Category: Independents

Alter Domus, the Luxembourg-based provider of fund administration, private debt, and corporate services for the alternative investment industry, has secured new investment from Cinven, a private equity firm. The transaction gives Alter Domus an enterprise value of EUR4.9bn (USD5.3bn). The founders of Alter Domus and Permira, the existing PE investor, will continue to be significant…

Altum Group, the C.I.-based financial services provider, has completed its acquisition of Link Fund Solutions (Luxembourg) S.A. (Link Luxembourg), following full regulatory approvals. Link Luxembourg is a provider of AIFM and third-party ManCo services. Following the close, Link Luxembourg will soon be rebranded to Altum Management Company (Luxembourg) S.A. and will operate as a subsidiary…

After a 10-month sabbatical, Ally Kyle has emerged at Broadridge Financial Solutions as director, ICS international account management. Kyle spent 10 years at HSBC, most recently as head of account management in Europe for asset owners and managers. ICS is Broadridge’s investor communications business.

Entrust Evergreen Partners has appointed Apex to provide fund administration services and has announced the launch of its inaugural pan-Asia publicly listed equities fund. EEP is an independent investment firm operating out of Hong Kong.

Crestbridge, the UK-based administrator, has appointed James Morris as commercial director for Europe. He joins from TMF, where he was head of EMEA private equity & debt fund sales. Crestbridge is negotiating the sale of its fund administration business to Gen II, one of the world’s largest independent private capital fund administrators, with >USD1trn AuA.

SLIB, the post-trade fintech, and Clarus Risk, an Apex Group company focused on risk management solutions, have rolled out RiskMonitor within SLIB’s RMS (Risk Management Solution) platform. The platform is designed to provide improved governance and transparency for multi-asset risk exposures to enable greater efficiency within the brokerage market. RiskMonitor’s API solution utilises a multi-asset…

ETC Group has appointed Zodia Custody to support its latest ETP listed on Deutsche Börse XETRA, the ETC Group Ethereum Staking ETP, a total return exchange-traded product that tracks the Compass Ethereum Total Return Monthly Index. The ETP is fully backed by the underlying digital assets, and counterparty risk is negated through an independent trustee.…

LGPS Central, which manages GBP56bn (USD71bn) on behalf of eight UK local government pension schemes, has appointed State Street as provider of fund administration services for its private markets investments. State Street will initially support 13 funds managed by a combination of LGPS Central and its third-party managers with fund administration, registration services, investor services…