Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed infrastructure asset and private equity investment manager specialising in ESG-oriented strategies, saw the NAV of its three OEICs, FP Foresight UK Infrastructure Income Fund (FIIF), FP Foresight Global Real Infrastructure Fund (GRIF) and FP Foresight Sustainable Real Estate Securities Fund (REF), break through GBP1 billion
Groupama Axiom Legacy 21 has reached EUR506 million in assets under management, less than three years after the fund’s launch in 2018. The fund focuses on the subordinated “legacy” debt universe, a sector of financial instruments that is constantly being influenced by regulatory changes across the Eurozone. Currently, the majority
Data presented by Buy Shares indicates the value of funds raised by venture capitalists in Europe surged by 147.78 per cent between 2016 and 2020. Last year recorded the highest value in a decade at USD49 billion, a growth from 2019’s USD42 billion. In 2018, the value was USD33.01 billion
Returns from venture funds globally reached a record level in Q2 2020, despite the Covid-19 crisis, and remained high as the year progressed, according to eFront’s latest Quarterly Private Equity Performance report. Up to the end of Q3, 2020 has been an exceptional year for venture capital performance, with funds
Francisco Partners has been named the top-performing firm in the 2020 HEC-DowJones Private Equity Performance Ranking. The San Francisco-headquartered tech specialist came top out of 529 private equity (PE) firms analysed, delivering an aggregate performance that was 2.40 standard deviations above the average. Genstar Capital Partners, and Vitruvian Partners were
Williams Advanced Engineering’s (WAE) technology investment partnership with Foresight Group has hit a milestone of GBP50 million raised, helping a total of 20 UK-based SMEs and start-ups take their innovative products to market.Launched in 2016, the Foresight Williams Technology EIS fund has had one aim: to help grow small and
Silixa, a specialist service company delivering distributed fibre optic monitoring solutions for data acquisition, backed by Lime Rock Partners, Chevron Technology Ventures, and Equinor Ventures, has reported a 96 per cent increase in global turnover to GBP20.35 million in 2019. In the same period, profit margins also increased from 48 per
Foresight Group’s Foresight Global Real Infrastructure Fund (GRIF) has surpassed its target performance of UK CPI +3 per cent over 12 months, with a total return 18.51 per cent. The Fund has provided a yield of 4.12 per cent over 12 months exhibiting significantly lower volatility levels than higher risk
Blackstone’s private equity division saw assets reach USD174.7 billion, while the group’s hedge fund performance fell more than 8 per cent during a torrid first quarter. But the world’s largest alternative investment manager has grown its overall assets over the past year, and now has USD150 billion in “dry powder”
Fortino Capital Partners has held a first close on EUR45 million for the successor of its first VC-fund, Fortino Capital Venture II. The fund, which will be focussing on early stage European software and tech companies with a regional bias to the Benelux, has a target size of EUR80 million.
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