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AI beat supply chain as number one value driver in 2020

EY’s 2021 Global Private Equity Divestment Study, which was released last week, found that the pandemic has accelerated changes in attitudes to factors that are now affecting the valuation of businesses – in particular digitalisation and ESG metrics.  The report looked at how private equity is refining exit strategies for stronger

Richard Chou

Appetite for diversification to underpin HK progress

Hong Kong recently introduced regulatory reforms, policies and incentives to drive growth and increase Hong Kong’s attractiveness as a fund domicile. The newly adopted Limited Partnership Fund Ordinance (LPF) bill allows Hong Kong’s private equity firms to launch limited partnership funds. Already, there are signs that firms are taking advantage

Marlin Equity Partners backs Exegy-Vela merger

Exegy Incorporated, a specialist in low-latency solutions for global market data, predictive trading signals, and hardware-acceleration technology, and Vela Trading Systems (Vela), a provider of data and execution technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, have merged business operations in an agreement backed by Marlin Equity Partners, a global investment firm

Jean-François Le Ruyet, Quilvest Private Equity

It takes two to tango…

Limited partners (LPs) are increasingly turning to data warehouses to improve the way they receive and analyse large amounts of data from private equity managers, to help overcome the challenge of non-standardisation. 

Tom Hunt, Preqin

Preqin appoints new CTO to ‘accelerate technology transformation’

Preqin, a specialist in alternative assets data, tools and insights, has appointed Tom Hunt as its new Chief Technology Officer.  In addition to scaling up Preqin’s technology efforts, Hunt will focus on further developing the company’s solutions and data services to continue to provide the alternatives industry with market-leading data

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What next for the role of data analytics in private markets?

What trends are emerging in the field of data analytics? What are the various ways that managers are actively using analytical tools, as part of their day-to-day  fund management activities? And what are the some of the best practices GPs need to consider, as they look to introduce more analytical

David Holden-White, Techspert.io

How primary insights fuel investment decision-making

By David Holden-White, co-founder & managing director of techspert.io â€“ Investors have long sought data from primary research to get an edge in their decision-making. Whether gathered through surveys, focus groups, panels or qualitative interviews, insights from individuals with lived experience of the relevant problems, markets, technologies and services, are hugely valuable. They

McKay Brothers offers ultra low latency private bandwidth between Illinois and Asia

McKay Brothers International (MBI), a specialist in lowest latency wireless telecommunications networks, is now offering private bandwidth between Aurora, Illinois and major exchanges in Asia.  Wherever possible, the company leverages its wireless expertise in combination with fibre for ultra-low latency circuits. McKay end points in Asia include major trading centres

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