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SunGard supports Gemini hedge business
19 February 2014 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Gemini Hedge Fund Services has chosen SunGard’s Hedge360, a back-office hedge fund investment management application suite, as its platform of choice...

SGSS plays on the Ivory Coast
19 February 2014 Ivory Coast
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has teamed up with one of its subsidiaries to offer securities services in the Ivory Coast...

Investment risk becomes more of an issue
18 February 2014 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Institutional investors expect risk management to play an even greater role in the investment decision process in the future, according to a new study by BNY Mellon and Nobel Prize-winning economist Dr. Harry Markowitz...

Industry predicts AIFMD sluggishness
18 February 2014 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

More than half of fund managers, prospective clients and consultants attending a seminar on AIFMD said they believed investors would still not be engaged in AIFMD considerations by December 2015.??...

TMF Group takes over Custom House
17 February 2014 Malta
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

TMF Group has acquired 49 percent and become the sole owner of Custom House Global Fund Services. The transaction is subject to regulatory clearance, but is expected to be completed by June 2014...

JTC outsources for blossoming fund admin
17 February 2014 The Channel Islands
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Fund administrator JTC Group has chosen eFront to support the continuing expansion of its business portfolio...

Revel Wood is new CEO of RBS Luxembourg SA
17 February 2014 Luxembourg
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has hired Revel Wood as CEO of RBS (Luxembourg) SA, its Luxembourg-domiciled management company and fund governance business...

ESMA extends its EMIR Q+A, to general irritation
14 February 2014 Brussels
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has updated its Q&A to address concerns over the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR), despite those in the industry saying that the update has come too late...

Lyxor AM's CEO is latest exec to depart
14 February 2014 Paris
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Lyxor Asset Management has appointed Lionel Paquin as its CEO to replace Inès de Dinechin, who is leaving the group...

HSBC scores Cornwall pension fund mandate
13 February 2014 Cornwall
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

HSBC Global Asset Management has been chosen as one of two managers to collectively manage £60 million in active frontier market equities, on behalf of the £1.4 billion Cornwall Pension Fund and its members...

Milestone signs Oppenheimer into NAV solution
13 February 2014 Boston
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

OppenheimerFunds has selected Milestone Group’s NAV oversight solution to automate in-house verification of outsourced fund processing functions...

Ex-Goldman’s Jim O’Neill to speak at Guernsey forum
12 February 2014 Guernsey
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Leading economist and creator of the ‘BRICs’ acronym Jim O’Neill will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Guernsey Funds Forum in London...