Schroders’ Chief Investment Officer, Alan Brown comments on Friday’s market volatility… Two items of news lie behind the continuing market rout: the sharp decline in the Philadelphia Index and the news that other Eurozone countries were likely to seek to negotiate collateral arrangements from Greece to match the deal that
Just under two-thirds of infrastructure funds charge management fees of 2% on funds that are currently raising or that have closed in the recent past despite pressure for lower fees from investors with 62% believing that management fees are too high. The data was collected as part of the 2011
Alex Orus (pictured), CIO, Blue Diamond Asset Management, on the current ‘flight to safety’ prompted by the recent political and market turmoil… The political and market turmoil has caused many investors to aggressively reduce or exit equity markets in favour of what the global media and investors call “safe assets”
Novem Vermögensverwaltungs has sold Novem Beteiligungs (Novem) to funds managed by private equity firm Bregal Capital LLP. Novem is a globally active manufacturer of high-quality decorative components and functional elements for vehicle interiors, with headquarters in Vorbach, Germany. As the world market leader for fine wood decorative components, Novem supplies
Hewlett Packard’s proposed USD10bn takeover of Autonomy signals a shift of focus from hardware to software for HP, says Tim Daniels, TMT Strategist at Olivetree Securities… It would make perfect sense for one of the big database players to want to own Autonomy – the software is indeed unique and
3i, an international investor focused on private equity, infrastructure and debt management, has acquired a minority stake of newly issued shares in TouchTunes Interactive Networks, the world’s largest digital interactive out-of-home entertainment provider, for USD40 million. Current majority shareholder VantagePoint Capital Partners will invest an additional USD5 million. The total
Australian middle-market buyout manager Tasman Capital has selected Geneva-based alternative assets marketing firm MCAM Group to raise capital for the Tasman Capital Partners fund internationally. 

The private equity fund’s target size is AUD200 million with a hard cap of AUD300 million, and will be targeting deals in the Australian and
James Hughes, Senior Market Analyst at Alpari UK, says the proposed Europe-wide financial transactions tax, announced this week and backed by Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy, will have a negative inpact on the City of London… The proposed financial transactions tax isn’t a new concept and has been mentioned before
The number of mergers and acquisitions during the first six months of 2011 (HY11) fell by 15% compared to the same period in 2010, according to Experian. The company’s latest mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and equity capital market (ECM – flotation, rights issue and placements) data has also revealed that
The Q2 2011 IntraLinks Deal Flow Indicator (DFI), which provides an early view of aggregate deal flow activity and trends in the global market, shows a 24 per cent increase in global M&A deal activity compared to Q2 2010. Although activity was up across all regions, including North America, Europe/Middle
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