Sterling Trust, a custodian of alternative assets, has completed a name change to Equity Institutional, a Division of Equity Trust Company. As a result of growth and the 2009 acquisition of Sterling Trust, Equity Trust Company has more than doubled in size in the last few years and now
Several major private equity firms have formed a global industry alliance called the AltExchange Alliance. The AltExchange Alliance has launched the private equity industry’s first comprehensive standard for data formats. The common format defined by this new standard aims to transform the way general partners, limited partners, fund
Kohlberg & Company, a private equity firm specialising in middle market investing, has held the final closing of its seventh private equity fund, Kohlberg Investors VII with USD1.6bn in commitments from its investors. The fund surpassed its USD1.5bn target, closing at its “hard cap” due to strong support from
Crestline Investors, an institutional alternative investment manager, has partnered with Kirchner Group to launch a new business unit on the Crestline platform. The Kirchner team will be the cornerstone of this initiative, called Crestline-Kirchner Private Equity Group, focused on acquiring, managing and investing in underperforming private equity assets, portfolios
Prospects are clouded for Cyprus as a domicile for investment and transaction structures set up by entrepreneurs and investors from Russia and other eastern European countries such as Ukraine following a levy on bank deposits and capital controls imposed by the government as part of a package of measures to
Joel Copp-Barton, European Equities Product Director at Invesco Perpetual, shares his views on Europe’s recovery… Recent Purchasing Managers Index data is questioning the speed at which Europe can recover. The uncertainty caused by Italy failing to elect a government and the impact on short term confidence from the prolonged Cyprus
HarbourVest Global Private Equity, a closed-end investment company, has extended its multi-currency credit facility with LloydsTSB Bank. The company’s existing USD500m credit facility expires in December 2014. HVPE has refinanced the credit facility, which will remain at USD500m until December 2014 and reduce to USD300m thereafter. The new
Second Alpha Partners, a private equity firm focused on secondary investments, has formed Second Alpha Partners I to manage the portfolio assets of venture capital firm Dolphin Equity Partners. In 2012, the former limited partners of the Dolphin Equity funds sold a substantial portion of their interests to an
Keith Wade, Chief Economist at Schroders, looks beyond the near term cyclical challenges and considers what the Eurozone needs to do to ensure its long term viability… Divergence rather than convergence • One of the fault lines to address was predicted before the single currency even started and is the
A total of USD69.3bn was raised globally in Q1 2013 by 130 private equity funds across all strategies, according to Private Equity International (PEI). The figure is roughly in line with fundraising totals for 2012 – on average USD73.7bn was raised in each quarter in the year – but represents
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