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Mid-market private equity firm LDC has more than doubled its commitment to The Prince’s Trust to help young people across the UK to create the leading businesses of the future.
A new five-year expanded nationwide partnership with The Prince’s Trust will help up to 10,000 additional young people to start, sustain and grow their own business through an extension of the Enterprise programme. The partnership currently makes LDC the leading corporate supporter of young entrepreneurs at The Prince’s Trust.
LDC first partnered with The Prince’s Trust in 2019 to support its Enterprise programme, which equips young people with the
Petershill Parthjers has reported aggregate partner-firm AuM of $266 billion and aggregate fee-paying partner-firm AuM of $184 billion as at 30 June 2022. Both amounts are unchanged from the levels reported at 31 March 2022.
abrdn, one of Britain’s biggest fund managers is preparing to sell its private equity business according to a report by Sky News. The move is part of an ongoing streamlining of the firm’s operations under chief executive Stephen Bird.
The report says that abrdn, which managed close to £550 billion in assets at the end of 2021, has hired bankers at Rothschild to sell the unit which manages roughly £14 billion in private equity assets.
Bird, who joined abrdn two years ago when the company was still known as Standard Life Aberdeen, has been simplifying the sprawling company by exiting
Warwick Capital Partners, a special situations investment firm, has expanded its presence in the US opening two offices and appointing two partners to drive growth.
Dedicated Swiss blockchain investor Crypto Valley Venture Capital (CV VC) and its ecosystem company CV Labs have opened CV Labs Cape Town, the African region’s first in situ blockchain incubation and ecosystem hub.
As an initiator of Crypto Valley, Switzerland – the world’s most mature blockchain hub, with an admirable regulatory landscape and 14 blockchain Unicorns, the opening of CV Labs Cape Town is a result of CV Labs actioning its expertise to enable blockchain as a transformative tech in Africa.
CV Labs already has blockchain hubs in Switzerland (Zug) and Liechtenstein (Vaduz). This new hub in Africa will soon
Inflexion has further strengthened its ESG commitments during the first half of 2022 by signing the United Nations Global Compact and formalising its commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals whilst also joining the ILPA’s Data Convergence Project.
These commitments come a year after achieving carbon-neutral status and becoming a signatory of the UN’s Principles for Responsible Investment. Inflexion has also joined the Institute of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability.
The Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact are derived from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Labour Organisation’s Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, the
Impax Asset Management (Impax), a specialist asset manager investing in the transition to a more sustainable economy, has appointed Nana Li as head of sustainability & ESG, Asia-Pacific.
Li joins Impax from the Asian Corporate Governance Association (ACGA), where she was research and project director, China. The ACGA is an independent organisation dedicated to working with investors, companies and regulators in the implementation of effective corporate governance practices in Asia-Pacific.
In this newly created role, effective as of 1 July 2022, Nana will be based in Impax’s Hong Kong office and will report to Lisa Beauvilain, head of sustainability
BGF – the UK and Ireland’s most active investor – has reported strong deal flow in Scotland and Northern Ireland in the first half of 2022, with close to £25 million having been invested into growing businesses, while exit activity has delivered a 3.5x return off four exits.
BGF is a long-term patient investor, making initial investments between £1 million to £15 million for a minority equity stake. Deals completed to-date in 2022 by BGF’s Scotland and Northern Ireland team come from a range of sectors, including life sciences, technology, manufacturing and healthcare.
Since the turn of the year,
After less than five years, Moonfare has become one of the world’s leading digital private equity investing platforms, its AUM now totalling over €2 billion.
The Berlin-based FinTech is disrupting private market investing by opening access to leading private equity funds for qualified investors and their advisors at low minimums (starting at around $125.000).
Moonfare’s rapid growth underlines the rising trend of “Private Equity goes Retail”. This phenomenon continues to gain momentum as investors are looking to alternative assets for portfolio diversification and to benefit from PE’s record returns. Fund managers too are looking to tap into the private capital
Alternative investment firm Investcorp’s European Real Estate business has completed the acquisition of Luso Invest SA, the owner of Avenue de la Porte de Hal 27, an office occupied by the Flemish government, and Avenue Herrmann-Debroux 2, the Belgium headquarters of Marsh SA. Investcorp acquired the company from Monument Immo Management SA.
Investcorp’s European Real Estate business has to date acquired €1.2 billion of real estate assets across the UK and Europe. Investcorp’s European portfolio consists of 11 office properties across Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and the UK, as well as 35 industrial assets in the UK.
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