KKR’s Green Portfolio Program (GPP) has produced an estimated USD917 million in cost savings and added revenue and more than 1.8 million metric tons of GHGs avoided between 2008 and 2012. The GPP is an operational improvement program that uses an “environmental lens” to assess critical business activities of KKR’s
Custom House Global Fund Services has launched Custom House Gateway, a web portal that connects fund servicing with solutions across the middle and back office, designed for US alternative investment managers. “The US hedge fund industry is growing fast globally, adding USD150 billion in assets under management in 2013. At
Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) and AlpInvest Partners have assumed management of two funds of funds with a focus on Indiana life sciences companies. The funds are: the Indiana Future Fund (IFF), a USD72.6 million fund of funds, and its USD58.0 million successor, the INext Program
The lights are on green for private equity investors in the German SME sector, according to the latest autumn survey of the private equity panel polled three times a year by CMS Hasche Sigle and FINANCE magazine. The banks seem to be courting them almost as enthusiastically as in the
Schroders Chief Economist, Keith Wade (pictured), comments on the US Congress decision to approve federal spending and lift the debt ceiling after 16 days of government shutdown, and the impact that this could have on markets… After 16 days of government shutdown, Congress has approved a bill to fund federal
MSCI has launched MSCI ESG DataMetrics, a set of ESG scores, indicators and data to facilitate quantitative analysis, development of proprietary ESG models and reporting on ESG and portfolio footprint analysis. Remy Briand, Managing Director and Head of MSCI Index and ESG Research, says: “With investor awareness on ESG issues
Dr Laurence Wormald (pictured), head of buy side risk research at SunGard, comments on the impact of the US debt ceiling… US sovereign default is a very big deal, although the government shutdown has had only a mild effect on investors’ view of the US equities markets. The VIX “fear
Kinetic Partners has unveiled its ‘AIFMD checklist’ for use by compliance and risk departments within both full-scope Alternative Investment fund managers (AIFMs) and small authorised/registered UK AIFMs. The list has been designed to give firms an accurate picture of their progress along the road to meeting the AIFMD regulations.
AlpInvest Partners, the private equity fund of funds arm of The Carlyle Group's Solutions platform, has now raised USD4.2 billion through its Alpinvest Secondaries Program (ASP), following the closing of AlpInvest Secondaries Fund V (ASF V) at its hard cap of USD750 million. ASP is a dedicated Secondaries program that
Clean technology venture investment in Israel during the third quarter of 2013 totalled USD111 million, bringing the year-to-date total to USD151 million, according to figures released by Cleantech Group’s i3 platform. Kaiima, an Agriculture & Forestry company, raised USD65 million from Horizon Ventures, International Finance Corporation (IFC), Infinity Group, Draper
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