Steven O’Hanlon, Chief Investment Officer, Fixed Income at ACPI on the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) decision to hold Indian interest rates and cut bank reserve ratios… The RBI has continued to focus on inflation as its dominant concern while formulating its monetary policy – evidenced by the decision to
Paul Mumford (pictured), Senior Investment Manager of Cavendish Asset Management (CAM), the specialist long only active equity fund manager, believes that now is the time for investors to consider taking a more positive approach to equity investing… I was quite amazed to recently read in various national newspapers and IFA
Don’t Just Start Up – Scale Up is the theme of this year’s Silicon Valley Comes to the UK 2012 (SVC2UK), taking place 14-16 November. Aimed at helping to support the growth of the next multi-billion-pound companies in Europe, this year’s SVC2UK programme seeks to tackle the challenges of creating
Over half of private equity executives (59 per cent) are expecting to increase their investment activity next year, according to a poll by KPMG. Thirty three per cent believed it would remain about the same, while only eight per cent said they expect to decrease investing activity. The poll was
Fund administration company Apex Fund Services has opened an office in San Francisco. The ongoing expansion of the Apex Global Network around concentrations of fund managers meant San Francisco was the logical choice to base its West coast business development team. The increasing regulatory burden has forced investment managers to
Real estate private equity fund managers around the world continue to face major challenges stemming largely from ongoing illiquidity within the capital markets. This has left few able to secure bank financing and stifled deal flow, according to Global Market Outlook: Trends in real estate private equity, a new report
Businesses across Britain had 27,300 overdraft and loan applications worth as much as GBP1.264bn rejected in Q1 2012, according to research carried out by Cambridge & Counties bank. The analysis also revealed that 300 applications are turned down every day, equating to 13 an hour. The average credit facility turned
The current low yield environment has created greater interest in non-conventional segments of the credit market. This was demonstrated by boutique investment bank Dexion Capital’s inaugural conference exploring “Opportunities across the credit spectrum”, held at the London Stock Exchange. Investment managers who presented at the conference included Neuberger Berman, Alcentra,
The ONS’ preliminary estimate of Q3 GDP showed the economy grew by a huge 1.0%, ending the UK’s longest double-dip recession since the Second World War in sensational style, says Azad Zangana, European Economist at Schroders… Year on year growth rose from -0.5% to flat. The results are significantly stronger
OFI InfraVia’s European Fund II, the firm’s second European focused infrastructure fund, has raised EUR150m from French and European institutional investors in a first closing of the fund. InfraVia II is managed by Paris-based manager OFI InfraVia and is the successor fund of InfraVia, which was established in 2008 and
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