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PwC enhances data analytics for hedge fund and PE clients

PwC’s UK Deals Insights and Analytics team has chosen Doorda Data Products to augment its analytics capabilities for hedge fund, private equity, and corporate clients. Doorda researches, consolidates, links and updates open data from hundreds of publishers into a cloud data platform. By incorporating data from Doorda, PwC says its UK

GPs to focus on value creation in choppy markets

The private equity industry is shifting its focus from deal-making to value creation, driven by the persistent uncertainty across financial markets and global macroeconomics. As a result, general partners will need to work to maximize the value of their existing investments through a number of key strategies.

Managers and investors demanding more flexibility

Investors are demonstrating a keen appetite for alternative investments. However, they are simultaneously showing a need for a certain level of liquidity. This is leading to a growing demand for semi-opened-ended alternative funds being launched in European fund domiciles.

Manco growth reaffirms Luxembourg’s position as a fund domicile

Investment managers have seen their regulatory and compliance burden inch upwards for years. The use of management companies in jurisdictions like Luxembourg has sought to ease this load. Investment managers are welcoming the additional support provided by a third-party ManCo, allowing them to concentrate on their core capabilities of managing

Legal due diligence for investing in Luxembourg alternative investment fund structures

With the increasing popularity of alternative investments, in particular in the areas of private equity, private debt and real estate, we have witnessed that there is more demand in realising such investments via Luxembourg alternative investment fund structures (the “AIFs”) by international eligible investors. In the EU, AIFs were introduced

Data exchange takes centre stage

The alternative investment industry is developing new ways of sharing data across the whole value chain – from portfolio companies and holdings to funds and investors – and from asset servicers to asset managers and asset owners. Luxembourg, as a fund domicile, has been building its niche of expertise in

Rising risk leads to greater need for visibility and control

Investors are calling for greater visibility into their portfolios, as well as more control, fuelled by political and economic instability, and volatile markets. Due diligence is of the highest priority as investors seek to mitigate risk and identify stable and reliable general partners (GPs) to work with.

Innovation in fund vehicles to support broader distribution

Private equity fund-raising is expected to be more challenging, in the face of a global recession. However, opportunities in real estate and private credit funds are forecast to grow at a fast pace, as progress in technology and services supports this expansion.

Apex Group closes Maitland acquisition

Apex Group has completed its acquisition of the fund services and third-party management company business operations of Maitland International Holdings, an international fund services provider.

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