Crowdfunding outperformed private equity with investment into non-listed high growth companies in the UK in 2016, according to a report from research agency Beauhurst. Seedrs, the Neil Woodford backed investment platform, has again been named top investor into private companies in the UK, with Crowdcube, another notable crowdfunding site coming
Fund-level benchmarks, which institutional investors have relied on for decades to evaluate private equity managers and opportunities, no longer provide a complete picture, according to investment firm Cambridge Associates (CA). The continued expansion and evolution of the private equity market is challenging the singular usefulness of fund-level "net to limited
Nearly half of UK investors are positive about Brexit, although two fifths are fearful of Trump and 73 per cent lack faith in Prime Minister Theresa May, according to research carried out by IW Capital. A survey of 1,000 UK investors, aimed assessing the true impact of 2016’s triple threat
Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending is beginning to see a flight to quality as the growth rate of the industry slows and weaker platforms exit the market, according to direct lending specialist BondMason. BondMason’s Market Report 2017, a summary of the latest trends in the P2P market, shows the UK direct lending
Large institutional investors are set to put cash to work in 2017, a BlackRock survey has found, with one in four (25 per cent) intending to decrease their cash allocations during the year, twice as many as those who plan to increase cash holdings (13 per cent). The survey shows
The fourth Albion Growth Report, based on interviews with 1,000 SMEs, finds that less than half (45 per cent) of microbusiness owners with fewer than five employees expect their company to grow over the next two years compared to almost three-quarters (73 per cent) of larger scale SMEs. The report
The volume of European restructurings is expected to hit its next peak in 2017, according to a survey by Debtwire in conjunction with independent investment bank Greenhill and law firm Orrick. The study, for Debtwire Europe’s 13th European Distressed Debt Market Outlook, canvassed the opinion of 130 European hedge fund
The alternatives industry grew solidly in 2016 across all segments and factors tracked by Convergence. The firm measures the overall health of the industry by analysing changes it observes in 17,500-plus advisers, 53,000-plus private funds and 6,000-plus service providers. According to Convergence’s Q4 2016 update, more advisers and managers
Nearly half (47 per cent) of small and medium-sized business (SME) owners claim the business advice they received in the last year from their mainstream bank had a negative impact on their business operations. One in six (16 per cent) of these suggested their business is now in a worse
2016 was a new post-Lehman record year for the German mid-cap LBO market, according to the latest MidCapMonitor survey by Altium, which lists 77 transactions for the year, representing a further 10 per cent rise on 2015. The survey regularly analyses leveraged buyout finance transactions with a credit volume of
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