The latest MidCapMonitor prepared by the investment bank GCA Altium, which regularly analyses leveraged buyout finance transactions with a credit volume of between EUR20 million and EUR500 million, recorded a 48 per cent share of debt funds in the LBO market in the first half of 2018. Debt funds successfully
A decade-long review of South Korea’s private equity market reveals that investments have generated returns of around 20 per cent, far outstripping the public equity market which has only achieved between 1 and 3 per cent annual returns over the last five years. The new analysis, completed by McKinsey &
Scope has published a new rating methodology for evaluating the quality and competence of individual investment teams within asset management companies. The methodology is applied to investment teams which predominantly invest in liquid, traditional instruments such as shares and bonds, as well as in liquid alternative strategies such as long/short
CUSIP Global Services’ (CGS) CUSIP Issuance Trends Report for June 2018, which tracks the issuance of new security identifiers as an early indicator of debt and capital markets activity, has revealed a found a fourth straight monthly increase in requests for new municipal bond identifiers, while CUSIP request volume for corporate
The UK’s tech industry is leading the way in the creation of billion-dollar businesses despite Brexit fears, according to research released today by technology investment bank GP Bullhound. In the past year, the UK has added six billion-dollar tech companies worth USD12.4 billion to its club of 26, more than
The market for initial public offerings in Canada crested the halfway point of 2018 with just more than CAD1 billion of new equity raised – a market characterised as ‘slow and steady’, according to the latest quarterly PwC Canada survey of the Canadian IPO market, published today. Eleven new issues
Investment professionals, financial executives and mergers and acquisition execs are increasingly using ‘alternative’ data to obtain a competitive edge. Satellite images of shopping centre parking lots, trucking schedules, mobile phone usage patterns and more can offer insights that create an edge in finding investment opportunities, vetting acquisition targets and closing
Founded in 2002, the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA) has gone from strength to strength in the alternative investment education arena. William Kelly (pictured), CAIA CEO, joined in 2014 and declares that, while it’s been an interesting run, the value proposition of alternatives is alive and well. Kelly
CEPRES has released its latest analytics of the private markets landscape showing the increasing dominance of the largest private equity firms on their PE.Analyzer investment network. Of 5,195 funds active on the platform, 80 per cent of the capital is now being raised by only 20 per cent of larger
LGT Capital Partners reports that European alternatives managers’ adoption of ESG principals has increased. The sixth annual ESG Report assessed some 294 managers globally, grading them on how successfully they have integrated environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into their investment activities. The report found that the majority, at
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