Borealis Infrastructure, the infrastructure investment advisory and management arm of OMERS, the Canadian-based pension plan for Ontario’s municipal employees, will now operate as OMERS Infrastructure Management Inc (OMERS Infrastructure). “The name OMERS Infrastructure helps the global marketplace recognize our direct connection to the more than 470,000 members of OMERS, on
Club deals, often used by private equity managers prior to the ’08 financial crisis, are a thing of the past. The new kid on the block is the co-investment deal, which over the last four or five years has been gaining real traction with institutional investors. Speaking with Private Equity
The waterfalls debate among private equity players has always been presented as a choice between two opposing styles. It doesn’t have to be that way, say Gaurav Marwah and Hugh Stacey of Augentius… At Niagara Falls, a tradition among intrepid daredevils developed in the early 1900s to go over the
More and more institutions are turning to private equity for the first time, in search of investment returns that are increasingly hard to find elsewhere. Commitments to private investment strategies have grown from an estimated USD180 billion in commitments in 2009 to over USD480 billion in 2016. Many investors believe
Maven Capital Partners, manager of the GBP20 million Finance Durham Fund, is open for business in the North East after moving into Salvus House at Aykley Heads, a new GBP3.4m office building run by Business Durham. With a newly recruited local team in place, Maven is supporting Durham-based businesses by
By Gaurav Marwah, Technical Director, and Hugh Stacey, Executive Director, Investor Solutions, Augentius – Sustained top performance means continued evolution and change. Technology became ever more accessible in the 1990s when personal computers began appearing in every home. But if you’re a tech-savvy person today, you’re not using a dial-up
Lawyers from Carey Olsen’s Guernsey corporate team have recently advised Pearl Diver Capital on the establishment of three registered, closed-ended funds. Collectively known as PDC Opportunities Fund VII, the funds are targeting commitments of USD500 million to invest in a diversified portfolio of tranches of collateralised loan obligations (CLOs) issued
HC Technologies, a Chicago-based principal trading firm with offices in New York City and London, has launched a private equity arm, HC Private Investments (HCPI). HCPI will make investments in lower-middle market manufacturing companies ranging in size from USD10 to USD100 million in enterprise value focused on consumer and industrial
Wecast Network has formed a Joint Venture (JV) called Seven Stars He Ying Smart Cloud (SSHY), with Beijing HE YING Fund Management Limited (He Ying). The JV, which will be 51 per cent owned by Wecast and be added to the Product Sales Cloud, will focus on several strategic areas
The State Street Global Exchange Private Equity Index (GXPEI) ended 2016 with a moderate quarterly performance, posting an overall gain of 2.58 per cent in the fourth quarter, a slight decrease from the 3.8 per cent return in Q3 2016. Buyout funds posted a strong annual return of 12.52 per
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