Deborah Zurkow (pictured), CIO Infrastructure Debt, Allianz Global Investors on the UK Government’s decision to boost infrastructure spending by GBP3bn a year… By earmarking a further GBP3bn from a fiscally constrained budget, the Chancellor has underlined the importance of infrastructure spending to the UK economy. Given the estimated GBP200bn pipeline
RLH Equity Partners has held the final closing of RLH Investors III (Fund 3) with total commitments of USD380m. Fund 3 was oversubscribed, requiring an increase in the fund’s original hard cap to accommodate strong investor interest. The new fund’s size represents a more than 40 per cent increase from the
Sanlam Private Investments Holdings (SPIH) has rebranded the corporate finance, corporate broking, institutional stockbroking, institutional sales and research teams of the Merchant Securities business as Sanlam Securities UK Limited, following the acquisition of the company in 2012. SPIH plans to expand and develop the established corporate finance and corporate broking
Silk Road Finance has launched Africa Asia Capital, a Mozambique-focused corporate finance advisory firm. The new Mozambique-dedicated venture has a mandate to facilitate both foreign strategic and portfolio investments in Mozambique and advice national institutions and companies on raising capital internationally, primarily in Asia. Recent discoveries of massive
Jon Terry (pictured), partner in PwC’s reward team, comments on the European Parliament’s suggested amendments to the UCITS V Directive, which, if passed, will have major implications for all European asset management businesses… If passed unchanged, these proposals will leave asset management businesses managing UCITS products facing even tougher pay
RiverVest Venture Partners’ Fund II has delivered a return of more than double that of a respected benchmark that delineates top-performing venture capital funds. Focusing exclusively on life science innovations, RiverVest delivered to its Fund II limited partners a 14.5 per cent per annum net internal rate of return (IRR)
European private equity firm Cinven has held the final closing of its fifth European buyout fund with total commitments of EUR5bn. The new fund represents the largest pool of capital currently dedicated exclusively for European buyouts. Previous funds have seen strong performance, returning 41 per cent gross IRR on 82 realised
While many market observers are impressed by suddenly soaring European stocks, Paul Chew, Head of Investments at Brown Advisory is sceptical about a continued run in 2013… Europe is a land of contradictions which was clear in 2012 as its economy and capital markets took off in opposite directions. While
Stuart Watson, partner at Ernst & Young, responds to Science and Technology Select Committee findings on entrepreneurship funding… “Companies developing new science and technology tend to be either a great success or a great failure and those funding such ventures will need to be prepared to take an equity risk.
Ada Investments is to migrate its core services and production applications to Gravitas Private Cloud, a secure, scalable and integrated solution built on VCE’s VBlock state-of-the-art virtualisation and cloud technology. "Faced with unprecedented challenges to reduce their overall technology costs and enhance operational efficiency, alternative asset management firms are seeking
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