Funds advised by Apax Partners have entered an agreement to purchase 100 per cent of mobile phone operator Orange Switzerland from France Telecom Orange for approximately CHF2 billion (EUR1.6 billion). The transaction, which is subject to the approval of the Swiss competition authorities, will be submitted to the Board of
A partial break up of the Euro is inevitable, with Greece the most likely to default and leave the single currency in 2012, according to fund manager Managing Partners Limited (MPL). The Euro was always going to be tested in an economic downturn, for the same reasons the European Currency
The Private Equity Wire team is taking its customary seasonal break from 24 December and will reopen on Tuesday 3 January. Best wishes of the season to all our readers.
Maven Capital Partners (Maven) as manager of the Capital for Enterprise Fund A (CfE Fund or the Fund) has successfully exited its GBP1.5m mezzanine investment in Applied Language Solutions (ALS), a leading UK based language services provider, following the sale of ALS to the Capita Group. The exit has realised
The Irish Funds Industry Association (IFIA) has issued a voluntary corporate governance code for Irish authorised collective investment schemes (CIS) and Irish authorised management companies. This follows an invitation by the Central Bank for the funds industry to develop and apply its own corporate governance code in place of the
Commodities have recovered this week along with equities, led by agriculture and energy prices. 2011 will be remembered by the dichotomy between energy and non-energy commodities, says Mike McGlone, Senior Director, Commodity Indexing, S&P Indices… It was a bad year for dictators, terrorists, bankers and global equities but the S&P
With the Addax & Oryx Group (AOG), Swedfund is creating the largest private sector agriculture investment in Sierra Leone, helping meet a major objective of the Government of Sierra Leone and delivering significant development effects. Swedfund, Sweden’s Development Finance Institution (DFI), has committed EUR10m to Addax Bioenergy Sierra Leone (Addax).
Apex Fund Services (UK) Limited has received authorisation by the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) as a Fund Operator. As a Fund Operator, Apex’s UK office is now one of a small number of administrators in the country that is authorised to provide independent administration services to regulated collective investment
The first year of this decade has been a volatile one, with headlines dominated by the crisis in the Eurozone. The average investment company was down 5% over the last twelve months of volatile markets, although it was up 54% over three years following the lows of 2008. All figures
As 2011 draws to an end, it is interesting to note that eight of the Top 10 performers on the Lyxor Managed Account Platform (Lyxor MAP) belong to the systematic and model-based kind of managers. Machine 8 – Men 2, says Stefan Keller (pictured), Head of Managed Account Platform Research
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