HS Group, one of the largest providers of long term capital to alternative asset management firms, has formed a strategic partnership with sustainability focused asset manager, Mercator Partners.

Carlyle Group’s credit arm has invested a combined $1.5 billion in the debt of two of the highest profile deals of the year so far, the buyout of Citrix Systems Inc and Nielsen Holdings Plc, according to a report by Bloomberg. The report cites unnamed sources as revealing that Carlyle

Moonfare, a digital global private equity investment platform, has become the latest fund provider to support the Greater Share education model. Greater Share is an innovative UK-based initiative that aims to combine philanthropy with private equity to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in long-term grants for education charities around

Alternative investments firms saw a significant increase in interest in 2022, according to Peregrine Communications’ second annual Alts 50 report assessing the integrated marketing communications (IMC) performance of the alternative investment management industry. The report found that nearly three-in-four (74%) firms saw increasing brand awareness over time. This is in

TPG Pace Beneficial Finance Corp, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) backed by private equity investor TPG, is shutting down operations having failed to find a suitable merger targets according to a report by Reuters.

Playfair Capital and Global Ventures have launched ‘Female Founder Office Hours’ across MENA – with 150 of the world’s leading venture capital funds, including: Atomico, Balderton, Creandum, EQT Ventures, Firstminute, Localglobe, Northzone, Notion and Seedcamp – hosting virtual mentoring sessions for over 400 women founders from across MENA, the UK

Mega-buyout deals are becoming increasing difficult to execute due to problems in “getting the equity”, according to Orlando Bravo, the billionaire co-founder of software and tech-focused private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo. A report by BNN Bloomberg cites an interview with Bravo on the sidelines of this week’s IPEM private

ECI Partners, a growth-focused mid-market private equity firm, has had a strong 12 months, completing 10 exits and generating an average gross return of 4.2x over the last year. Together, these exits delivered £1.3 billion of proceeds, and include the recent sale of MiQ, one of the largest global programmatic

C Capital is planning to raise $500 million for investments in  blockchain assets as well as the credit and private equity spaces on the assumption that the prices of both digital assets and private companies are bottoming out, according to a report by Bloomberg.