Alter Domus has been appointed as administrator to the Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Investment Solutions (MIDIS) inflation-linked infrastructure debt fund. 

The fund - which attracted total commitments of almost £740 million at final close - will focus on investment in investment grade, inflation-linked debt of infrastructure borrowers in the UK. 

It will aim to make investments in borrowers who provide essential services to the community such as gas, electricity, water, transportation and waste disposal as inflation-linked revenue streams are more common in these infrastructure sub-sectors.

CACEIS has been appointed by the Advenis Investment Managers management company (the entity previously known as Avenir Finance Investment Managers) to provide account-keeping/custody and depositary services for its entire fund range. 

Northern Trust has won a mandate from Muscat Capital, the Saudi Arabia-based investment banking arm of Bank Muscat, the largest commercial bank in Oman. 

Mutuelle du Personnel IBM (IBM’s staff health insurance scheme) has asked CACEIS to meet its requirements for look-through reporting, data enrichment and calculation of the gross market SCR (solvency capital requirement) for portfolios already held under custody in light of the Solvency II reform, in effect from January 1 2016. 

JP Morgan Investor Services has been appointed as custodian of West Australia-based WA Super's investment portfolio.

BNY Mellon has been appointed as account bank for the Activate Capital lending platform (Activate Capital). 

A US subsidiary of Fiera Capital Corporation (Fiera Capital) has been retained by SEI, a global provider of investment processing, investment management, and investment operations solutions, to act as a sub-adviser for the newly created international equity collective investment trust (CIT) implemented through SEI Trust Company subsidiary.