Month: March 2023

Ultimus Fund Solutions has supported the transition of the James Advantage Funds’ fund administration functions from another provider. James Investment Research, the adviser to the James Advantage Funds, selected Ultimus as the fund administrator for its four mutual funds. Ultimus is now providing services encompassing financial administration, legal administration, fund accounting, transfer agent, and distribution.

BNP Paribas’s securities services business has been mandated by Coöperatie Univé U.A., based in the Netherlands, to provide investment and financial administration, regulatory reporting and global custody services for its EUR1.3bn (USD1.4bn) of global assets. Univé is a cooperative insurance company offering auto, home and health insurances to its 1.6 million members.

Apex has launched an ESG data as a service platform for the private markets. Apex has been collecting, verifying and examining private market ESG data from more than 400 GPs, and 1,500 portfolio companies in more than 45 countries since 2019, compiling a proprietary and verified ESG database for benchmarking performance. The database will include…