Private equity deal volumes and valuations are beginning to diverge with the pace of PE investment activity slowing year over year while valuations have climbed to a 10-year high, according to Murray Devine’s inaugural H1 Private Equity Valuations Report. The report, which analyses data provide by PitchBook to examine trends
More and more institutions are turning to private equity for the first time, in search of investment returns that are increasingly hard to find elsewhere. Commitments to private investment strategies have grown from an estimated USD180 billion in commitments in 2009 to over USD480 billion in 2016. Many investors believe
Overall European private equity deal volume rose by 11 per cent in Q2 2017, continuing the market’s rebound after a two-year decline that ended in Q1 2017, according to preliminary figures from unquote”’s Q2 2017 Private Equity Barometer, which is published in association with SL Capital. The combined value of
Multilateralism has been a key trend in the global mergers and acquisitions space over the last year, borne out of wider changes in the international tax landscape, such as the implementation of the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) initiative. That’s according to Tax advisor Taxand’s new 2017 Global
Financial regulators across the globe are cracking down heavily on cases of individual misconduct, according to the 5th annual Global Enforcement Review published by the Compliance and Regulatory Consulting Practice of Duff & Phelps. Regulators in the UK, USA and Hong Kong brought a total of 1,761 cases against individuals
The 2017 Preqin Private Capital Fund Terms Advisor finds that several private capital fund types are raising their average management fees among funds of more recent vintages. Unlisted infrastructure funds have seen mean management fees rise marginally from lows of 1.38 per cent for 2014 vintage funds to 1.48 per
FinTech Studios, a cloud platform of AI-based financial information, FinTech apps and big-data analytic products operated in partnership with top FinTech startups, financial institutions, data providers and strategic partners, has raised USD1 million in Series Seed funding, led by KEC Ventures. Jeff Parkinson, Managing Partner of KEC Ventures, will
An overwhelming majority (74 per cent) of institutional and family office investors expect to allocate capital into a venture capital (VC) fund in the next two years, according to a new survey from Ariadne Capital. Furthermore, 78 per cent said they expect to or have decided to invest directly into
The world’s largest 100 alternative asset managers saw assets under management increase by 10 per cent in 2016, rising to USD4.0 trillion, according to the 2017 edition of Willis Towers Watson’s Global Alternatives Survey. The survey, which captures long-term institutional investment trends by seven main investor groups across ten alternative
Global venture capital (VC) deal value increased by 55.3 per cent to USD40.07 billion in Q2 2017, propelled by an uptick in mega-deals around the world, according to Venture Pulse Q2 2017 — the quarterly global VC trends report published by KPMG Enterprise. Globally, the United States led VC investment,
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