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
A new Catapult centre that will help make cities become smarter and more forward thinking will be hosted in London, UK Business Secretary Vince Cable has announced, following on from the news that Glasgow will host the Future Cities demonstrator. The Catapult will be funded by up to GBP50m over
Money manager Neuberger Berman Group has held final close of NB Strategic Co-Investment Partners Fund II (NBCIP II), its second global private equity co-investment fund. NBCIP II was oversubscribed, closing on USD1.1bn and surpassing its target of USD750m. NBCIP II seeks to achieve superior risk-adjusted returns by investing directly into
Healthcare and financial services executives Jonathan Doctor, Glenn Golenberg and Sherwin Voss have formed DeNovo Health Partners to help healthcare services organisations and medical groups address the myriad of changes and regulations begin imposed on the industry. DeNovo Health Partners can provide support for practice management, implementing electronic health record
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