Managers
“Global deal activity jumped 47% between 2013 and 2014, highlighted by large deals,” wrote John Primack in an article for Fortune.com. “Global merger and acquisition activity hit USD3.5 trillion in 2014, which is up 47% from the year before.”
Primack noted that the data from Thomson Reuters “suggests that large deals in 2014 – 95 valued at USD5 billion or more – were a key driver, given that the overall number of global M&A transactions only climbed by 6%.” Of the 15 largest acquisitions, 10 were from companies based in the United States, “where volume climbed by 51.4% to USD1.53
Cordiant, a leading emerging market private debt fund manager, has raised USD350 million at the final close of its latest debt fund, the Cordiant Emerging Loan Fund IV (CELF IV).
The fund’s primary focus will be on senior, secured loans issued to emerging market private sector borrowers, with an emphasis on diversification across countries and sectors.
Investors in the fund include insurance companies, pension funds and other provident funds.
CELF IV will allow institutional investors to take advantage of the growing imbalance in the emerging markets between the escalating demand for bank style funding and the shrinking balance
BIL Manage Invest (BMI) has selected Linedata Front Office Platform to manage the firm’s complete front-to-back asset management workflow across their full suite of investment funds.
With an increased emphasis on risk management in the industry, AIFM Directive and UCITS regulation continue to impose controls and transparency with the end goal of protecting the financial world against systemic risk. While many management companies seek comprehensive risk management around all aspects of their front-to-back activities, they also look to increase efficiencies, and provide added-value to their clients while keeping costs at an acceptable level. This is particularly true with funds under
2015 will not be any easier for fund managers from an operational perspective. The raft of regulatory reporting under Annex IV and EMIR is set to increase, depending on the size of the manager, and the barriers to entry look set to remain high for new managers; both from a compliance perspective and investor expectations on operational infrastructure.
After a lukewarm performance in 2014, where the average hedge fund returned less than 4 per cent, and large institutional investors such as CalPERS and Dutch health care sector pension fund PFZW divested their holdings, 2015 is, in many ways, a year
Strong performance in Jersey’s funds sector in 2014 has seen the value of fund assets administered in the jurisdiction increase by almost one fifth year-on-year to reach the highest level in seven years.
The latest figures for Jersey’s finance industry, collated by the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) for the period ending December 2014, show that the net asset value (NAV) of funds under administration in Jersey grew by GBP23.5bn over the final quarter of last year to now stand at GBP228.9bn, representing an increase of 19% compared to December 2013 and the highest level since December 2008. In addition,
Pan-African private equity firm 8 Miles has acquired a 42 per cent stake in Orient Bank Limited, a mid-tier commercial bank in Uganda, from Keystone Bank, a state-owned Nigerian bank.
The financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed.
The investment will be made alongside the founders of the bank, who have increased their shareholding in the bank to 49 per cent. Orient Bank Limited was founded in 1993 and provides banking, stockbroking and other related financial services to retail and corporate customers in Uganda, a country in which 80 per cent of the population is currently estimated to
Amicus Finance, a specialist in short term lending solutions, has acquired City-based brokerage Norton Folgate Capital Group Limited including Norton Folgate Capital Consulting for an undisclosed sum.
Amicus has secured an initial stake of 75% in Norton Folgate Capital Consulting LLP with the remaining 25% being held by the incumbent partners.
Amicus has committed significant working capital and resources to build the Norton Folgate business over the next five years to become a strong and sustainable provider in the areas of SME asset finance and leasing, HNWI financing and SME business loans. Norton Folgate will continue to operate
Asahi Kasei Corporation has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire Polypore International, a manufacturer of microporous membranes, which currently has two business segments: Energy Storage and Separations Media.
In conjunction with this transaction, Polypore has also entered into a definitive asset purchase agreement to sell the assets and liabilities related to the Separations Media segment to 3M Company (NYSE:MMM, hereinafter: “3M”) for cash consideration of approximately USD 1.0 billion
Asahi Kasei, through a US subsidiary, will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Polypore’s common stock for USD 60.50 per share in the form of a cash merger,
Red Rocks Capital’s Global Listed Private Equity (GLPE) index continues to provide long-term performance comparable with the Cambridge Associates Global Buyout & Growth Equity Index.
GLPE Index has approximately USD500 million in ETF tracking assets, and was the first US-based investable index to monitor global listed private equity companies.
The Cambridge Associates Global Buyout & Growth Equity Index is a widely followed private equity benchmark and is an end-to-end calculation based on data compiled from 1,753 global (US & ex US) buyout and growth equity funds including fully liquidated partnerships, formed between 1986 and 2014.
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Baring Private Equity Asia has held the closing of The Baring Asia Private Equity Fund VI, a private equity fund with USUSD3,988,000,000 in commitments.
Fund VI, which reached its first close of USD3.3 billion last year within four months of launching, closed at its hard cap and was heavily oversubscribed. Baring Asia is one of the oldest and most established firms in the region and has been investing in Asia since 1997.
Fund VI will continue the firm’s strategy of partnering with management teams and entrepreneurs to support their growth in Asia through operational improvement, industry consolidation and cross-border
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