The real estate funds industry is alive and well from an asset raising perspective. In 2012, private RE funds closed with USD72 billion in committed institutional assets. By 2014, that number had increased by 45 per cent, according to leading alternative asset data provider, Preqin. While this is encouraging, the
SpotHero has closed a USD20 million Series B round led by Insight Venture Partners. SpotHero’s existing investors – Battery Ventures, Bullpen Capital, Chicago Ventures, Draper Associates, OCA Ventures, Pritzker Group Venture Capital and 500 Startups – also participated in the round along with Monkfish Equity, an investment group started by
Preqin’s Real Estate Online provides comprehensive profiles for the 49 institutional investors based in Boston that actively invest in the real estate asset class, collectively representing over USD1.1 trillion in assets under management. The largest proportion of institutional investors are foundations, representing a quarter of investors located in the city.
Private equity firm TA Associates has added investment staff with Amara Suebsaeng, Alex Melamud and Max Cancre rejoining the firm as Vice Presidents in Boston, Menlo Park and London, respectively, while John DiCola has joined the firm as a Vice President in Boston. “We are pleased to welcome John to
ApplePie Capital, the first marketplace lender solely dedicated to the franchise industry, has appointed Jeff Zinn as Head of Capital Markets. Zinn comes to ApplePie Capital from Jefferies & Company, a global investment bank and institutional securities firm, where he served as Managing Director, specialising in structured product sales since
The Scottish Investment Bank (SIB), Scottish Enterprise’s investment arm, has relaunched its co-investment funds, with the aim of investing up to GBP75 million into companies across Scotland over the next three years. By streamlining its co-investment funds from four to two and widening the investment parameters, SIB is increasing flexibility
Fifteen years after the dotcom collapse we see another tech crash approaching. ‘Bubble’ and ‘unicorn’ are entering the mainstream vernacular. We are becoming comfortably numb with tech company overvaluations, says Victor Basta, managing partner at Magister Advisors… The vocabulary has changed (for ‘dotcom’ read ‘unicorn’), the dynamics are different (largely
With most investors believing that small-sized and mid-market buyout funds currently present the best opportunities in private equity, this article from Preqin Private Equity Spotlight, August 2015, examines whether the size of a buyout fund has any significant impact on returns. According to Preqin’s latest investor survey, carried out in
SS&C Technologies Holdings has acquired Citigroup's Alternative Investor Services business, which includes Hedge Fund Services and Private Equity Fund Services, for USD425 million, subject to certain adjustments. "This acquisition is solidly in line with SS&C's strategy of combining organic growth with select, high quality acquisitions. Citi Alternative Investor Services clients
The business of asset management has grown exponentially more complex over the last decade. As system technology and data management improves, managers are devising ever-new investment strategies to find that elusive source of alpha. Bank loan funds, direct lending funds, liquid alternatives, separately managed accounts that offer institutional investors sub-sets
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