European venture capital investment reached its highest amount in a decade with EUR6.4 billion in 2017, according to Invest Europe. Venture capital funds in Europe increased investments into companies of all stages and sizes last year. Seed and early stage investments grew almost 50 per cent year-on-year, reaching EUR649 million
The State Street Global Exchange Private Equity Index (GXPEI) ended the fourth quarter of 2017 with a continued strong performance by way of a 4.78 per cent total gain. Buyout Funds lead private equity strategies in gains with 5.23 per cent for the quarter. The PEI is based on directly-sourced
Guernsey’s funds industry is seeing a number of new inquiries so far this year and expects to see a rise in the value of the sector before the end of the year, following a decline in the first quarter’s statistics. Latest figures from the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) showed
Data from eFront, covering 4,000 funds globally, shows that Western European private equity funds showed the best returns globally, at the same time as delivering robust performance on the VC side. Western European private equity funds achieved an overall return of 1.68x (TVPI – total value to paid in), ahead
The Gemini Companies (Gemini) has experienced double digit growth of new private equity (PE) fund clients to date for 2018. “The growth potential for PE funds has no ceiling. In a competitive marketplace, the ability to adapt to investor demands is key. We strive to deliver to our clients cost-effective,
The performance of venture capital managers ticked up in the third quarter of 2017, emerging from the second quarter when a slow exit environment and mixed IPO performance dented returns, according to figures published today by Cambridge Associates. The Cambridge Associates LLC US Venture Capital Index returned 3.2 per cent
New data shows that, once biases are eliminated, European venture capital has consistently matched the performance of US funds over the past 20 years. European venture capital funds are often compared unfavourably to their US peers, but the latest analysis from eFront shows that this consensus has been reached through
Rasmala Group’s Rasmala Trade Finance Fund has crossed the USD250 million threshold in assets under management. The Fund has generated an annualised return of 4.45 per cent since its inception in September 2014. Rasmala said that heightened demand from asset managers to access genuinely uncorrelated investment products has seen the
Prestige Funds’ Luxembourg-domiciled direct lending fund, Commercial Finance Opportunities (CFO), has passed USD100 million in assets under management. The fund draws on the expertise of a large commercial direct lending team composed of almost 100 personnel. They are part of Nucleus Commercial Finance, a specialist provider of finance which is based
The value of regulated funds being administered in Jersey rose to a record level of almost GBP300 billion at the end of 2017 driven primarily by a rise in private equity business. That’s according to the latest figures to be collated by the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) and published
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