Tim Haywood, Investment Director at Augustus Asset Managers Ltd (a subsidiary of GAM), investment advisor to three of the four Julius Baer Absolute Return Bond Funds, examines the outlook for investments in government securities. Investors in government bonds face a difficult year due to increased risks and concerns over the
NetWitness, a provider of threat intelligence and real-time network forensics solutions, has received an investment from growth equity investor Summit Partners. The investment will be used to fund additional technology acquisitions and other initiatives related to the company’s network security technology. The announcement comes one week after NetWitness released its
Private equity firm Equity Resource Investments has raised over USD37m for its latest real estate private equity fund. Equity Resource Fund 2009 will invest in all classes of real estate, primarily through acquisition of fractional equity interests, direct real estate investments, joint venture participations, merger transactions, and other opportunistic investments
TA Associates, a growth private equity firm, has made a minority investment of USD45m in Micromax Informatics, a mobile handset provider in India. Founded in 2000 as a telecom equipment distributor, Micromax entered the mobile handset market in April 2008. Micromax is now the third largest handset provider in India,
Global Investment House has obtained approval from its shareholders to transfer its principal investment assets and real estate investment properties to the Global Macro Fund and Real Estate Holdco respectively. Both the Global Macro Fund and the Real Estate Holdco are wholly owned subsidiaries of Global. The shareholders’ approval was
Private equity firm The Carlyle Group has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Financial Work on the formation of an RMB-denominated fund in Beijing. The Carlyle Asia Partners RMB Fund will be registered in Beijing and the Beijing Municipal Government will provide full support to
JHP Group, one of the UK’s largest private sector providers of vocational education, skills training and employability programmes, has been bought by its management team in a transaction backed by private equity firm LDC and Yorkshire Bank. Founded by Hugh Pitman in 1983, Coventry-based JHP operates a national network of
Maranon Capital has led a USD19.5m mezzanine debt investment to support the recapitalization of PathGroup and its subsidiaries in a transaction initiated by Primus Capital Funds. Maranon has also provided USD10m of revolving credit and term debt as a participant in a senior credit facility. PathGroup and its subsidiaries provide
The office of the National Development and Reform Commission of China approved applications for the record from 13 venture investment management enterprises in December 2009, including Qianxin Culture & Investment Management. This is the third batch of enterprises receiving approval for the record from the NDRC following CDH Investments (Tianjin)
Private equity firms invested USD1,392m over 84 deals in India during Q4 2009, taking the annual investment numbers to USD3,824m over 232 deals, according to a study by Venture Intelligence. The amount invested during 2009 was significantly less than that during the previous year during which PE firms invested USD10,468m
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