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Julien Gervaz, Palico

Secondary PE market primed for strong growth

The secondary market is on an upward trajectory. More institutional investors are looking to streamline their holdings and take an active approach to portfolio management. This, in conjunction with travel restrictions resulting from the Coronavirus pandemic, has led to investors becoming more comfortable with the concept of trusting an online

Katy Bogue, eVestment

Why GPs need to move beyond Excel to move their firms forward

Simply put, portfolio performance data is a GP’s most valuable asset. It is their record of achievement, their recipe for future success, and their best fundraising tool, all in one. That is why it is unfathomable that most GPs are still relying solely on spreadsheets, 30+ year-old software, as their

Barnaby Piggott, Holland Mountain

Achieving one source of truth

When it comes to technology solutions, five to 10 years ago, private capital firms used to try to select a single software vendor to deliver all functional requirements across the front, middle and back office. This approach had limited success. Most vendors had strengths in certain areas but key weaknesses

Private equity steps up its technology adoption

“What is now proved was once only imagined” – William Blake, Auguries of Innocence, 1803 The private equity industry remains a staunchly conservative, relationship-driven industry, fuelled by the operational and financial expertise of deal teams to identify the right companies to invest with and transform.

TORA set to revamp risk arb trading with new equity pairs FX auto hedge solution

TORA, the provider of a front-to-back cloud-based order and execution management system (OEMS), has released its new FX auto-hedging function for equity pairs trading.The new solution sits within TORA’s market-leading equity pairs trading algo suite and delivers advanced operational trading efficiencies. The FX function offers automatic hedging for clients’ cross

Nairobi, Kenya

Vital Capital teams up with USAID to finance businesses in Kenya  

Vital Capital has partnered up with the US Government’s Kenya Investment Mechanism to provide funding to Kenyan agri-businesses that have been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Vital Capital is an impact investment private equity fund focused on companies in sub-Saharan Africa. “We are excited to launch this major collaboration to

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Finance professionals not keen on getting back into the office

London-based financial firms appear to be in no rush to have the majority of their staff back in the office, according to new research by Theta Financial Reporting. Only 800 of Goldman Sachs’s 6,000 London staff have returned, while fewer than 2,000 of the 12,000 at JP Morgan are back in the office,

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