Taliance, an analytics software provider in the alternative investment marketplace, has selected Hipercept, to serve as its channel partner for North and South America. Taliance’s software solution, GlobalAsset, complements the technology infrastructure of alternative asset investment firms through real-time, dynamic forecasting, scenario modelling, and consolidated analytics capability for the front and middle office. Using GlobalAsset, customers in over 16 countries have demonstrably improved the performance of their international investment portfolios.   “Alternative asset investment firms worldwide have long demanded fund and asset analytics technologies that are able transcend the obvious shortcomings of home-grown spreadsheets and disparate data,” says Damien Georges

Oakley Capital Investments Limited is to dispose of Verivox to ProSiebenSat.1 (P7S1), for an initial cash consideration of EUR200 million with further consideration of up to EUR50 million dependent on Verivox’s financial performance in 2015.  OCIL will continue to hold a minority interest in Verivox, through its commitment to Fund II, as will Verivox's founders. P7S1's holding in Verivox will be 80 per cent following completion of the transaction.   The transaction is expected to generate a 15x gross money multiple for Fund I, with an IRR of 73 per cent, based on a company value of EUR200 million, increasing

A more coherent regulatory environment is needed if investors are to prevent “runaway climate change”, according to Donald MacDonald, who chairs the Institutional Investor Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). “We have the capital, but the right policies and regulatory frameworks are not in place,” said MacDonald. “In many cases energy regulation, pensions regulation and insurance regulation are simply not integrated. The IIGCC has been engaging with the European Commission about the perverse impact that well-intentioned regulation might have, for example, on issues around energy unbundling and pension and insurance fund solvency.”   MacDonald was addressing the sixth annual Private Equity

Union Group and China Communication Construction Company, one of the biggest engineering and construction companies in the world, have signed a deal to develop infrastructure projects across the Latin America region. The two companies form a consortium that will first tender for a Uruguay Government contract to restore and maintain a 140km railway track, involving an initial investment of around USD150 million. The contract will run for 30 years.    Union Group and China Communication Construction Company plan to finance and develop ports, railways, highways and other infrastructure across Latin America.   Union Group is a privately-owned holding company with

Funds advised by CVC Capital Partners have signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in international musical and theatre group, Stage Entertainment.  Under the terms of the transaction, CVC will acquire a 60 per cent stake from the company’s founder, Joop van den Ende, who will remain a 40 per cent shareholder in the business and as co-chairman.   Founded 17 years ago, Stage Entertainment is the market leader in musical theatre in Continental Europe, responsible for globally acclaimed productions including the Lion King, Mamma Mia!, the Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables, which together attract more than

Belgian-Dutch investment company Waterland Private Equity Investments (Waterland) is to provide growth capital to the Intelligent Group, the Belgian market leader in developing and providing hosting services.  Intelligent was founded in 1999 by Jonas Dhaenens under the Combell brand and has grown to become the most important provider of hosting services in Belgium in recent years, with a strong presence in the Netherlands. The company is primarily known for its strong hosting brands Combell and Unitt. Combell focuses on a diverse offering of hosting services ranging from domain names, e-mail and webhosting to managed hosting server applications and related products,