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Quantuma completes eight deals in two weeks

Business advisory firm Quantuma’s corporate finance team has completed a record-breaking eight transactions in the last fortnight, at a combined value of over GBP130 million. Quantuma comprises a 250-strong team, operating across 22 locations around the UK and in selected offshore centres in Cyprus, Mauritius, and the Cayman Islands. In

Foresight’s OEIC platform exceeds GBP1 billion of funds under management

Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed infrastructure asset and private equity investment manager specialising in ESG-oriented strategies, saw the NAV of its three OEICs, FP Foresight UK Infrastructure Income Fund (FIIF), FP Foresight Global Real Infrastructure Fund (GRIF) and FP Foresight Sustainable Real Estate Securities Fund (REF), break through GBP1 billion

EAM hits USD1bn AUM

Emerging Asset Management Ltd (EAM), a provider of turnkey solutions for alternative fund launches, has reached the milestone of USD1 billion in assets under management (AUM). Read the full story at Hedgeweek…  

Groupama Axiom Legacy 21 fund passes EUR500m AuM mark

Groupama Axiom Legacy 21 has reached EUR506 million in assets under management, less than three years after the fund’s launch in 2018.  The fund focuses on the subordinated “legacy” debt universe, a sector of financial instruments that is constantly being influenced by regulatory changes across the Eurozone. Currently, the majority

Value of VC funds raised in Europe surges 143 per cent in five years USD49bn

Data presented by Buy Shares indicates the value of funds raised by venture capitalists in Europe surged by 147.78 per cent between 2016 and 2020. Last year recorded the highest value in a decade at USD49 billion, a growth from 2019’s USD42 billion. In 2018, the value was USD33.01 billion

Carlyle Group

Carlyle reports USD518.8 million fourth-quarter profit

Washington-based Carlyle Group reported a USD518.8 million fourth-quarter profit on the back of strong asset sales at the end of last year, including its divestment of a 50 percent stake in streetwear fashion brand Supreme to VF Corporation as part of a USD2.1 billion deal in November. VF Corporation already

Venture capital performance at new high despite pandemic

Returns from venture funds globally reached a record level in Q2 2020, despite the Covid-19 crisis, and remained high as the year progressed, according to eFront’s latest Quarterly Private Equity Performance report. Up to the end of Q3, 2020 has been an exceptional year for venture capital performance, with funds

Francisco Partners tops 2020 HEC-DowJones Private Equity Performance Ranking

Francisco Partners has been named the top-performing firm in the 2020 HEC-DowJones Private Equity Performance Ranking.  The San Francisco-headquartered tech specialist came top out of 529 private equity (PE) firms analysed, delivering an aggregate performance that was 2.40 standard deviations above the average. Genstar Capital Partners, and Vitruvian Partners were

Par Equity ups investment activity to GBP12.4m in 2020

Par Equity, an Edinburgh-based investment manager specialising in early-stage technology businesses with high growth potential, increased its new investment activity to a record GBP12.4 million in 2020.  Despite the challenges of a year dominated by Covid-19, the award-winning company also continued its run of successful exits, which means it has

More than 150 clients sign up to Eze Eclipse

SS&C Technologies Holdings has signed on more than 150 clients to Eze Eclipse, SS&C Eze’s cloud-based front-to-back office investment management platform. Read the full story at Hedgeweek…

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