Category: Mandates

Apex has been appointed by BGF, a UK-based growth capital investor, to provide ESG ratings & advisory services for over 230 companies in its portfolio. Apex’s ESG Health Check is designed for minority equity, venture capital or credit investors who do not have a controlling stake in their private company investments but require a high…

Northern Trust has been appointed to provide global custody, fund accounting, depositary services and its outsourced trading service, Integrated Trading Solutions, to International Biotechnology Trust and its investment manager, SV Health Managers. Founded in 1994, International Biotechnology Trust is a UK investment trust that is traded on the London Stock Exchange. Its objective is to…

Sunibel Corporate Services, a Mauritius-based administrator, has selected the PFS-PAXUS fund administration system for its third-party fund administration business operations. Pacific Fund Systems, the provider of PFS-PAXUS, services a client base with more than USD1tn of assets. Sunibel offers fund administration services to alternative funds, including fund accounting, investor services, compliance and tax services. PFS-PAXUS…

Secfi, a U.S.-based employee equity planning and financing platform, has appointed SS&C to provide administration and fund accounting for its fund. In addition, SS&C’s Precision LM and TNR Solution will facilitate access for private company shareholders and employees looking for financing or liquidity for their employee stock options. SS&C will support the financing of pre-IPO…

Northern Trust has been selected by Wilmington Trust, N.A. to provide custody, fund accounting, fund administration, fund-of-fund administration, and transfer agency services for collective investment trust (CIT) funds with approximately USD90bn in total balances. Rob Barnett, EVP and head of intermediary sales at Wilmington Trust, said: “CITs continue to be an increasingly popular investment vehicle…

Apex has been appointed as administrator by 3iQ Digital Asset Management, Canada’s largest digital asset investment fund manager that offers investors investment products to gain exposure to digital assets. Founded in 2012, 3iQ is Canada’s largest digital asset investment fund manager with more than CAD1.8bn (USD1.4bn) AuM. New funds, 3iQ CoinShares Bitcoin Feeder ETF and…

NatWest Trustee and Depositary Services has been appointed as the UK depositary for JLEN Environmental Assets Group Limited. JLEN is a Guernsey incorporated, London listed investment company, managing a diversified portfolio of environmental infrastructure projects and assets in the UK and Europe, including wind, solar, hydro, anaerobic digestion, waste & wastewater, and other low carbon…

HSBC has been appointed by ETF Securities for middle office, custody and fund administration services for its range of equity products. ETF Securities is Australia’s oldest independent provider of ETFs and has maintained a track record of market innovation since launching the world’s first gold-backed ETF in 2003.

IQ-EQ, the Luxembourg-based investor services provider, has been appointed by central European real estate developer SITNO HOLDING Real Estate (SHRE) to provide support services for the launch of its first Luxembourg-domiciled real estate fund. The SHRE SITNO Adriatic Investment Fund, which is targeting a raise of EUR100m (USD107m), will invest in eight real estate development…