Voting is closing soon for the Private Equity Wire UK & Europe Awards 2014, which will be presented at an awards lunch in London at the end of March 2014. Please make your nominations by completing this survey. Uniquely, our awards are based on a 'peer review system' whereby our
Private equity fund managers believe pricing will be their most significant challenge in 2014, according to the fifth annual PErspective private equity study by BDO USA. When asked to rank the challenges private equity firms will face in the coming year, 39 per cent of fund managers cite pricing as
Construction has been completed at three solar farms in Southwest England owned by investors in the first Ingenious Renewable Energy EIS Fund. The Ingenious Renewable Energy EIS Fund raised GBP31m in 2013. Around 85 per cent of the fund has been deployed so far, with close to half of
The ALPS | Red Rocks Listed Private Equity Fund (LPEFX) saw returns of 41.26 per cent in 2013, outpacing the S&P 500 and other benchmarks, as firms sold assets and completed initial public offerings (IPOs) for their portfolio companies at a record pace. Fuelled by strong returns and a vigorous
HarbourVest Private Equity’s (HVPE) estimated NAV per share was USD13.81 at the end of January, a USD0.04 per share decrease from the 31 December 2013 estimate of USD13.85 and a USD1.35 per share (11 per cent) increase during the financial year ended 31 January 2014. The monthly change was driven
Businesses are hesitant about adopting integrated reporting (IR) with the majority taking a “wait and see” approach, according to research from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). Chief financial officers and other senior finance professionals told ACCA that while they had yet to adopt IR many of them planned
The highest economic growth experienced in the UK economy since 2007, combined with rising deal volumes in Q4 2013, have seen multiples paid by private companies surge 30 per cent year on year, according to BDO’s latest Private Company Price Index/Private Equity Price Index (PCPI/PEPI). While Q4 2013 has been
Private equity co-investment programmes will continue to grow in popularity but investors face significant downside risk if they are poorly executed, according to Altius Associates’ annual survey. In Europe, the report – The Key Challenges facing the private equity sector in 2014 – cites one of the key challenges as
Pine Brook, a New York-based investment firm focused on building businesses in the financial services and energy sectors, has closed its second fund, Pine Brook Capital Partners II. With total capital commitments of USD2.43bn, the fund exceeded the firm's target of USD2bn. Fund II has made five investments to
Smart beta investing, efficient risk diversification, liability driven investment (LDI) strategies, infrastructure and fixed income investing are among the topics to be presented at the EDHEC-Risk Days Europe 2014. The event will take place at The Mermaid Conference & Events Centre in Blackfriars, London on 25-26 March. The conference
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