Apex has been appointed by Compass Group LLC, an independent Latin American asset manager, for fund administration, depositary, and corporate services. Founded in New York in 1995, Compass Group has a team of more than 300 professionals located in nine different offices across Latin America, managing, advising, and providing distribution services for >USD41bn AuM.
Category: Mandates
RailField appoints Apex as administrator
Apex has been appointed to provide fund administration, investor reporting and investor portal services to RailField Partners, a multifamily investment and asset management firm. Apex will support RailField’s fund accounting needs for its first institutional LP funds. Based in the U.S., RailField has partnerships with a wide range of investors including family offices, pension funds…
Adams Street deploys Apex ESG solution
Adams Street Partners, a U.S.-based private markets investment firm with >USD49bn AuM, has deployed a real-time ESG data analytics solution from Apex to provide insights into underlying fund and private company investments. The Apex analytics platform securely processes a variety of ESG data streams to provide tailored insights during investment and operational due diligence. Adams…
SGSS supports BTC ETF launched by Melanion Capital
Melanion Capital, a French asset management company regulated by the AMF, has launched a bitcoin ETF under the UCITS banner. The Melanion BTC Equities Universe UCITS ETF was launched on Euronext in October 2021 Melanion worked with SGSS throughout the planning and product design phase, which took two years, and subsequently appointed the bank as…
Citi wins lion’s share of BlackRock’s iShares rebalancing
Citi has emerged as the major winner in BlackRock’s rebalancing of its provider panel for the USD2.3trn iShares’ assets in U.S.-domiciled ETFs. The decision is the culmination of a nearly two year-long due diligence process with the selection of four of the leading custody banks to support the growth of U.S. iShares ETFs and strengthen…
BlueBox appoints Northern Trust for USD1bn Lux SICAV
Northern Trust has been appointed to provide fund administration, depositary, global custody and its Integrated Trading Solutions (ITS) to BlueBox Asset Management’s Luxembourg-domiciled BlueBox Global Technology Fund. Headquartered in Switzerland, BlueBox Asset Management was established in 2017. Its BlueBox Global Technology Fund (SICAV) has grown assets under management to more than USD1bn. The fund invests…
Omba mandates Northern Trust for new ICAV
Omba Investments ICAV has appointed Northern Trust to provide global custody, depositary and associated services for its new Ireland-domiciled UCITS umbrella fund. The planned USD100m fund will be launched with two new UCITS funds, the Omba Global Thematic Fund and Omba Global Equity Fund. Omba Advisory & Investments is a UK-based manager serving family offices,…
FINBOURNE wins another major IBOR mandate
Railpen, one of the UK’s largest pension funds with c. GBP35bn AuM, has selected FINBOURNE’s cloud-based investment data management platform, LUSID, as its IBOR solution. LUSID will support Railpen’s multi-asset portfolios with standardised data and an aggregated view of positions and exposure. The mandate follows the recent decision by UK-based Baillie Gifford, the GBP352bn asset…
Apex to service Azimut’s life insurance company
Apex has been appointed to provide fund administration and middle office services to Azimut Life dac, the Ireland-registered life insurance company of Azimut Group, an Italy-based independent asset management firm with >EUR80bn (USD91bn) AuM.
Zodia and Northern Trust to support Invesco’s new Bitcoin ETP
Invesco, the U.S.-based asset manager with USD1.5trn AuM, has launched a Bitcoin ETP on Xetra that is aimed sophisticated investors looking to gain exposure to the cryptocurrency. The Invesco Physical Bitcoin ETP will be 100pct backed by holdings in the underlying digital assets, with the aim of delivering the price performance of Bitcoin, less a…