Link Fund Solutions partners with market leader for Fund Oversight

17 January 2023

Client Update

Milestone Group, the global provider of Oversight and Backup NAV solutions to the investment management industry, has announced that the UK's largest independent Authorised Corporate Director (ACD), Link Fund Solutions, will adopt its pControl™ Oversight platform.

pControl Oversight will allow Link Fund Solutions (LFS) to independently verify NAVs received from its fund administrators and to mitigate a range of risks.

LFS’ decision to subscribe to pControl Oversight comes at a time of new operational resilience requirements for financial services businesses in the UK and Ireland, with firms needing to demonstrate compliance with new operational resilience mandates, such as those outlined in the BoE Consultation papers: Operational Resilience of FMIs, by 2025. 

pControl Oversight is aimed at ensuring investors and the market are not impacted by operational failures at any stage of the value chain and will replace LFS’ existing oversight practices, freeing up valuable time, and provide robust data to underwrite all necessary reporting.  

Gordon Thomson, Head of Operational Oversight at Link Fund Solutions, commented: “We’re always keeping an eye out for new technologies that will make the extensive process of monitoring, reporting and data validation more efficient.  Milestone Group provides the ability to validate all the net asset value calculations, with pControl Oversight, coordinating all our data into a single view. The added benefit of being able to create our own shadow NAV enhances our operational resiliency supporting the needs of our investors and the market.

“As one of the largest ACDs and ManCos in Europe, we strive to protect investors’ interests and make operations as smooth as possible. pControl Oversight will support us in maintaining this.”

The multi-phase rollout will see pControl Oversight implemented across LFS’ UK investment vehicles, followed by Ireland and Luxembourg over the coming year, and will support LFS’ plans for international growth, with a platform tailored for multiple jurisdictions.  

Geoff Hodge, President of Milestone Group, added: “We are delighted to be working with LFS in this important area as we see ManCos becoming more sophisticated in the oversight of investment companies as their responsibilities become increasingly complex and time-consuming in satisfying regulatory and market expectations across jurisdictions.”

pControl™ currently supports some USD 30 trillion of assets, undertaking mission-critical functions with users in 15 countries, including some of the world’s most sophisticated asset allocators, asset managers, asset owners, fund administrators and ManCos.
 

About Link Fund Solutions 

Link GroupLink Fund Solutions is an independent provider of Authorised Fund Manager (AFM) services for £125bn of UK, Ireland and Luxembourg regulated funds with over 40 years’ experience of regulatory and administrative services including the establishment and ongoing servicing of the funds, working in partnership with investment managers, wealth managers, boutiques and sponsors. 

For more information visit www.linkfundsolutions.co.uk 

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About Milestone Group

Milestone GroupMilestone Group, a Bank of New York Mellon company, is a Fintech provider to the global funds industry, with a focus on managed funds and complex fund of funds via its pControl™ investment platform. Milestone Group services some of the world’s most sophisticated Asset Allocators, Asset Managers, Asset Owners, and Fund Administrators.

Milestone Group’s pControl™ platform currently supports some USD30 trillion of assets undertaking mission-critical functions with users in 15 countries.

For more information visit www.milestonegroup.com 

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