Independent fund and corporate services provider, the Aztec Group, has been appointed to provide administration services to VinaCapital’s Vietnam Opportunity Fund (VOF).
Established in 2003, VOF is a Guernsey-domiciled, closed-ended investment company listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange. With approximately USD1 billion in assets, VOF provides investors with access to the Vietnamese market across a range of sectors and asset classes, including listed and unlisted equity and private equity.
VOF’s objective is to achieve medium to long-term returns through investment in assets either in Vietnam or companies with a majority of their assets, operations, revenues or income in, or derived from, Vietnam.
From its offices in Guernsey, the Aztec Group will take on responsibility of the day-to-day operation of the fund, including its administration, company secretarial activities, and accounting and financial reporting, which will extend to the preparation and publication of weekly NAVs. As part of the arrangement, the Group will service over 30 of the fund’s subsidiaries in Singapore and the British Virgin Islands.
VOF will be administered by the Group’s specialist listed funds team in Guernsey, which manages over GBP6.5 billion in listed vehicles across the London, Irish and Channel Island Stock Exchanges. The team, which was named Guernsey Corporate Services Team of the Year in 2017 by the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, services a broad portfolio of listed investment companies spanning equity, private equity, real assets and private debt.
Gordon Purvis (pictured), Director and head of the Group’s listed funds team in Guernsey, says: “VOF is a successful fund that has expertly capitalised on the wealth of investment opportunities presented by Vietnam’s stellar economic growth. It is pleasing to see Guernsey maintain its appeal for listed fund mandates of this calibre and, of course, for us at the Aztec Group to be given the opportunity to demonstrate our expertise in this specialist area.”
Steve Bates, Non-Executive Chairman of VOF, says: “We appointed Aztec Group because it has created an outstanding listed funds platform built on industry-leading technology, combined with a high level of in-house specialist expertise and an extensive range of administration and accounting services. We are looking forward to seeing the benefits to our operations and to our shareholders of these enhanced capabilities and look forward to a long relationship with Aztec.”
