Category: Mandates

Northern Trust has been selected by South Shore Regional Centre for Education (SSRCE) and Tri-County Regional Centre for Education (TCRCE), to provide custody and benefit payment services for their CUPE (Canadian Union of Public Employees) Staff and Support Staff defined benefit pension plans. SSRCE is the public-school board for Lunenburg County and Queens County in…

Apex has been appointed as administrator for NewVest’s inaugural Private Equity 50 Index Fund. U.S.-based NewVest is an institutional, tech-enabled platform of index funds designed to provide investors with diversified, passive exposure to private markets in the same way that ETFs and index funds provide passive exposure to public markets. Apex will provide fund administration,…

Northleaf Capital Partners, a Canadian private markets investment firm with USD22bn in capital commitments, has selected Equity Trustees to be the trustee and custodian of its senior private credit fund, NSPC AUD Investor Trust. NSPC Australia is an Australian-domiciled unit trust which is available to Australian wholesale investors; the fund invests directly in Northleaf Senior…

EFA, the Luxembourg-based administrator owned by Universal Investment, has been appointed by Tygrow to provide administration and accounting for its funds. To date, four private equity and real estate funds with more than 100 investors have been launched by Tygrow, valued by EFA. Tygrow is an independent management company based in France.

Singlife, the Singapore-based financial services provider, has appointed Citi and BlackRock Aladdin to provide a technology platform to unify its asset management capabilities across its front, middle and back-office. The selection process began with a tender for 11 different front-office and back-office partners, with a total of 28 different combinations assessed. The final selection was…

Redwheel, a UK-based asset manager with c. USD19bn AuM, has adopted the data aggregation tool developed by Equity Data Science to enhance ESG integration across its investment business. Northern Trust took a stake in EDS in 2021 and jointly launched an ESG workflow solution that allows investors to access and share ESG information. The data…

RBC Investor & Treasury Services has been appointed as custodian and fund administrator for three Mulvihill Capital Management ETFs trading on the TSX: Mulvihill Canadian Bank Enhanced Yield ETF, Mulvihill Premium Yield Fund ETF, and Mulvihill U.S. Health Care Enhanced Yield ETF. Mulvihill, a Toronto-based wealth management firm, is a recent entrant to the ETF…

As part of its new real estate investment management business, Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG (pbb) will work with Universal Investment as a fund service platform provider. Universal Investment will launch and administer the planned open-ended real estate special fund, which will focus on German office properties and mixed-use properties. Deutsche Pfandbriefbank is a specialist bank for…