Category: Mandates

La Mutuelle Générale, a provider of health and retirement insurance in France, has selected Manaos, a BNP Paribas data management platform, for its ESG data collection and reporting needs. As part of the mandate, La Mutuelle Générale will use Manaos for the production of financial reports on climate and biodiversity. These reports will serve as…

Schroder Investment Management (Europe) S.A. has launched Schroders Capital – Private Equity ELTIF 2023, its first Luxembourg-domiciled ELTIF 2.0 private equity fund distributed in France and internationally. Schroders is one of the first asset managers to market an ELTIF 2.0 to French retail clients. SGSS has been selected by Schroders as centralising agent in France…

Ultimus Fund Solutions, the U.S.-based independent provider of fund administration, accounting, and investor solutions, has been selected by Grandeur Peak Global Advisors to provide an enterprise-wide solution that includes middle office operations, as well as fund administration for private funds and mutual funds. As a result, Ultimus will be supporting the firm’s entire suite of…

Crestbridge, the UK-based administrator, has supported the launch and final close of Kreos Capital‘s latest flagship venture debt fund. Crestbridge provided a full suite of fund administration, governance and compliance services across its Jersey, UK and Luxembourg teams. With secured commitments of EUR1.25bn (USD1.4bn), Kreos provides debt solutions to high-growth companies primarily in the technology…

Harbor Capital Advisors, the U.S.-based ETF manager with USD45bn AuM, has selected SS&C‘s front-to-back investment management platform for the recently launched Harbor Multi-Asset Explorer ETF. Harbor Capital already uses Eze OMS for trading and has upgraded to a front-to-back solution with the addition of SS&C Geneva for fund accounting and daily operational support for certain…

IQ-EQ, the Luxembourg-based administrator, has been appointed by Allianz Global Investors as the ManCo for its EUR256m (USD280m) debt fund, created to finance the French rail company SPL Grand Est Mobilités in the development of railway services across the Grand Est region. IQ-EQ is acting as third-party AIFM for the fonds commun de titrisation (FCT)…

iCapital, the fintech platform supporting access to alternative investments for the wealth management industry, has partnered with IQ-EQ to establish a new series of French-domiciled funds. iCapital appointed IQ-EQ’s Paris-based team to provide fund administration services and to act as AIFM for iCapital funds that will be launched through the partnership and made available on…

Waverton Investment Management, a UK-based manager with GBP9.1bn (USD11.6bn) AuM, has appointed Northern Trust to provide outsourced trading services through its Integrated Trading Solutions business. Northern Trust will cover equities, derivatives and fixed income assets as Waverton’s sole provider of trading services. The appointment followed a review by Waverton of its operating model intended to…