As private equity becomes more popular, investors are demanding many of the same things from their alternative investments that they have come to expect from their traditional funds, according to research by State Street. More than half of the private equity managers interviewed in Europe (56 per cent) reported
Glynn Barwick (pictured), regulatory lawyer and counsel for Goodwin Procter LLP’s Financial Services Practice in London, comments on the ESMA’s final guidelines for AIFM reporting requirements… On 1 October 2013 ESMA published a press release titled "ESMA clarifies reporting requirements for Alternative Fund Managers " to accompany its final guidelines report
Ardian, the independent private investment company formerly known as AXA Private Equity, has held a successful closing of its LBO Fund V. At EUR2.41bn the new fund represents a 51% increase in size from Fund IV with over half committed by previous investors in Fund IV and the welcome introduction
Alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group has closed a EUR335m collateralised loan obligation (CLO) fund, the firm’s second new-issue CLO in Europe this year. Carlyle GMS Euro CLO 2013-2 will invest predominantly in new issue and secondary market European senior secured bank loans. Citibank arranged the transaction. Carlyle’s first new-issue European
SAP Ventures has raised more than USD650 million for a new direct investment fund, SAP Ventures Fund II. Taken together with SAP HANA Real Time Fund, a USD405 million fund-of-funds that invests in early stage VC funds, SAP Ventures has added more than USD1 billion in new funds in 12
Following the news that the US government has failed to agree a budget, Joanna Shatney, Head of US Large Cap Equities shares her views on what this means for US markets… Haven’t we dealt with this before? With political gridlock over the 2014 budget, we have breached another US government
Alter Domus, a fund and corporate services provider dedicated to private equity houses and real estate firms, has set up operations in France through a dedicated fund administration entity. Laurent Vanderweyen (pictured), chief executive officer, Alter Domus, says: “France is a critical market with huge potential for Alter Domus
Aggregate transaction value in the French SME space recorded a 52 per cent drop from 2011 to 2012 as the number of foreign buyers fell, research from S&P Capital IQ has revealed. When singling out M&A transactions where French small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the targets, the level
Stephen Cohen, Head of Investment Strategy at iShares, looks at the future for emerging markets… It’s been a tough year for emerging markets. Emerging equities have underperformed developed equities for the last two years, while EM debt has struggled during the Indian Summer. The outlook has recently begun to turn
Private equity firms are missing an opportunity to put a value on the improvements they are making within their portfolio companies from implementing their environmental, social and governance (ESG) management programmes, according to a report from PwC. The report, Putting a price on value, based on the largest ever
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