Aldermore has raised GBP40m of new capital from institutional investors Toscafund and Lansdowne Partners. The new funding was initiated and managed by its founding sponsor, AnaCap Financial Partners. The new funds will enable Aldermore to continue to meet the demand for its accounts and services from both retail customers
Major institutional investors are poised to increase their allocations to alternative investments, with a bias towards real estate and real assets, during 2014, according to a survey by BlackRock. Approximately half of institutions surveyed – 49 per cent – expect to increase their real estate allocation and over 40 per
Portfolio Advisors (PA) has held the final closing of its globally diversified private equity secondary fund, Portfolio Advisors Secondary Fund II (PASF II), with total commitments of USD910m. Limited partners include private and public pension plans, university endowments, private foundations, insurance companies, family offices and high net worth individuals.
Small and mid-cap fund managers are looking to invest in under-valued companies with good fundamentals, recurring revenues, a good management team and a sustainable competitive position in 2014. That is according to research carried out by Baker Tilly and the Quoted Companies Alliance. The Small and Mid-Cap Investors Survey
Rob Smith, Manager of the German Growth Trust at Barings, comments on the latest GDP figures from Germany… When it comes to Germany, given the huge trade flows that influence the GDP numbers, it would not be advisable to extrapolate a trend from just a couple of quarters. All other
Avolon, the international aircraft leasing group, has now raised total capital of USD6.7bn and increased its fleet to a total of 182 aircraft. According to the company’s full year trading update for 2013 additional debt financing of USD1.6bn was raised during the year. Avolon closed and funded Emerald Aviation
A key investment theme of 2014 is expected to be politics, as elections could affect policies in several emerging markets, according to the BNY Mellon Global Market Outlook… The outlook is the annual look ahead from BNY Mellon Investment Management and features views from across the firm’s global investment affiliates.
Private equity firms are struggling to disseminate data into market intelligence, according to research by strategic advisory and analyst firm TABB Group and SunGard. When asked what prevents them from managing their business effectively, the top responses from fund managers or general partners (GPs) were: the time it takes to
Demand for commodities is still outpaced by supply, says Esty Dwek (pictured), Investment Strategist at HSBC Private Bank… We believe that the improvements in global growth are not yet leading to a meaningful increase in demand for commodities, at a time when supply remains ample. As a result, we expect prices
Ardian has committed EUR30m into F2i Second Fund, a fund operated by Italian infrastructure specialist Fondi Italiani per le Infrastrutture SGR (F2i). The investment bolsters the relationship Ardian (formerly AXA Private Equity) has built with F2i. F2i is an Italian operator and has a strong track record of consolidation
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