Category: Independents

Apex Group Ltd., the Bermuda-based financial services provider, has announced plans to acquire FundRock Management Company SA and FundRock Partners Ltd. Upon completion of the transaction, Apex would reach close to USD1trn in combined assets across administration, custody, depositary and management. FundRock is the largest third-party manager of UCITS funds in Luxembourg. Terms of the…

The Nottingham Company, Inc., a U.S.-based fund services administrator and private label issuer to the mutual fund and ETF industry, has expanded its active non-transparent ETF offering with the SEC’s approval of the firm’s short-form exemptive relief application for the New York Stock Exchange’s Actively Managed Solution ETF structure. This is the second such announcement…

Carne Group, the Ireland-based service provider to the asset management industry, has appointed Dai Kazamatsuri as lead director for Carne Japan with responsibility for Carne’s Japanese clients and Japanese business development. He joins Carne from Mizuho Trust & Banking’s Luxembourg subsidiary, where he spent ten years in senior roles leading business planning and development.

Link Administration Holdings Limited, the Australian administrator, has received a conditional, nonbinding indicative proposal from a consortium including Pacific Equity Partners, Carlyle Group and their affiliates to acquire 100pct of the shares. The indicative cash price offered to shareholders under the proposal is AUD5.20 per share. Perpetual, which currently holds 9.65pct of Link Group, has…