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BlueMountain Capital Management has entered into a consulting agreement with Harvard economics professor Jeremy C Stein, who was a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from May 2012 to May 2014.
Professor Stein will advise BlueMountain on a range of issues, including implications of monetary and macroprudential policies, financial regulation and market evolution, and risk and capital management.
"We're very lucky to have the opportunity to work with Jeremy," says Andrew Feldstein, CEO of BlueMountain. "He has been widely recognised by leaders in government, academia and the private sector for his talent and impact.
iAngels has raised a USD2.25 million Seed Round led by Roman Abramovich's fund, Millhouse Capital.
iAngels is the 15th company to successfully raise funds through the iAngels online platform, raising USD1.25 million from some of Israel's most successful angels, and an additional USD1 million from its global community of investors within two days.
"We are very confident in the elite angels we've identified and their ability to spot the winners," says Shelly Hod Moyal, Founding Partner at iAngels. "In fact, we've structured our business model to take the same risk that investors take when they invest in Israeli startups through
Atlas Holdings has acquired Merchants Metals, the second largest fencing manufacturer/distributor in North America, from Oldcastle, the North American arm of CRH plc.
The company manufactures and distributes fencing products for commercial, residential and industrial uses.
"We are pleased to add Merchants Metals to the Atlas family of companies," says Ed Fletcher, Partner at Atlas Holdings. "For over six decades, Merchants Metals has been the provider of choice for thousands of professional fence contractors, architects and quality building retailers. We are extremely impressed with the company's workforce, its strong commitment to safety and passion for success."
Victory Park Capital Advisors (Victory Park Capital) has been retained by newly formed, UK investment company VPC Speciality Lending (VPC) to serve as investment manager.
VPC completed its initial public offering of ordinary shares on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange on 13 March.
As investment manager, Victory Park Capital will be charged with investing approximately USD300 million in opportunities within the specialty lending market primarily through online lending platforms.
“The significant growth in the specialty lending market through consumer and small business and direct lending electronic platforms and the success of the listing is a
Baird Capital’s UK private equity group has acquired a majority interest in Clearwater Group, a provider of water treatment, hygiene, engineering and pump services to customers across the UK.
As part of the transaction, Baird Capital Managing Director, James Benfield will join the Clearwater board of directors.
Headquartered in Camberley, Surrey, Clearwater provides water solutions and services to estate owners and facilities managers across variety of sectors, including food and beverage, pharmaceutical, industrial and the public sector. The business was founded in 1990 by the CEO Guy Rowley and has grown its operations across the UK and Ireland as
The private debt industry has more than tripled in size since 2006, with assets under management (AUM) increasing from USD152bn to USD465bn as of June 2014. Ryan Flanders, Executive Editor of the newly released 2015 Preqin Global Private Debt Report, examines the growth of the asset class.
The global private debt market, also referred to as the alternative or non-bank lending industry, is fast approaching USD500bn in AUM. The industry has seen steady growth over recent years, spurred on by the growing opportunity of providing private companies with debt financing in the face of bank regulation. One of the
P Schoenfeld Asset Management (PSAM) has submitted two resolutions on behalf of select clients who own 7,500,000 shares of Vivendi , to the company’s Management Board for inclusion on the agenda of the Company's Combined General Meeting to be held on 17 April, 2015.
PSAM's clients also own 3,189,281 additional shares of Vivendi. In aggregate, the shares have a market valuation of approximately EUR236,821,000 as of market-close on Friday, 20 March, 2015. PSAM has been a Vivendi shareholder since July 2012.
PSAM believes that Vivendi is significantly undervalued due to its excessive cash holdings, inadequate capital return policy and
Highland Capital Management has launched Highland Alternative Investors, an alternative investment platform that will encompass all of Highland’s existing non-traditional, liquid alternative funds.
Michael Gregory will oversee the new platform as Global Head and CIO of Highland Alternative Investors.
“Highland has been offering investors access to liquid alternative solutions for over a decade,” says Mark Okada, co-Founder & CIO of Highland Capital Management. “The introduction of this platform will further strengthen our offerings and ability to drive results as well as allow Highland to better offer customised solutions across portfolios to investors.”
In addition to his new role, Michael Gregory
Barbour ABI has been granted a contract extension by HM Government to continue to publish the Government Construction and National Infrastructure Pipelines through until August 2016.
Barbour ABI was originally awarded the contract in September 2012, following a formal competitive tender process, because of their proven data collection processes and their existing knowledge in researching and tracking construction projects.
Since 2011, the published Pipelines have expanded to include more data on projects and programmes across departments. The commitment to making the data more user friendly using mapping and timeline technology – as well as promoting the pipeline more widely across
AlphaPipe has launched Form ADV Change Reports a new service that delivers to investors a monthly change report of all changes made to an asset manager's Form ADV filing.
"Form ADV is publicly available and should be one of your first lines of defence in monitoring your asset managers," says West Chapman, AlphaPipe's CEO formerly of Goldman Sachs, where he served on the Liquid Markets Investment Committee, led the Risk team and built the Operational Due Diligence team within Goldman Sachs Asset Management's (GSAM) external manager businesses.
"Unfortunately, current access to Form ADV makes monitoring cumbersome to impossible. Our monthly
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