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American Capital launches American Capital Infrastructure

American Capital has expanded its investment management activities into the energy infrastructure sector with the formation of American Capital Infrastructure. American Capital Infrastructure will be led by Paul Hanrahan, chief executive. American Capital Infrastructure plans to manage investments in global energy infrastructure assets, including power generation facilities, power distribution and

CBOE, CFE, C2 and CBSX to reopen on 31 October

Trading on Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE), C2 Options Exchange (C2) and CBOE Stock Exchange (CBSX) will resume on Wednesday, 31 October. The exchanges were closed on Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 as a result of Hurricane Sandy.

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RBI continues to focus on inflation

Steven O’Hanlon, Chief Investment Officer, Fixed Income at ACPI on the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI)  decision to hold Indian interest rates and cut bank reserve ratios… The RBI has continued to focus on inflation as its dominant concern while formulating its monetary policy – evidenced by the decision to

Paul Mumford, Cavendish Asset Management

The time for a passive approach to investment is long passed

Paul Mumford (pictured), Senior Investment Manager of Cavendish Asset Management (CAM), the specialist long only active equity fund manager, believes that now is the time for investors to consider taking a more positive approach to equity investing… I was quite amazed to recently read in various national newspapers and IFA

SVC2UK wants UK to ‘think big’

Don’t Just Start Up – Scale Up is the theme of this year’s Silicon Valley Comes to the UK 2012 (SVC2UK), taking place 14-16 November. Aimed at helping to support the growth of the next multi-billion-pound companies in Europe, this year’s SVC2UK programme seeks to tackle the challenges of creating

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Most PE execs expect to invest more next year, says KPMG

Over half of private equity executives (59 per cent) are expecting to increase their investment activity next year, according to a poll by KPMG. Thirty three per cent believed it would remain about the same, while only eight per cent said they expect to decrease investing activity. The poll was

Peter Hughes, Apex Fund Services

Apex opens San Francisco office

Fund administration company Apex Fund Services has opened an office in San Francisco. The ongoing expansion of the Apex Global Network around concentrations of fund managers meant San Francisco was the logical choice to base its West coast business development team. The increasing regulatory burden has forced investment managers to

Real estate private equity challenged by liquidity issues, says Ernst & Young

Real estate private equity fund managers around the world continue to face major challenges stemming largely from ongoing illiquidity within the capital markets. This has left few able to secure bank financing and stifled deal flow, according to Global Market Outlook: Trends in real estate private equity, a new report

GBP1.3bn of UK business overdraft and loan applications rejected in Q1 2012

Businesses across Britain had 27,300 overdraft and loan applications worth as much as GBP1.264bn rejected in Q1 2012, according to research carried out by Cambridge & Counties bank. The analysis also revealed that 300 applications are turned down every day, equating to 13 an hour. The average credit facility turned

Credit strategies benefit from increased demand for yield, says Dexion

The current low yield environment has created greater interest in non-conventional segments of the credit market. This was demonstrated by boutique investment bank Dexion Capital’s inaugural conference exploring “Opportunities across the credit spectrum”, held at the London Stock Exchange. Investment managers who presented at the conference included Neuberger Berman, Alcentra,

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