Efforts to improve gender diversity at UK hedge funds and private equity firms and other investment partnerships is slowly paying off, according to executive search specialists DHR International. The firm reports that the number of female partners has increased faster than male partners in the last year. DHR International’s
The private debt fundraising market saw 26 funds reach a final close in the second quarter of 2017, securing a total of USD16 billion in investor commitments. Preqin expects these figures to rise by around 10 per cent as further information becomes available, putting the quarter behind the strong activity
The global infrastructure deals market saw 277 deals announced in Q2, worth a combined USD51 billion, according to figures released by Preqin. The company expects these figures to rise by around 5 per cent as further information becomes available, but nevertheless, this represents a significant slowdown in activity in 2017
Pan-European private equity firm IK Investment Partners’ (IK) IK Small Cap I Fund is to acquire a minority stake in Third Bridge, a primary research provider. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Third Bridge provides its clients with insights into companies and markets through access to industry
The final regulations of MiFID II announced today are likely to lose brokers business, analysts their jobs and also hit fund managers’ profits says Cleveland & Co Associates, the boutique legal advisory business. Among the new regulations of MiFID II, which are due to come into effect in January 2018,
Much like a brooding teenager, cash has become a high maintenance asset class as a result of events over the last few years. Whether it is finding liquidity to put to work for new investment strategies (or, for that matter, support existing ones in terms of collateral management) or looking for
European Buy & Build activity in 2016 reached its highest level on record with the largest number of deals in the UK & Ireland, according to Silverfleet Capital’s latest annual European Buy & Build Monitor. The Buy & Build Monitor, which tracks global add-on activity undertaken by European headquartered companies
The French private equity market has produced an average annual return of 10.1 per cent over the last 30 years, according to a new report published by the Association Française des Investisseurs pour la Croissance (AFIC) and EY. The net performance of closed-end funds meanwhile totalled 14.7 per cent per year.
The evolution of the relationships between Limited Partners (LP) and General Partners (GP) is driving an increase in separately managed accounts (SMAs) and co-investments, according to the latest research by Private Equity at London Business School (LBS). In the report – What you pay and what you get…The evolution of
Leaking information on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals before any public announcement of the transaction added an extra USD21 million to the average value of the leaked in 2016, according to new research from Intralinks. In addition to evidence of higher valuations for M&A deals that leak, the 2017 Intralinks
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