikko AM Group, one of Asia’s largest asset managers, has reached an agreement to transfer its ManCo in Luxembourg to FundRock Management Company S.A., a subsidiary of Apex Group. The transfer agreement includes the sale of Nikko Asset Management Luxembourg S.A. to Apex. Following this, FundRock…

Carne Group, the European provider of fund regulation and governance solutions for the asset management industry and Europe’s largest third-party management company, has appointed John Cotter as its new chief financial officer. He joins Carne’s board and executive committee, reporting to John Donohoe, the group’s founder and CEO. He joins from Wells Fargo Bank International.

Waystone, a European provider of specialist services to the global asset management industry, has been appointed as ManCo by American Century Investments for its first European ETFs. The two UCITS ETFs – Avantis Global Small Cap Value UCITS ETF and Avantis Global Equity UCITS ETF – have been launched under American Century’s quantitative investment unit,…