Seventy-four per cent of private equity fund managers made firm-wide increases in base salary from 2014 to 2015, according to Preqin’s 2016 Private Equity Compensation and Employment Review. According to the survey of almost 200 private equity firms, the average increase in salary was 7 per cent, with 14 per
European corporates continue to embrace alternative finance, with about one third (30 per cent) of their funding coming from this source, according to research published by Allen & Overy. However, the market remains fragmented and largely domestic, requiring an industry-wide effort to embrace a uniform standard in order to harness
Ropes & Gray represented six pharmaceutical companies and Alzheimer’s Research UK in their investment in the Dementia Discovery Fund (DDF), a UK Government-sponsored fund established to support the discovery and development of novel dementia treatments. This public-private collaboration is the first of its kind to address one of the most
The Association of Investment Companies’ (AIC) sixth annual survey of venture capital trust (VCT) investment reveals that a total of 13,508 new jobs have been created at the SMEs surveyed since the beginning of the VCT investment scheme. According to the survey – ‘Nurturing success, delivering growth: VCT investment 1995-2015’
Paul Latham (pictured), Managing Director of Octopus, comments on the Association of Investment Companies (AIC) sixth annual Venture Capital Trust (VCT) investment survey… This year’s AIC ‘Nurturing success, delivering growth’ survey demonstrates how vital a source of funding VCT investments are for many UK smaller companies. The findings tally with
Luxembourg's funds industry is marching ahead as Europe's leading funds domicile if figures released by the Association of the Luxembourg Funds Industry (ALFI) are anything to go by. According to ALFI, March saw the Grand Duchy enjoy record net sales and a growth of AUM. Total assets now total EUR3.53
Global early-stage mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in Q3 2015 increased by just 5.6 per cent compared with the same period last year, the slowest rate of growth for almost three years. That’s according to the latest Intralinks Deal Flow Predictor (DFP) report which forecasts the volume of future M&A
Endowments and foundations continue to see private equity an important part of their allocation strategy, according to a new study by NEPC, but valuations are a concern for over half (58 per cent) of those questioned inn the Q3 2015 NEPC Endowment and Foundation Poll. This survey, which as with
Capital raising by high tech Israeli companies totalled USD3.2 billion in the first nine months of 2015, and is expected to surpass 2014’s total by year end, according to a new report by the IVC Research Centre and KPMG. The third quarter of 2015 concluded with USD1.1 billion raised by
The UK is at the centre of European M&A in 2015, with deal values already exceeding FY 2014 according to MergerMarket’s Q1-3 trend report. The first six month’s of the year have also seen the highest H1 deal value on record. Turmoil in the Greek economy and the weakened euro
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