Caledonian Continues Its Aggressive Move into Fund Administration by Teaming with Paladyne Systems.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Paladyne Systems, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control today announced that it has licensed its PALADYNE(TM) product suite to Caledonian Fund Services, a global provider of fund administration services. Caledonian will use the front- and middle-office tools within the PALADYNE suite in combination with their existing portfolio accounting system, Advent Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva. (R) to streamline operations and to significantly expand their technology and client service offering. Caledonian will implement PALADYNE ASP, a fully-hosted application service provider solution, and will access the platform remotely from each of its global office locations. By leveraging PALADYNE ASP, Caledonian may expand their service offering by providing direct client access to the PALADYNE product suite including order management, real-time PNL PNL Panel PNL Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (usually seen as PNNL; Richland, WA) PNL Partidul National Liberal (National Liberal Party, Romania) PNL Programación Neuro Lingüistica and portfolio management, custom reporting, data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse and analytics, and client relationship management. PALADYNE ASP solution is a fully hosted, all inclusive offering including software, hardware, database maintenance, and IT and disaster recovery services. "It was clear to us that the combination of Paladyne's products and Advent Geneva provides us with a leading technology platform in the fund administration industry," said Ali Mudeen, Director of Caledonian Fund Services. "The tight integration of PALADYNE and Geneva allows us to scale our business significantly with our existing staff levels while improving the overall timeliness and scope of our services offering." Caledonian began their aggressive focus on fund administration services by acquiring Advent Geneva as their global portfolio accounting platform. As a follow-up, Caledonian expanded its U.S. operations earlier this year by launching Caledonian Fund Services (USA) LLC, a provider of onshore fund administration and tax consulting services Noun 1. consulting service - service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services" to hedge funds hedge fund, in finance, a highly speculative, largely unregulated investment device. Originating in the 1950s, the funds "hedge" by offsetting "short" positions (borrowing a security and then selling it at a higher price before repaying the lender) against "long" and fund of funds Fund of Funds A mutual fund that invests in other mutual funds. Notes: For example, an investor would select a general risk profile and the fund-of-funds manager would pick underlying investments from a range of products managed by external managers. . With its latest acquisition of the PALADYNE product suite, Caledonian has created a world-class front- to back-office technology infrastructure capable of servicing hedge funds of any size or complexity from start-ups to multi-strategy global institutions. The integration of PALADYNE with Advent Geneva will allow Caledonian to streamline operations, improve the timeliness and accuracy of information, and expand the overall scope of services available to their clients. "We are very excited to partner with an aggressive, technology savvy fund administrator like Caledonian," said Sameer Shalaby, Chief Executive Officer of Paladyne Systems. "With a fully integrated front- to back-office platform which may be offered directly to their customers, Caledonian is well positioned to become a leading technology-driven fund administrator." The PALADYNE suite includes the following modules: --Paladyne Portfolio Master(TM) - provides order management and allocation, portfolio management, real-time P&L, and strategy-based performance tracking. --Paladyne Portfolio Analytics(TM) - provides portfolio analytics, data aggregation, and custom reporting tools. --Paladyne Security Master(TM) - provides a centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. terms and conditions repository and distribution engine with real-time updates and corporate action alerts. --Paladyne Price Master(TM) - provides automated collection, storage, and analysis of prices and market data from any third-party sources. --Paladyne Client Master(TM) - provides complete client relationship management including website integration and reporting. The PALADYNE suite is available either as a fully hosted ASP solution or as a local installation. ABOUT CALEDONIAN Caledonian Fund Services Ltd. (www.caledonian.com) offers fund accounting, registrar and transfer agency, corporate secretarial, web-based reporting, anti-money laundering Anti-money laundering ("AML") is a term mainly used in the financial and legal industries to describe the legal controls that require financial institutions and other regulated entities to prevent or report money laundering activities. compliance and fund of fund custody services to offshore funds from its offices in the Cayman Islands Cayman Islands (kā`mən), British dependency (2005 est. pop. 44,300), 100 sq mi (259 sq km), comprising three islands in the West Indies. and the Isle of Man Noun 1. Isle of Man - one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea Man British Isles - Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic . Caledonian Fund Services (USA) LLC provides US onshore fund administration and tax consulting from its Chicago office location, while Caledonian Bank & Trust Limited provides banking facilities from its head office in the Cayman Islands. The Caledonian Group has a staff of over 135 and is headquartered in the Cayman Islands. With over 35 years of experience in the financial industry and with offices in the Cayman Islands, Isle of Man, Chicago, New York and BVI, the Caledonian Group's expansive jurisdictional reach enables efficient handling of European, Asian and North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. clients. ABOUT PALADYNE SYSTEMS Paladyne Systems LLC, (www.paladynesys.com) a leading solutions provider for the hedge fund industry, develops and distributes technology designed to streamline hedge fund operations while providing business efficiency and cost savings throughout the organization. Paladyne offers a fully-hosted technology platform known as the PALADYNE(TM) suite which is capable of supporting the front- to back-office requirements of today's most comprehensive hedge funds. The PALADYNE(TM) suite is an integrated set of applications including: order management, portfolio management, portfolio accounting, global security master, analytics toolset, comprehensive portfolio pricing, custom reporting, and customer relationship management. Paladyne was formed through an acquisition of its technology platform from a large US-based multi-strategy hedge fund. |
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