Intel Capital, Intel Corporation’s global investment and M&A organisation, has unveiled a USD100 million Intel Capital AppUp Fund. The fund will invest in software tools and services companies developing innovative applications and digital content for the mobile and PC ecosystem available at the Intel AppUp centre, Intel’s convenient, personalised and

Vision Capital announces has successfully completed the debt refinancing of BrightHouse, a leading UK rent-to-own retailer, with over GBP100m of senior debt facilities. The financing was provided by a consortium of Lloyds Banking Group, GE Capital and Ares Capital Europe and will be used for repayment of existing financing and

Four years after the meltdown of the US sub-prime mortgage market and the credit crunch, allocators and investors still face a market environment that stubbornly refuses to return to ‘normal’.   Do market players need to learn new rules for a permanently changed environment? Do traditional assumptions about risk and

Neuberger Berman Group has raised approximately USD720 million for NB Crossroads 2010 Fund, a fund focused on investing in premier private equity funds and co-investments alongside premier funds. Since January 2010, Neuberger Berman has raised over USD1.5 billion in its private equity fund of funds platform. The firm began investing

The Cambridge Associates LLC Australia Private Equity and Venture Capital Index (CA Australia Index) continues to outperform the S&P/ASX 300 Index over multiple time horizons. The CA Australia Index, which measures private equity and venture capital returns in Australia, also outperforms other key asset benchmarks over a number of different

Newly-launched AltResources is to provide private equity (PE) funds with accounting, tax, and compliance services. The firm is led by founder and managing director John Wiencek, who was previously managing director and head of North American operations for Mourant Fund Services, a leading fund administrator that was acquired by State

The level of excess return (alpha) from private equity investments compared with those in stock markets is largely dependent on the fund manager, according to a new study, "Finding Alpha 2.0" by Golding Capital Partners and HEC School of Management in Paris. According to the research, which is based on