Using data from the recently released 2015 Preqin Alternative Assets Performance Monitor, Preqin has created league tables of alternative asset fund managers that have most consistently outperformed their peers. The league tables do not seek in any way to endorse these fund managers, but rather to illustrate those that have
Using Preqin’s new fund size benchmarks on Hedge Fund Analyst, together with the results of our interviews with approximately 300 hedge fund managers, this extract from September’s Preqin Hedge Fund Spotlight newsletter analyses the effect that fund size has on the overall hedge fund industry by looking at performance, terms
UMB Fund Services (UMBFS) has launched a mobile app for its proprietary alternative investment fund accounting and investor servicing technology called UMB Fund Services FastPro. The app, which is live on Android and Apple iOS operating systems, allows clients to view historical data and reports, investor demographics and fund performance information
Exabeam, a specialist in user behaviour analytics (UBA) for security, has held the closing of a USD25 million financing round to further accelerate the company's rapid growth and continue updating its UBA solution in response to customer demand and industry trends. Icon Ventures led the Series B investment round. Icon
Private investment firm Enhanced Capital and FocusPoint Private Capital Group (FocusPoint), a FINRA member focused on private capital raising, have formed Enhanced FocusPoint (EFP), a partnership to source, seed and launch a series of private investment funds. EFP will identify talented management teams with investment strategies suitable for institutional
Swarm64 AS, a data acceleration company from Oslo and Berlin, has raised a total of up to EUR7.1 million from lead investors Alliance Venture, Target Partners and Investinor. The funds will be used for market entry, building out the team and to set up operations in the US market. Swarm64
Genstar Capital and Aquiline Capital Partners are to acquire Ascensus Inc. from JC Flowers & Co. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter, following regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Ascensus, the nation’s largest independent service provider of
London-based investor Impax Asset Management,has completed a PLN181.5 million (EUR43 million) refinancing for the 42 MW Kisielice wind park in Poland. The new facilities provided by a syndicate led by Raiffeisen Bank Polska with Raiffeisen Bank International, and Alior Bank were used to refinance loans and hedging provided by Caixa
Audax Private Equity completed its 500th acquisition on 21 September when portfolio company Advanced Dermatology & Cosmetic Surgery (ADCS) acquired the assets of Dermatology of Northern Colorado, a dermatology practice in Fort Collins, Colorado. Dermatology of Northern Colorado is ADCS’s 31st acquisition since Audax acquired the platform in October of
Funds managed by The Private Equity Group of Ares Management and Harvest Partners have acquired Valet Waste from investment funds affiliated with New Mountain Capital, LLC. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Based in Tampa, Valet Waste is a leading national provider of value-added amenity services to the
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