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.
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Equity Trustees supports Colchester’s first ETFs
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…
NTRS to service Harding Loevner’s first U.S. ETF
Northern Trust has been appointed by Harding Loevner to provide ETF servicing solutions for its first U.S. ETF, the International Developed Markets Select Equity ETF. This is believed to be Northern Trust’s first ETF servicing mandate in the U.S., covering custody, fund accounting, fund administration and transfer agency, alongside ETF-specific services such as basket creation,…
Dawson appoints Northern Trust
Northern Trust has been appointed by Dawson Partners to provide fund administration and other related services. Dawson Partners is an alternative asset manager focused on private markets. Headquartered in Toronto, with offices in London, New York and Hong Kong, the firm manages >USD27bn.
Langham Hall supports USD6.4bn fund launch
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 supports new defence fund
Aztec has supported Lakestar, a European venture capital investment adviser, on the closing of its USD300m Resilience I Fund, a Guernsey-regulated defence-related fund.
Aztec supports new solar fund
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…
Waystone supports Pictet ETF launch
Waystone, a provider of specialist services to the asset management industry, has supported Pictet Asset Management with the launch of its first European AI Enhanced Equity Active UCITS ETF range. The ETFs are listed on XETRA and Euronext, with further listings on the London Stock Exchange and SIX Swiss Exchange to follow. Waystone is providing…
IQ-EQ supports new Irish property ICAV
IQ-EQ has supported a major Irish residential investment platform, acting as alternative investment fund manager (AIFM) to the fund underpinning the transaction. The partners in the fund – APG, a Dutch pensions group, and Kennedy Wilson, the Irish property investment group – intend to invest a reported EUR2bn (USD2.3bn) in residential properties in Ireland through…
Invesco expands with NTRS
Northern Trust has been appointed by Invesco to provide administration, custody and depositary services for its new Ireland-domiciled index tracking mutual fund range, Invesco Markets V ICAV. The new fund range is designed to make Invesco’s swap-based (synthetic) approach to index replication available to mutual fund investors in Europe via investment platforms and other institutional…