Law firm Howard Kennedy has advised Puma VCT 12 (managed by Puma Investments, part of the Shore Capital Group) on the launch of its 2015 prospectus. This is the twelfth Puma VCT promoted and managed by the Puma Investments team and sponsored by Howard Kennedy. Puma Investments has a strong
Markit has launched Markit WSO Credit Manager, a credit and portfolio analysis application for investment professionals focused on bank loans. Credit Manager was designed in partnership with CVC Credit Partners and other industry experts. The application helps portfolio managers and credit analysts make investment decisions by centralising the data they
Quercus Assets Selection, which specialises in infrastructure investments with a focus on renewable energy, is to launch two new renewable energy infrastructure funds, bringing the total number of funds in its portfolio to five. The launch of the two new funds will complement the recently launched Quercus European Renewables fund
A new qualification, the Certificate in Finance and Technology (CFT), has launched as the first and only global qualification designed specifically for technologists in financial institutions. The CFT is unique in giving technology professionals in financial services organisations a genuine understanding of the business context in which they operate. By
International law firm Simmons & Simmons has advised the UK Department of Health on the launch of the global Dementia Discovery Fund. The Dementia Discovery Fund is the world’s first venture capital fund dedicated to funding pre-clinical research for a cure or treatment of dementia and is a collaboration between
Hedge fund launches are under the spotlight in this extract from the Preqin Quarterly Update: Hedge Funds, Q3 2015. Alternative mutual funds saw a significant rise in their share of new fund launches in Q3 2015. These structures accounted for 13 per cent of the new launches monitored by Preqin’s
This extract from the Preqin Quarterly Update: Real Estate, Q3 2015 examines current closed-end private real estate funds in market, looking at target capital, primary geographic focus, time spent on the road and a sample of the largest funds currently fundraising. The number of closed-end private real estate funds in
The last quarter’s private equity fundraising is analysed in this extract from the Preqin Quarterly Update: Private Equity, Q3 2015. With the third quarter of the year typically slow for fundraising, it is surprising to see Q3 2015 as the best quarter in 2015 so far in terms of aggregate
Integrated Asset Management (IAM) has launched an infrastructure division under the leadership of Michael Kosiancic, CFA, who has joined the firm as President of IAM Infrastructure Group. Kosiancic has more than 20 years of experience in the infrastructure sector in Canada, with a particular interest in renewable energy. He has
Dunedin has joined the Alliance for Global Growth, a newly launched global network of lower mid-market private equity firms and the first of its kind to operate across Europe and the USA. The Alliance for Global Growth currently includes ten members drawn from Western Europe and the United States. In
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