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BlackRock has launched the Expected Return Analyzer, an portfolio analysis tool, to help advisers allocate to private markets.
Powered by BlackRock’s Aladdin technology, the Expected Return Analyzer draws on the BlackRock Investment Institute’s proprietary Capital Market Assumptions to show advisers how adding private markets or other asset class exposures to their clients’ portfolios can help meet their return targets.
The new tool is part of BlackRock’s commitment to increasing accessibility to alternative investments and helping advisers better understand the role alternatives can play in wealth portfolios to address their clients’ needs.
A BlackRock study indicates that the traditional 60/40 portfolio
Bernhard Capital Partners Management, a services and infrastructure-focused private equity management firm, is to acquire RailWorks Corp (RailWorks), a North American rail infrastructure solutions provider, from Wind Point Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm.
The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2021, subject to customary closing conditions, including receipt of regulatory approvals.
“RailWorks has enjoyed unprecedented growth over the last decade, and we are excited to see that continue with Bernhard Capital’s ownership and expertise,” says Kevin Riddett, RailWorks’ President and CEO. “For RailWorks’ customers, it is business as usual. Our crews will continue to deliver
Virtu Financial, a provider of trading solutions and liquidity to the global markets, has become a strategic investor in ClearList.
Other investors in ClearList include GTS, a leading electronic market maker across global financial instruments, Tudor Global Trading, founded by legendary investor Paul Tudor Jones, and David “Tiger” Williams, founder of Williams Trading.
Together with GTS, the Virtu investment brings together on behalf of ClearList, two of the largest global electronic equity market makers in the world.
Doug Cifu, CEO of Virtu, says: “We have been watching with interest the overall development of the private markets and in particular the
Profian, a confidential computing platform focused on bespoke open source solutions, has secured USD5 million in seed funding.
The round was co-led by Project A Ventures and Illuminate Financial, and included angel investors: Olivier Pomel, Chief Executive Officer of Datadog; Tyler McMullen, Chief Technology Officer of Fastly; Till Schneidereit, Chairman of Bytecode Alliance; and Sarah Novotny, Board Member of the Linux Foundation.
As corporate cyber and data breaches continue to accelerate worldwide, there is a heightened requirement for organisations to increase their security for workloads in the cloud. For that reason, Profian aims to bring cryptographic proof and verifiable
Kyma Investment Partners SGR (KYMA), an asset management company with a EUR130 million target size for its first fund dedicated to the digital transformation of Italian SMEs and specific focus on Education and Information Technology, has held its first closing at around EUR100 million.
The funds were raised from primary institutional investors, including European Investment Fund (as anchor investor) and Fondo Italiano d’Investimento (as anchor investor), and from various family offices and High Net Worth Individuals.
Concurrently with the first closing of the fund, KYMA entered a binding agreement to acquire the majority of Datlas Srl (Datlas), one of
Heyflow, the industry’s first no-code platform for interactive user experiences, has closed a USD6 million seed financing round led by Project A Ventures.
Heyflow solves the growing challenge companies face when trying to design high-converting user experiences, fast and cost-efficiently. Heyflow provides companies with a platform to build, design and integrate interactive clickflows – without the need to write a single line of code.
Additional investors include existing backers Atlantic Labs and Possible Ventures as well as several angel investors including Philipp Westermeyer (OMR).
A great user experience is paramount for companies to engage, convert and acquire new customers. Demand
The Midlands team of global investment bank GCA Altium has acted as advisor to Nichirei Holding Holland, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nichirei Logistics Group Inc on the acquisition of the cold storage division of Norish plc for a consideration of GBP65.7 million.
The specialist division currently operates from six strategically located sites, with key facilities located in Brierley Hill in the West Midlands and Wrexham in North Wales. It provides more than 47,500 racked, temperature-controlled pallet spaces in the UK.
The company provides supply chain solutions for businesses on a local, regional, and national basis by way of
finnCap Cavendish (Cavendish), part of financial advisory firm finnCap Group, has advised on the sale of Sentenial Group and its open banking brand Nuapay, an end-to-end payments platform specialised in account-to-account transactions, to EML Payments, an Australian-listed payments technology company for EUR108 million.
Through its regulated subsidiary Nuapay, Sentenial operates in the fast-growing European-open banking sector. The Group powers a complete set of payments for credit transfers, direct debits, instant payments and open banking. Over EUR44 billion worth of transactions is processed annually across 37 countries, with some EUR1/4 trillion processed to date.
Under the Sentenial brand, the Group’s original
European law firm Fieldfisher has appointed Thomas Colmer as a partner in its corporate team in London.
Thomas joins Fieldfisher from PwC’s multi-disciplinary practice, where he has worked for more than five years leading the UK Legal Deals and Private Business team.
Thomas trained and worked at Norton Rose before becoming Head of M&A and General Counsel at global FinTech group ION Trading. Prior to joining PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal LLP as a partner, he also practiced at Osborne Clarke.
He has wide-ranging expertise focusing on high-growth corporates, financial institutions, entrepreneurs and founders in multiple sectors, particularly in technology, financial services and
Leading global general partners (GPs) and limited partners (LPs) have launched the ESG Data Convergence Project to advance an initial standardised set of ESG metrics and mechanisms for comparative reporting.
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) and global investment firm Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) led the collaboration which includes GPs and LPs representing more than USD4 trillion in AUM. The group includes LPs: AlpInvest Partners, APG, CalPERS, CPP Investments, Employees’ Retirement System of Rhode Island, PGGM, PSP Investments, The Pictet Group, Wellcome Trust; and GPs: Blackstone, Bridgepoint Group Plc, Carlyle, CVC, EQT AB, Permira, and TowerBrook Capital Partners LP.
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