Personal Finance is proud to introduce its new data partners for the upcoming 2025 Raging Bull Awards at the end of January. The awards showcase outstanding performance in the collective investment schemes industry, recognising funds and managers that consistently outperform their peers, and thus giving consumers a reliable reference for choosing investments with confidence.
Two respected and innovative global financial services firms, Iress and Apex Group, have partnered with Personal Finance to provide the market data and calculations to determine the Raging Bull Award certificate and trophy winners, ensuring the awards continue to enjoy their long-standing credibility and prestige in the South African investment industry.
Iress
Iress South Africa is part of an international group based in Melbourne, Australia, that provides market data and wealth management software to the financial services industry. The group has offices in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Tunisia and the UK.
More than 12,000 institutional, retail, and online traders around the world use Iress's trading and market data software to connect across multiple markets, monitor and manage risk, access end-to-end trading support, and deliver better performance.
For over 20 years Iress’s software has been the cornerstone of seamless transactions across diverse funds and asset classes, including equities, fixed income, derivatives, and forex. The software is widely used by buy-side firms – those that buy securities on behalf of investors, such as asset managers – and sell-side firms, which facilitate selling transactions, such as investment banks. Today, Iress serves all institutional sell-side firms and the majority of buy-side firms in South Africa.
Stuart Campbell, commercial head of Iress SA, said: “Iress SA is thrilled to announce its partnership with Apex as the official data provider for the esteemed Raging Bull Awards. The collaboration reflects our dedication to empowering the financial community with cutting-edge technology and data solutions and underscores Iress’s commitment to excellence in the financial services industry and highlights its focus on supporting the asset management sector.”
Apex Group
Apex Group is dedicated to driving positive change in financial services while fueling the growth and ambitions of asset managers, allocators, financial institutions, and family offices. Established in Bermuda in 2003, the group has continually disrupted the asset servicing industry through its investment in innovation and talent. Today, Apex Group sets the pace in asset servicing and stands out for its unique single-source solution and unified cross-asset-class platform which supports the entire value chain, harnesses leading innovative technology, and benefits from cross-jurisdictional expertise delivered by a long-standing management team and over 13 000 highly integrated professionals.
Apex Group leads the asset servicing industry with a broad range of services, including capital raising, business and corporate management, fund and investor administration, portfolio and investment administration, ESG, capital markets, and transaction support. These services are tailored to each client and are delivered both at the Group level and via specialist subsidiary brands.
Andre le Roux, Apex Group regional head of sales for the Middle East, Mauritius, and Africa, said: “Apex Group is proud to be involved as the calculating agent of the awards. We will be collaborating with our intra-group company Clarus Risk in producing the necessary performance and risk-adjusted performance to back the Raging Bull Awards issued across award categories, including the Manager of the Year Award”.
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