Category: Mandates

Nh1816 Verzekeringen,a Dutch cooperative insurer, has appointed CACEIS to provide custody, administration, performance measurement, compliance monitoring, execution, and regulatory reporting services. Nh1816 is the leading Dutch provider of private non-life insurance through its network of financial advisors, with some EUR620m in revenues, EUR1.2bn in investments, 2.6 million policies, and >610K insured individuals.

Maples Group has supported Warba Bank with launch of USD200m Islamic fund. Warba, a Kuwait-based bank with a track record in Islamic finance, has expanded its global investment product offering by establishing a Cayman Islands-based Shariah-compliant structure to allocate capital to its newly established Warba Islamic Income Fund with the assistance of Maples Group and…

HUB, the fintech that is partly backed by State Street, has won a mandate from Acer Tree Investment Management for HUB NAV Oversight, a SaaS solution designed to optimise and automate NAV processes. Acer Tree, a mid-sized UK-based asset manager specialising in alternative investments, will leverage HUB NAV Oversight to streamline its NAV oversight process.

Northern Trust has been appointed by Sydney-based Platinum Asset Management to provide comprehensive asset servicing solutions across its Australian funds. Platinum Asset Management focuses on global equities and has approximately AUD11bn (USD6.8bn) AuM. Under the terms of the new mandate, Northern Trust will provide custody, fund administration, regulatory reporting, investment operations outsourcing, ETF administration and…

The Lincolnshire County Council Pension Fund has selected CACEIS and the CACEIS Pensions Centre to provide custody, accounting and performance services as part of a GBP3.5bn (USD4.3bn) mandate. CACEIS Pensions Centre is a dedicated administration hub backed by technology platform SimCorp Dimension. This end-to-end solution will provide Lincolnshire County Council Pension Fund with administration capabilities,…

Canoe Intelligence, a platform for “smarter alts management”, has a new client engagement with Fondaco, an independent Italian asset management company with offices in Turin and Luxembourg. Fondaco has implemented Canoe Connect to automate its alternative investment document collection workflow into a centralised location and Canoe Intelligence to systematise its valuation and transaction data extraction…

South Yorkshire Pensions Authority, a UK local authority with GBP11bn (USD13.5bn) AuM, has appointed Northern Trust as custodian for the South Yorkshire Pension Fund. A factor in this decision was Northern Trust’s existing relationship with the Border to Coast Pensions Partnership.

Coller Capital, an investor in the secondary market for private assets, has selected Equity Trustees to be the responsible entity (trustee) of its new fund, the Coller Private Equity Secondaries Fund. The fund is an Australian managed investment scheme available to both qualified retail and wholesale investors.