First more jobs and now a resurgent economy – January has seen President Obama’s undeclared re-election campaign make a dream start, says Marcus Bullus (pictured), trading director at MB Capital… The fourth quarter GDP figures may have undershot predictions. But any disappointment should be mitigated by one plain truth –
By Peter Niven – Guernsey has an investment fund industry with a heritage that stretches back half a century. During the past two decades, the sector has seen a gradual yet sustained shift where the balance of business has moved from being largely retail, equity-traded/cash-based schemes to predominantly institutional, alternate
Matrix Private Equity Partners (Matrix) has launched a new GBP21 million linked fundraising across three VCTs it manages. The offer has similar attractions to the first Matrix linked offer last year, which proved to be popular with investors and raised, in aggregate, GBP16.2 million. Mark Wignall, CEO believes that Matrix
Stellus Capital Management, a spin off from the D E Shaw Group, has launched as an independent investment firm. The Stellus team will continue its current strategies of providing secured and unsecured loans to middle market companies and private equity sponsors in a wide range of industries to support growth,
The start of this year looks very different to 2011 and 2010 even though the themes and stress points remain the same: Risk is cheaper, non government net issuance is negative, investor allocation to financials and growth related assets is low, another upturn in the global liquidity cycle is starting
Acquisitions of insolvent businesses in the UK have continued to fall in 2011, according to research by Experian on behalf of the insolvency trade body, R3. The figures show that during 2011, 181 out of a total of 3,146 acquisitions in the UK involved companies acquired out of administration
The majority of private equity fund managers (70 per cent) – regardless of fund size – expect to close only two or three deals during the next 12 months, according to the third annual PErspective private equity study by BDO USA, LLP, one of the nation’s leading accounting and consulting
Bill Crossan (pictured), managing partner at Growth Capital Partners, looks to 2012 and why, despite a gloom-laden economy there is still cause for optimism… We stand in unprecedented times. None of us can be certain what the future holds, but what we can be certain of is that we need
International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has launched a new global financial investors group to deliver a fully integrated offering to global financial investors, including Private Equity, Infrastructure Funds, Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) and Alternative Capital Providers (ACPs). Led by corporate partners Ludwig Leyendecker (pictured) and David Higgins, the new
Oxfam is taking a lead in demonstrating to the financial industry that investments can deliver both social and financial returns, with the creation of a unique investment fund. 

 The Small Enterprise Impact Investment Fund (SEIIF) is a joint initiative between Oxfam and asset management group, Symbiotics. The first fund
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