George Whitehead, Venture Partner Manager for the ventures team at Octopus Investments responds to NESTA’s suggestion that the the UK venture capital market is falling behind its US counterpart… Whilst the average returns for venture capital funds can look weak on both sides of the pond, the reality is that
European private equity performance showed positive returns across all investment horizons for the period ending 31 December 2012 and moved in a positive trajectory in all but the three-year time horizon, compared to June 2012. According to the Private Equity Performance Index, one year returns, which are most affected
Asset managers and investment specialists taking part in a Camradata roundtable believe that environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis will be fully integrated into investment management by the end of the current decade. While there were differences of opinion on what the mainstream would look like, there was broad
Derbyshire-headquartered Forest Holidays, specialists in exclusive rural holiday accommodation, has opened its eighth site location in the UK near Micheldever in Hampshire. The new site roll-out was completed with support and follow-on funding from private equity provider LDC, which originally invested in Forest Holidays in September 2012, and represents
There are approximately 1,200 private equity funds that can be described as zombie funds, according to Preqin data shown in this month’s Private Equity Spotlight. In a zombie fund, the GP is sitting on their assets past their expected holding period with no intention of making realisations and no
Graham Stock (pictured), chief strategist at Insparo Asset Management comments on the new EU laws for European mining, logging and oil companies to report payments of more than EUR100,000 (GBP85,000) made to the government in the country in which they operate… The new EU laws are a step forward in
Direct Lending funds are becoming an attractive “fixed income alternative” asset class for European institutional investors. The breadth of strategies ranges from high risk/high return “special situations” through to opportunistic strategies and what is referred to as the mainstream direct lending market. Yields across all three range from six per
European private equity firm Cinven has exceeded its target and held a final close for its fifth European buyout fund at EUR5.3bn. This follows a close in March 2013 at EUR5bn. The fund remains the largest pool of capital currently dedicated exclusively for European buyouts. It has already
Jersey’s finance industry reported a positive first quarter for 2013 right across its different sectors, with the levels of bank deposits rising and the value of funds being administered increasing to their highest level in four years. In the first quarter of 2013, bank deposits grew for the second consecutive
The Intesa Sanpaolo Start-Up Initiative international road-show made its first stop in Israel as part of the prestigious Israel BioMed 2013 Conference held in Tel Aviv from 10-12 May. The new international expansion phase of the acceleration platform promoted by Intesa Sanpaolo, envisaging strategic coverage of the most important non-European
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