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Private markets and wealth management: a growing connection
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12 January 2012
By Naveed Ashraf: It has been rumoured for a long time but reports are emerging that the Saudi authorities will shortly announce that foreign investors will be able to buy stocks listed on the Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul All Share Index. This is a positive development for Apex’s clients
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29 November 2011
Peter Hughes, Owner of Apex Group, says, “I travel the world looking for fund managers that need quality fund administration. The negative sentiment we see on all the news channels is becoming so frequent that we are no longer listening and have become numb to it. It seems that nothing can be done in the short term to assist the recovery in the US and Europe. Decades of debt mismanagement locally and internationally have taken its toll.
16 October 2011
Peter Hughes, Owner of Apex Group, says, “We are in Chile this week at a family office conference. It’s not easy sitting through multiple presentations about investing globally especially when they are in Spanish and we don’t speak Spanish particularly fluently.
15 August 2011
Owner of Apex Group, Peter Hughes, says “It seems like we will not move back to a cyclical momentum in the markets for a while given the debt levels in the US and Europe.
14 June 2011
By Peter Hughes – In the wake of the financial crisis, the global alternative fund industry finds itself in a changed environment characterised by increased regulation and new investor demands in areas such as liquidity. As a result, the way in which managers operate and the kinds of domicile and investment structure they favour is evolving to enable them to flourish in this new climate – and service providers are having to adapt too.
10 March 2011
Peter Hughes, Owner of Apex Group says, “I wrote a while ago that the issues Egypt faced were different to those in most MENA countries as most countries were more affluent. How wrong I was!
03 March 2011
06 February 2011
Peter Hughes writes: In positioning Apex offices in the places where fund administration is still a young industry we get first mover advantage. This isn’t easy, as these places are hard to find, their financial infrastructure is still being developed and some don’t yet realise the importance of independent valuations for the development of a financial services industry.
03 February 2011
Peter Hughes, Chairman and Founder of Apex Fund Services says, “Here at the World Trade Centre Moscow event, where Troika Dialog royally celebrated with over 2,000 delegates its 20th birthday and sale to one of Russia’s largest banks, is a reminder of what the country has achieved in such a short period of time.
