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Nearly one in five PE lenders targeting manufacturing sector, says Pepperdine research

Nineteen per cent of private equity companies plan to invest in the manufacturing sector over next 12 months, according to the 2013 Capital Markets Report by Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management. Overall, private equity investors said that they expect further increases in demand for private equity, deal

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Wall Street year-end incentive awards to improve in 2012, says Johnson Associates

Wall Street professionals can expect to receive flat to moderately larger year-end incentive payouts compared to the previous year, according to an annual compensation analysis released by Johnson Associates. The analysis found that this year’s incentives results are an improvement over 2011, when incentives fell sharply throughout the financial services

Percival Stanion, Baring Asset Management

‘Fiscal cliff’ will be major concern for White House winner

The outcome of this week’s US Presidential election will hopefully provide us with a signal for the direction of economic policy in a number of key areas. The most important of these is the “fiscal cliff” – a potent combination of lower spending and higher taxes which, in the absence

RRE Ventures closes RRE Ventures V

RRE Ventures has successfully closed the RRE Ventures V fund with capital commitments of USD230 million. RRE is a New York City-based venture capital firm focused on companies that leverage technologies to disrupt and transform many of the world’s major industries. Led by Co-Managing Partners James D Robinson IV and Stuart J

Heseltine report makes ‘compelling reading’

BVCA Chief Executive Mark Florman (pictured) welcomes Lord Heseltine’s ‘radical report on wealth creation… Lord Heseltine’s radical report looking at the urgency of reforms to unleash growth and wealth creation in Britain makes for compelling reading. His emphasis on a strategy for the cities and regions, not just London, is

American Capital Malon Wilkus

American Capital launches American Capital Infrastructure

American Capital has expanded its investment management activities into the energy infrastructure sector with the formation of American Capital Infrastructure. American Capital Infrastructure will be led by Paul Hanrahan, chief executive. American Capital Infrastructure plans to manage investments in global energy infrastructure assets, including power generation facilities, power distribution and

CBOE, CFE, C2 and CBSX to reopen on 31 October

Trading on Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE), C2 Options Exchange (C2) and CBOE Stock Exchange (CBSX) will resume on Wednesday, 31 October. The exchanges were closed on Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 as a result of Hurricane Sandy.

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RBI continues to focus on inflation

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, Cavendish Asset Management

The time for a passive approach to investment is long passed

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

SVC2UK wants UK to ‘think big’

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

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