The Foresight Global Real Infrastructure Fund (GRIF) has reached a Net Asset Value of GBP100 million in just seven months following launch in June 2019.The Fund has consistently outperformed its objective of UK CPI +3 per cent over the medium term, through its strategy of investing in renewable energy and
Independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager Foresight Group’s (Foresight) Foresight Capital Management Team (FCM) has raised GBP500 million in less than two years since the launch of its first open-ended investment company (OEIC). The team cites the growing demand for ESG and sustainable investing, predictable cash yields, and lower
The value of regulated funds serviced in Jersey rose by 7 per cent to a new record high in the first half of 2019, according to the latest figures to be collated by the jurisdiction’s financial regulator the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC). Figures for the second quarter of 2019
Private equity fundraising for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) hit the highest annual level in a decade in 2018 with EUR1.8 billion, according to new data from Invest Europe. Buyout funds in CEE raised EUR1.1 billion, while the region’s venture capital funds attracted over EUR500 million for the second year
Pacific Private Fund Advisors (PPFA) recently surpassed the USD1 billion milestone for invested assets under management (AUM), bringing total invested and committed AUM to over USD2.7 billion. PPFA, a subsidiary of Pacific Global Asset Management LLC, manages private equity investment portfolios for Pacific Life’s general account and third-party institutional clients.
Venture capital funds globally reached their best post-2009 crisis period performance in Q4 2018, surpassing the previous best recorded one year earlier, according to eFront’s latest Quarterly Private Equity Performance report. Performance of VC funds globally reached 1.531x in Q4 2018 – the highest level on record – before dipping
Although the macroeconomic picture for Europe has been muted in the past 24 months, the continent’s alternatives industry is moving from strength to strength, according to Preqin’s second annual Alternatives in Europe report in published in partnership with Amundi. 2018 has seen record activity across most alternative asset classes, with
Research from Cambridge Associates, the global investment firm, shows that investments by sector-specialist private equity funds outperform those made by generalist private equity funds by 4.7 per cent. For investments made from 2001 to 2014, the average Internal Rate of Return (IRR) on investments made by private equity funds focused
Whitehelm Capital’s Listed Core Infrastructure Fund (LCIF) has passed its third anniversary achieving a return of 16.5 per cent pa gross of fees and 15.3 per cent pa net of fees, in GBP unhedged, since inception on 31 May 2016. The Fund’s performance exceeds the OECD CPI + 5 per cent
Irish Funds, the representative body for the global cross-border investment funds industry in Ireland, has reported an increase in assets in Irish domiciled funds of 9 per cent over the last quarter, to an all-time high of EUR2.64 trillion according to the latest data from the Central Bank of Ireland
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