Jamie Allsopp (pictured), Fund Manager at Insparo Asset Management believes US president Barack Obama should follow the UK’s lead on investment in Africa… You don’t have to be an expert to realise Africa has extraordinary investment potential. Africa receives far less foreign direct investment than China or India and over
KKR’s first listed closed-end fund, KKR Income Opportunities Fund, has completed its initial public offering and began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on 26 July under the symbol KIO. The fund raised USD305m in its common share offering, excluding any exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional
LexisNexis has boosted its asset manager and wealth management intelligence offering through an extended content agreement with market leader Global Fund Media (GFM). GFM is the largest online news publisher serving institutional investors and wealth managers with daily news and information on all mainstream and alternative asset classes covering:
Rock Hill Capital Group, a Houston-based private equity firm, has held the final closing of Rock Hill Capital II with USD87.7m in capital commitments. Fund II is the successor fund to Rock Hill Capital I and continues a similar investment strategy. “We are pleased to report a successful
In May 2013 Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt held its inaugural executive roundtable focusing on the private equity industry. The goal of the roundtable is to provide informative and strategic insight into emerging challenges so that private equity firms can best prepare for and manage legal exposure and risks.
W Capital Management has closed W Capital Partners III with USD750m of total capital commitments. Fund III completed fundraising at its target and hard cap. Fund III will continue W Capital’s mission of providing exit flexibility for private equity shareholders and growth capital for private equity backed companies.
RCP Advisors, an independent sponsor of private equity funds of funds, secondary funds and co-investment funds, focused on North American lower middle market buyouts, has closed RCP Secondary Opportunity Fund II. The new fund closed on USD425m in commitments, exceeding its target of USD300m. “Secondary funds are the
International investors have responded with enthusiasm to the Nigerian Government’s attempts to attract private investment into its power industry with over 100 bidders submitting expressions of interest to acquire majority shareholdings in the NIPP ten new thermal power plants. The combined sales could generate several billions of US dollars
Joanna Shatney, Head of US Large Cap Equities at Schroders, comments on this week’s US GDP data… While the Q2 GDP data was better than expected, the absolute level of growth remains low. We are optimistic that GDP growth will accelerate later in the year, after the drag from sequestration and
Fund manager Nicola Horlick has broken records with her campaign on equity crowdfunding site Seedrs to raise seed capital for her new venture, Glentham Capital. The GBP150,000 target investment, offering 10 per cent ownership of the new business, was achieved in just 22 hours from launch, with 136 investors
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