Eagle Asset Management, a St. Petersburg, Fla-based institutional and retail asset management has tapped the Dimension investment management system from SimCorp to replace multiple proprietary investment accounting, performance and clent reporting systems.

Fleming Family & Partners (FF&P) Asset Management has appointed Societe Generale Securities Services Russia (ROSBANK) as Custodian (Depositary) and Investment Funds Trustee (Specialized Depositary). SGSS Russia will provide custody, fund trustee and transfer-agent services for the full range of local open-ended and closed-ended funds managed by FF&P AM in Russia.

State Street Corporation, one of the world’s leading providers of financial services to institutional investors, announced today that AU$18 billion Australian superannuation fund Sunsuper has appointed State Street Australia Limited as its custodian.

J.P. Morgan has expanded its Prime Custody service to make it available to hedge fund clients of its European Prime Brokerage business. 

China Construction Bank (CCB) has selected BNY Mellon as global custodian for a new qualified domestic institutional investor (QDII) fund in China launched by Fortune SG Fund Management Co. Ltd in September. CCB is the domestic custodian for this QDII fund in China.

Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has been named “Custodian of the Year for France” for a second consecutive year in the ICFA (International Custody and Fund Administration) European Custody and Fund Administration Awards 2011.

BNY Mellon has been jointly appointed with Nykredit, one of Denmark’s leading financial services groups, to provide global custody, fund administration and related services for Lønmodtagernes Dyrtidsfond’s (LD) professional investment fund assets, currently valued at DKK50 billion (US$10 billion).

BNY Mellon has been appointed by ContourGlobal as corporate trustee for the loan financing of its $142 million KivuWatt lakebed methane-to-power plant in Rwanda. ContourGlobal develops, acquires and operates electric-power and district-heating resources around the world and this financing is the largest single private investment in Rwanda’s history, and its first project financing initiative.