Managers
Capital Dynamics, an independent global private asset management firm, has committed to help drive actionable change on greenhouse gas emissions by signing the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative and joining the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF).
The Net Zero Asset Managers initiative, a consortium of 236 asset managers, supports the goal of reaching Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner, in line with global efforts to limit global warming to 1.5C. A core part of this commitment is to ensure transparent and standardised measurement and reporting of financed greenhouse gas emissions.
PCAF is a global alliance enabling
Imaginary Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm co-founded by Natalie Massenet and Nick Brown, has announced its third fund of USD500 million across early and late stage vehicles.
In addition, the firm has promoted Kelly Dill and Logan Langberg to Partner.
The new vehicles have a diverse focus including underserved markets and emerging consumer needs. With Fund III, Imaginary is also positioned to take advantage of the consumer shifts emerging through Web3 as new opportunities spanning consumers, brands and communities are created at a rapid pace.
In just four years, Imaginary has grown from a start-up venture fund with
Verdane, a European specialist growth equity investor, has committed to neutralise all its future residual emissions with engineered, permanent carbon removals, essentially extracting CO2 out of the air and either storing it or converting it to naturally occurring materials such as stone.
As the first private equity investor globally to make this commitment, Verdane aims to catalyse demand for crucial net zero technologies that urgently need to be scaled and brought down the cost curve.
To accelerate the progression toward global net zero, Verdane is partnering with three highly respected carbon removal service providers: Climeworks, a Swiss firm operating the
CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor, has been formally renamed British International Investment (BII). Watch here.
The organisation will invest between GBP1.5 and GBP2 billion per year in green infrastructure, technology and other sectors to support countries in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.
Situated in seven locations across the Continent, BII has a portfolio value of over USD4 billion, with over 600 local businesses. Portfolio highlights include: Global Partnership for Ethiopia, FirstBank Nigeria, 14Trees, ETG, AfricInvest, Novastar, Zambeef, Equity Bank, Access Bank plc, Redstone Concentrated Solar Power Project among many more.
Fireside Ventures, an early-stage, consumer focused venture capital investors, is targeting between USD150 million USD200 million for its third fund, according to a report by VCCircle.
The report credits people familiar with the matter for the information with Fireside said to be in talks with LPs about soft commitments. The firm’s predecessor fund, Fund II, secured around USD118 million in capital commitments, surpassing its original target of USD100 million, while Fireside’s debut fund raised USD52 million at final close in March 2018.
General Atlantic, a global growth equity investor, has opened a new office in Tel Aviv.
The new location expands the firm’s geographic footprint into the Middle East and enables General Atlantic to strengthen its presence in the highly entrepreneurial Israeli ecosystem.
General Atlantic sees significant opportunity in Israel and has invested over USD750 million in eight high-growth tech companies in the country since 2019, with six of those eight investments taking place in roughly the past year. With an on-the-ground presence in Tel Aviv, the firm plans to deepen its local network and further engage in the region’s entrepreneurial
WhiteStar Asset Management (WhiteStar), the CLO, structured products, and broadly syndicated credit arm of Clearlake Capital Group, has acquired the five reinvesting Collateralised Loan Obligations (CLOs) managed by Carlson CLO Advisers, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Carlson Capital.
Totaling more than USD2 billion and branded under the Cathedral Lake shelf, WhiteStar will assume collateral management duties of the Cathedral Lake CLOs effective 31 March, 2022. This marks the second acquisition of CLO contracts by WhiteStar in less than four months.
As a result of this acquisition, WhiteStar manages approximately USD12 billion in CLO assets under management through 27 CLO vehicles, hedge
Alternative investment platform Forester Capital has launched a strategic partnership with Jonathan Goldberg of Hallstatt Advisors.
Goldberg will employ a fundamental, bottom-up approach to investing in industrial and industrial-related companies in transformation.
Goldberg has deep industry experience as both a senior investor and as a portfolio manager and has distinguished himself with a strong track record investing across industrial, cyclical, and adjacent industries.
Prior to launching Hallstatt, Goldberg was a partner at Highline Capital Management, where he served as the Industrials Sector Head and Co-PM of Highline Select.
Investors should look to alternative investments including private equity, private debt, hedge funds, and gold as a way to weather the current market uncertainty brought about by rising oil prices and inflation, and Russia’s invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, according to DBS Bank CIO, You Way Fook.
A report by Fund Selector Asia quotes Fook as telling a media briefing that he recommends a 33 per cent allocation each to gold and private equity, with 17 per cent invested in both private debt and hedge funds.
Private markets investment firm Hamilton Lane has partnered with digital securities exchange ADDX to tokenise a class of shares issued by Hamilton Lane Global Private Assets Fund (GPA), to enable access to the private markets for a broader set of investors in Asia.
The partnership marks the first time Hamilton Lane has tokenised a fund, making it one of the earliest major private markets firms to do so.
Hamilton Lane’s GPA Fund will be accessible to ADDX investors at a minimum ticket size of USD10,000, compared to the minimum of USD125,000 or more for investors who subscribe via traditional, non-tokenised
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