Category: Mandates

Forstrong Global, the Canada-based asset manager, has appointed CIBC Mellon to provide asset servicing and digital solutions, including custody, accounting, recordkeeping, securities lending, financial statement preparation, investment data access and tax reporting. Established in 2001, Forstrong runs actively managed ETFs to capitalise on macroeconomic, geopolitical and other world trends for some of Canada’s largest financial…

Mainspring, the UK-based administrator, has been awarded an additional mandate by Notion Capital, the VC firm focused on European SaaS and cloud investments. Mainspring will provide custody services for Notion’s Fund III, including sub-custody services for the fund’s depositary. Mainspring has been working with Notion for five years.

Apex has been appointed by OurCrowd, a global venture capital investment platform, to provide fund services. Formed in 2013, OurCrowd is Israel’s most active venture capital firm, having deployed over USD1.8bn in committed capital to date. Apex will provide fund administration, transfer agency and custody services to OC50, a recently launched global VC fund.

Russell Investments has appointed Carne Group as third-party management company for 11 Russell umbrella funds, covering USD32.5bn AuM across 76 active sub-funds, said to be the world’s largest ManCo outsourcing deal to date, as measured by AuM. The funds are domiciled in Ireland and distributed globally. Russell Investments is a U.S.-based provider of investment solutions…

Equity Trustees, the Australia-based provider of administration services, has been appointed responsible entity (trustee) and custodian for the Metrics Direct Income Fund, managed by Metrics Credit Partners, an Australian non-bank corporate lender and alternative asset manager specialising in origination and active management of private debt portfolios. The fund seeks to provide monthly cash income, capital…

Apex has been appointed by Perennial Partners to provide fund administration services to Perennial Private Ventures Fund. The fund is aiming to raise AUD200m (USD145m) to invest in high growth private businesses. The launch of the fund follows the success of Perennial’s three existing private to public fund strategies – also administered by Apex –…

Apex has been appointed by New Forests to provide fund services to Tropical Asia Forest Fund 2 (TAFF2). New Forests, an Australia-based investment manager of nature-based real assets and natural capital strategies, has AUD7.8bn (USD5.8bn) AuM across 1.1 million hectares (2.7 million acres) of investments. New Forests announced the first close of TAFF2 with USD120m…