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Toni Pinkerton By Beverly Chandler, Opalesque London:

The increased participation of pension funds and other institutional investors in the alternatives space has given rise to a new client base for Maples Fund Services. Toni Pinkerton, Global Head of Fund Services at Maples, explains the growing pressure that the needs of these institutional investors have placed on their fund managers to operate within more sophisticated operating risk frameworks. A divergence from traditional hedge fund investments into separately managed accounts by this same class of investors, also places similar demands on their own internal infrastructure. Both of these trends, along side unprecedented change driven by global financial regulators, are driving administrators to build on traditional net asset value reporting capabilities and become critical partners in the investment process.

At Maples Fund Services, which operates across the globe from the Cayman Islands, Dubai, Dublin, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Montreal and New York, middle office outsourcing services run alongside the original business of traditional fund administration. As the global head of Maples Fund Services, Pinkerton gets a grandstand view of what is happening in the hedge fund world, offshore and onshore.

"Regulatory change is having a tremendous impact" she says. "But this parallel evolution of the investor landscape is having an equal, if not greater, effect on the industry." This new breed of hedge fund i......................

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