Prestige Fund Management and Affiliated companies (Prestige), a specialist direct lending investment management group has recently celebrated the seventh birthday of its “Alternative Finance Fund” by passing USD500 million/GBP350 million in assets under management. Group assets raised since 2008 now stand at approximately USD1.1 billion/GBP780 million. Prestige, focuses on commercial

Private equity and venture capital in ex-US developed markets and emerging markets delivered negative returns in the third quarter of 2015, but managed to outperform public markets in those regions substantially, according to Cambridge Associates. The Cambridge Associates LLC Global ex US Developed Markets Private Equity and Venture Capital Index

Burford Capital has reported a 27 per cent increase in operating profit to USD77.2 millionfor teh year ended 31 December 2015 (2014: USD60.7 million) and 21 per cent increase in profit after tax to USD65.7 million (2014: USD54.2 million), contributing to a 16 per cent ROE. Income increased by 26

In a challenging third quarter for equity investors both public and private, US private equity and venture capital funds each lost ground for the first time in several years, though the latter only fractionally.  Both bested public market equity returns, according to benchmarks published by Cambridge Associates LLC. For the

Questback, a specialist in enterprise feedback management which is 70 per cent owned by private equity firm Reiten & Co, increased enterprise revenues by 40 per cent in 2015. Greater sales were driven by the growing importance of feedback to business competitiveness, the strength of Questback’s powerful, cloud-based platform, and

A recent spate of stock buyback programs in the alternative investment management (AIM) sector could have modest impacts on liquidity and leverage, according to Fitch Ratings.  Three firms have recently implemented share repurchase programs in an effort to improve their public stock valuations. Repurchase activity has been rare in the