Social media and the right team seem to be crucial factors in achieving the goal for a crowdfunding campaign, according to a new research report by FundedByMe. FundedByMe is one of the only full-service crowdfunding platforms offering capital through equity, debt and reward based crowdfunding and has funded some 500
A study of 100 senior corporate executives by global law firm Reed Smith, in partnership with Mergermarket, reveals that 84 per cent of technology, media and entertainment (TME) companies expect to see more cross-sector M&A convergence deals over the next two years. The report, entitled Wired up: The convergence of
Invesco has released its third annual Invesco Global Sovereign Asset Management Study, an in-depth report on the complex investment behaviour of sovereign wealth funds, conducted amongst more than 50 individual sovereign investors across the globe representing USD7.09 trillion of assets. This year’s study took place against a backdrop of an
In this extract from the 2015 Preqin Investor Network Global Alternatives Report, we draw upon the latest data and investor interviews to explore the importance of alternative assets in an investor’s portfolio. Private Equity The limited partner universe has expanded and diversified in line with the growth of the private
Investment banking boutique Zeus Capital has made a senior promotion to bolster its research team, with Mike Allen taking on the role of Head of Research. Having joined Zeus Capital in September 2014 as Research Director, Allen is a public market analyst and has published research on some of the
Research firm Cerulli Associates has found that close to 70 per cent of European pensions plan to increase allocations to various alternative investment classes, principally infrastructure, in their search for diversification. The institutions realise that the yields from their core holdings are inadequate and that markets for some mainstream assets
The total cumulative value of offshore M&A deals and IPOs remained robust in the first quarter of 2015, with the average size of each deal among the highest on record, according to a report released today by Appleby. The latest edition of Offshore-i, an Appleby report that provides data and
A proliferation of new products and new distribution channels along with increased demands for transparency have significantly altered the demands on the infrastructure of alternative asset managers. That’s according to Convergence’s 2015 Alternative Asset Management Industry Update, which reveals that these trends lead to greater operating "complexity", which results in
Akina and Professor Oliver Gottschalg, HEC Paris and PERACS, have jointly release a research study analysing the fundamental drivers of risk and return in portfolios of private equity fund investments. The report’s findings reveal the superiority of an optimally diversified small/mid-cap portfolio strategy both in terms of return and risk.
Australia’s federal budget must clearly map out a cohesive policy strategy that continues to build on the nation’s innovative capacity and encourages greater capital investment across the business sector, according to the Australian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association Limited (AVCAL). “The federal budget plays a critically important role in
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