For the past 20 years or more the growth of the UCITS brand has been an unrivalled success: total assets are now an eye popping EUR7.1tn. Alongside this growth Europe has seen the emergence of management companies to handle the critical functions that a regulated UCITS fund entails – risk
DMS Offshore Investment Services identified the need to create an AIFMD solution for its clients three years ago when it opened its Dublin office. It was one of the first firms to establish an authorised Alternative Investment Fund Management Company in both Ireland and Luxembourg. DMS boasts a 21-person team
“Our AIFMD solution will be an infrastructure platform with distribution support but it absolutely won’t be an active distribution model; that’s a key differentiator for us,” Gavin Byrnes (pictured), Head of Business Development UK, UBS Fund Services, states emphatically. UBS Fund Services is looking to roll out its AIFMD fund
Regardless of whether a hedge fund manager has an AIF, a UCITS fund, or one of each, the end objective is the same: to improve their capital raising opportunities in Europe. This is all well and good, but for non-EU managers in particular, there are significant costs and operational challenges
“The issue is one of insourcing versus outsourcing,” says Alan Picone (pictured), Managing Director at Kinetic Partners (Luxembourg), when discussing which operational model to pursue under AIFMD. Making the plunge to become an independent AIFM is a big ask for most managers, both in terms of time and capital resources.
Thames Valley accountants and business advisory firm James Cowper has advised global microinsurance specialist MicroEnsure on its fundraising. MicroEnsure raised USD10.4m from its existing investors, as well as from Sanlam Emerging Markets and AXA, to help finance its expansion into new markets. Following an 88 per cent increase in
First Reserve has closed its second energy infrastructure fund, First Reserve Energy Infrastructure Fund II, at USD2.5 billion, surpassing its initial target of USD2 billion. First Reserve now has over USD4 billion dedicated to investing in energy infrastructure opportunities. The firm received support from a diversified base of limited
Stanbic Bank Uganda and CfC Stanbic Kenya, subsidiaries of Standard Bank Group, have completed the first ever Accelerated Bookbuild (ABB) on the Uganda Securities Exchange (USE) and Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) followed by an offer to management and retail investors. Stanbic advised Actis, a UK-based private equity firm, on the
Companies such as Guaranty Trust Bank, Zenith Bank and Nigerian Breweries have put Nigeria at the forefront of frontier market opportunities, according to Baring Asset Management. Africa’s largest economy, Nigeria, recently rebased its GDP upwards to USD500 billion for 2013, ranking the country as the 26th largest economy in the
Private equity firm Permira has held the final close of its global private equity fund, Permira V, at the hard cap of EUR5.3 billion (USD7.2 billion). The new fund will follow Permira's long-term investment strategy of identifying market-leading businesses that benefit from structural growth drivers and have significant potential to
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