Turner Investments has launched a new investment strategy – Turner/TomorrowVentures Genesis Equity. Turner Investments serves as the investment adviser for the strategy; TomorrowVentures will provide research for the strategy’s private investments. Turner expects to invest up to half in private companies experiencing strong growth and not less than half
MMC Ventures has reopened the MMC Growth Generation Fund, which is structured specifically to provide a younger generation of investors with access to high growth companies, EIS tax benefits and the opportunity to build long term capital gains. MMC hosted an event last night aimed at giving young people the
AGF Management and Instar Group have launched InstarAGF Asset Management, a joint venture that providing institutional investors with access to infrastructure investment opportunities. Based in Toronto and led by Gregory Smith, a pioneer in the infrastructure investment community, the new company will invest in and manage a range of alternative
Rothschild Merchant Banking arm has completed the final closing of Oberon Credit Investment Fund I, its European secured credit fund. Rothschild worked with Key Capital to place this unlevered six-year closed end fund. The Oberon fund is an actively managed credit fund invested in a diversified portfolio of secured
As the initial problems of ‘Obamacare’ are ironed out, Simon Laing, Head of US Equities at Invesco Perpetual, looks at the effect this may have on the US healthcare sector in 2014… Obamacare is the informal name that has been given to the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act that
Aldermore has raised GBP40m of new capital from institutional investors Toscafund and Lansdowne Partners. The new funding was initiated and managed by its founding sponsor, AnaCap Financial Partners. The new funds will enable Aldermore to continue to meet the demand for its accounts and services from both retail customers
Major institutional investors are poised to increase their allocations to alternative investments, with a bias towards real estate and real assets, during 2014, according to a survey by BlackRock. Approximately half of institutions surveyed – 49 per cent – expect to increase their real estate allocation and over 40 per
Portfolio Advisors (PA) has held the final closing of its globally diversified private equity secondary fund, Portfolio Advisors Secondary Fund II (PASF II), with total commitments of USD910m. Limited partners include private and public pension plans, university endowments, private foundations, insurance companies, family offices and high net worth individuals.
Small and mid-cap fund managers are looking to invest in under-valued companies with good fundamentals, recurring revenues, a good management team and a sustainable competitive position in 2014. That is according to research carried out by Baker Tilly and the Quoted Companies Alliance. The Small and Mid-Cap Investors Survey
Rob Smith, Manager of the German Growth Trust at Barings, comments on the latest GDP figures from Germany… When it comes to Germany, given the huge trade flows that influence the GDP numbers, it would not be advisable to extrapolate a trend from just a couple of quarters. All other
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