Standard Life European Private Equity Trust’s undiluted net asset value per ordinary share (NAV) rose by 7.2 per cent to 243.9p during the six months to 31 March 2013 (diluted NAV – 240.9p). Including the dividend paid in February 2013, the NAV total return for the period was 8.0
Electra Private Equity has reported a nine per cent increase in its diluted net asset value per share to 2,684p in the six month period ended 31 March 2013. The firm’s diluted NAV per share, including dividends, is up 298 per cent over ten years resulting in a ten-year
Insight Venture Partners has closed Insight Venture Partners VIII, a USD2.57bn private equity fund. Like its predecessor funds, Insight Venture Partners will invest Fund VIII in global software, e-Commerce, internet and data services businesses. The firm will deploy capital in growth stage and more mature companies, as minority
New research highlights the extent to which private equity positively influences several key drivers of European economic competitiveness and growth. The findings, produced by Frontier Economics, show that private equity activity leads to increased foreign investment, improvements in innovation, and enhanced productivity. The economic impact created by private
A delegation from Guernsey is heading to the US to showcase Guernsey’s finance industry offering to clients on the other side of the Atlantic. The team is being led by Fiona Le Poidevin (pictured), chief executive of Guernsey Finance – the promotional agency for the island’s finance industry –
EVCA Secretary-General Dörte Höppner (pictured) welcomes EU Commissioner Michel Barnier’s decision to postpone the introduction of solvency rules to the revised IORP Directive… We have long argued that Solvency II style rules for workplace pensions are inappropriate and disproportionate. Such regulation would deter pension funds from investing in long-term investment
IP Group plc has launched a GBP30m venture capital fund, IP Venture Fund II, in partnership with venture capital investor European Investment Fund (EIF). IP Venture Fund II will invest alongside IP Group in new spin-out companies from IP Group’s university partnerships and other collaborations with the EIF effectively investing alongside
DVK, a boutique private equity and commodity trading company, has formed a strategic partnership with the European Premiere of An Evening with Pacino, taking place at the London Palladium on 2 June 2013. This follows the launch of DVK’s film and entertainment fund which will be governed by international
The Cambridge Associates Australia Private Equity and Venture Capital Index (C|A Australia Index) showed steady gains in 2012, increasing by 5.78 per cent, according to the latest quarterly report released by The Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCAL). Over the same period, the S&P/ASX 300 Index surged
Beechbrook Capital has raised EUR67m at the first close of its latest fund, Beechbrook Mezzanine II. With pledges of a further EUR25m for additional closes later in the year, Beechbrook is well on course for its target fund size of EUR100m to EUR120m. Beechbrook Mezzanine II has been backed
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