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Pharos Capital Group, a private equity firm based in Dallas and Nashville, has acquired telepsychiatry services provider FasPsych in partnership with the company's founder, Ed Irby.
Irby, along with the company’s management team, rolled a significant equity stake in conjunction with the transaction.
FasPsych, founded in 2007 and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, manages a specialised pool of contracted psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners from across the country to provide telepsychiatry services via real-time, interactive televideo communication.
Services are primarily provided in the Southwest US to hospitals, community mental health centres, residential mental health centres and various other mental
Manulife Investments is introducing the Manulife International Equity Private Trust and a Series F for the Manulife Dollar-Cost Averaging Fund (DCAF).
The Manulife International Equity Private Trust will be part of the Manulife Private Investment Pools, which now has a lower minimum entry point of USD100,000.
Launched in December 2012, Manulife Private Investment Pools offer investment pools spanning a range of asset classes.
The portfolios are managed by asset managers at Manulife Asset Management and Mawer Investment Management. The Manulife International Equity Private Trust is invested primarily in equity securities of companies located outside of Canada and the
The first half of 2016 has seen an overall shift towards larger private equity deals with total deal value up 2 per cent and volume slipping by 17 per cent, according to SL Capital’s Q2 2016 Private Equity Barometer.
The number of European private-equity-backed deals declined by 8 per cent in the second quarter of 2016 from 381 transactions in Q1 to 350. Combined deal value improved in the second quarter, rising by 66 per cent.
The aggregate value of buyouts in the year to Q2 2016 (EUR107.4 billion) was down a nominal 0.2 per cent on the previous 12
Data visualisation and analysis specialist PlanetRisk has acquired Analytic Strategies, a provider of enterprise analytics services to the federal government.
With this acquisition and the addition of Analytic Strategies’ expertise in enterprise analytics, data system management, operations research, supply chain management and intelligence analysis, PlanetRisk expands its suite of analytic capabilities.
“At the core of this acquisition are highly valuable data analytics capabilities that will allow PlanetRisk to further expand its robust services in big data engineering, advanced analytics, geospatial business intelligence, social network analysis and enterprise risk modeling,” says Paul McQuillan, president and CEO of PlanetRisk. “The addition
Press Ganey, a healthcare performance improvement company, is to be acquired by EQT Equity fund EQT VII, part of the global private equity group EQT.
Under the terms of the agreement, EQT will acquire all of Press Ganey’s common stock.
Shareholders of record will receive USD40.50 in cash per share of Press Ganey common stock, resulting in an enterprise value of approximately USD2.35 billion.
The offer price represents a 20 per cent premium to the year to date volume-weighted average price and a 62 per cent premium to the initial public offering price for the common stock.
Sverica Capital Management’s Sverica Fund IV has acquired a majority stake in RMS Healthcare Management, a provider of management services to Med First Immediate Care and Family Practice.
The transaction marks Sverica’s second investment made from Fund IV. Cadiz Capital also participated in the transaction.
Headquartered in Jacksonville, North Carolina, Med First provides primary care, urgent care and occupational medicine services via 13 clinic locations across rural North Carolina and South Carolina. The company addresses the unmet healthcare needs of rural populations through a hybrid primary care and urgent care model. Med First is a Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH)
Vestar Capital Partners, in partnership with management, has acquired Mobile Technologies Inc (MTI), a provider of mobile device security and display technologies, from Hammond, Kennedy, Whitney & Company (HKW).
Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Founded nearly 40 years ago, MTI operates in three business segments: Retail Merchandising (solutions that display, power, and secure mobile devices within the retail environment); ArmorActive (engineered solutions that empower tablets and smartphones for enterprise mobility and connectivity applications); and Global Services (installation, preventive maintenance, on-demand break-fix, and contact centre services to support businesses’ retail and enterprise mobile device deployments worldwide).
OST Energy, an independent engineering consultancy, has teamed with Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and solar energy company Lightsource Renewable Energy to bring Europe’s largest floating photovoltaic (PV) solar project to completion.
A 6.3 Megawatt peak (MWp) array floating on the Queen Elizabeth II reservoir west of London, is now providing a source of clean energy to water utilities company, Thames Water. It is the first floating solar project to secure European bank financing.
Thames Water will buy all energy generated by the project as part of a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Lightsource.
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Strong exit environments in both Europe and Asia helped private equity and venture capital funds in emerging markets and developed markets outside the US outperform public markets in those regions in 2015, according to global investment adviser Cambridge Associates.
Emerging market PE and VC returns beat non-US developed market PE and VC returns, in part because of a weakening euro, which brought down non-US developed market returns when measured in US dollars.
The Cambridge Associates Global ex US Developed Markets Private Equity and Venture Capital Index returned 2.0 per cent in USD terms in Q4, bringing the return for
One of the biggest issues with risk when it comes to investing is that investors will invariably think about it in binary terms; what is the level of risk? Is it too high or too low? Of greater import, however, is understanding the composition of risk.
Given where the funds industry is today, as end investors’ return expectations increase they become increasingly limited in the type of risk that they can take. This has the unintended consequence of decreasing the efficiency of the overall portfolio as it becomes more and more concentrated in one type of risk.
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