Institutional investors in Europe plan to reallocate their portfolios in the next 12 months adding equities and alternative investments at the expense of developed market sovereign debt, says AllianzGI. A new survey has found that, like their global peers, around 30 per cent of European investors said they want to increase their allocation

Post Capital Partners has held first closing of Post Capital Equity Partners III, its second fund, at USD52 million. The target size of the fund is USD100 million.   The firm will continue to make both minority growth and control investments in small and middle-market companies by primarily employing its

Private equity fund EnCap Flatrock Midstream (EFM) has held the final closing of EnCap Flatrock Midstream Fund III. Substantially oversubscribed, the fund exceeded its USD2.25 billion target and reached its USD3 billion hard cap within four months.   Fund III received strong support from existing limited partners of its predecessor

European private equity performance showed positive returns across all investment horizons for the period ending 31 December 2013, according to Thomson Reuters’ Private Equity Performance Index. One year returns, which are most affected by the current market environment, moved in a positive direction from June 2013, registering a 3.8 percentage

Mawwell, a new international rewards-based crowdfunding destination for creative and innovative projects, has launched the first crowdfunding platform for the EMEA market. Mawwell, which means "fund" in Arabic, aims at giving the opportunity for project creators who may be too small for venture capital firms or too innovative for bankers,