In a poll of senior private equity executives by KPMG, nearly half of the executives pointed to North America as offering the best investment options, despite the perceived consensus that investment opportunities are ripest among the emerging markets. Of the private equity executives surveyed at the SuperReturn US 2010 Conference
SV Life Sciences has held the final closing of its newest fund, SV Life Sciences Fund V. The fund closed with total commitments of over USD523m, well exceeding its target of USD400m. SV Life Sciences’ fifth international life sciences fund brings the firm’s total funds under management to over USD2.0bn,
Mary Chris Gay (pictured), portfolio manager of the Legg Mason US Equity Fund, explains how low inflation rates, slack in the economy and continuing high rates of unemployment have put the US in a ‘sweet spot’ of the equity investment cycle… Whilst we don’t believe the US will necessarily lead
Andrew Milligan, head of global strategy at Standard Life Investments, argues that it will take time before the effectiveness – or otherwise – of the UK’s proposed new structure financial for financial regulation becomes clear. Anyone who flies into Edinburgh airport sees one of the great sights of Victorian engineering:
GlobeOp Financial Services, a provider of business process outsourcing, financial technology services and analytics to hedge funds and other asset managers, had assets under administration of USD121bn at 31 May 2010, an increase of nearly 50 per cent over the last 12 months. GlobeOp added 16 new middle, back office
Acturis, a provider of insurance technology solutions, has received a minority investment from Summit Partners, a growth equity investor. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Acturis, founded in 2000 and headquartered in London, provides technology solutions to general insurance brokers, underwriters and affinity networks in the UK
Guernsey’s position as a leading fund domicile has been further endorsed by a series of new administrators and managers establishing a presence in the island. J.P. Morgan and BNY Mellon have both added their names to the roster of fund administrators in Guernsey. BlueCrest Capital Management – one of Europe’s
New York University plans to create a USD20m venture fund to spur the commercialisation of select technologies developed at NYU and to provide seed funding for start-up companies based on those technologies. The fund – which will be almost entirely funded from external sources – is expected to make
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has sold its stake in Kylmar, a designer and manufacturer of sensor and optical surveillance systems for military and security applications. The Andover-based company has been acquired for an undisclosed sum by General Dynamics UK. The deal provides an attractive return for LDC, which
Linden, a Chicago-based healthcare focused private equity firm, has completed fundraising for Linden Capital Partners II, which closed with USD375m of committed capital and exceeded its target of USD300m and initial cap of USD350m. Linden’s second fund continues the strategy from its first fund, executed through industry specialisation in healthcare
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