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Pollen Street Capital (Pollen Street) has appointed Hugh Cutler as Head of Business Development.
Cutler brings a wealth of expertise to Pollen Street with 25 years of experience in investment management, capital raising and delivering client solutions across a broad range of public and private market strategies.
Prior to joining the team, Cutler led global distribution for Affiliated Managers Group, where he helped to grow the platform into new product lines, client types and geographies. Hugh previously held senior distribution and solutions roles at Och-Ziff, LGIM and Barclays Global Investors.
Lindsey McMurray, Managing Director at Pollen Street, says:
Alternative investment manager Oxford Capital has appointed Alexander (Sandy) Flockhart as Non-Exec Director on the Board of Oxford Capital Partners Holdings Limited.
In addition, Flockhart sits as an independent member of the investment committee of the firm. He brings to the role broad experience in investment management, financial services, regulatory affairs and governance. His appointment follows the retirement of Sir Martin Smith, who stepped down as a director earlier in 2020 and remains a senior adviser to the firm.
Flockhart has had a long career in financial services spanning private equity and international banking. He served in a number
Livingbridge Private Equity-backed Three Rock Group has appointed Matthew Donaldson as Chairman.
Donaldson’s appointment marks an acceleration of Three Rocks strategic ambition to widen their reach within existing personal lines sector and expand their portfolio of complimentary financial services products. Three Rock Group is comprised of Chill Insurance, Irelands largest independent personal lines distribution platform, Chill Money and Ivernia, a captive MGA.
Donaldson has extensive experience in the Financial Services and Insurance sector, most recently as Group CEO of BGL Group, the leading digital distributor of Insurance and Household Financial Services in the UK and France. In his early
Alternative asset management firm Hayfin has appointed Daniel Bird as a Portfolio Manager for Private Credit.
Bird was previously a Managing Director at Bank of America where he successfully built and grew a global credit and special situations group in EMEA.
At Hayfin, Bird will be based in London and will focus on sourcing and analysing investment opportunities and providing portfolio management across the private credit strategies.
He joins the other Portfolio Managers for Hayfin’s private credit business, who include Mark Bickerstaffe, Mikhael Botbol, Fabrice Damien, Cecile Ferrie-Davies, Olaf Hartmann, Kamran Hussain, Carlos Pla and Stefano Questa.
CG Asset Management (CGAM) has added a new analyst – Hassan Raza – to its growing team.
Hassan was previously a senior investment banking analyst at HSBC working as part of the Financial Sponsors Group on a range of private equity led and leveraged buy-out transactions.
Prior to HSBC, he worked in PwC’s corporate finance team on major transport and infrastructure projects. He is also a CFA charterholder.
Hassan will join CGAM to expand its research capabilities and will work across its suite of five funds which are split into two groups, Absolute Return funds, including the Capital Gearing
CDC Group (CDC), the UK’s publicly owned impact investor, has appointed two high-profile venture capitalists industry as investment committee members, as it prepares to expand its interests in the sector.
Anne Glover, CEO of Amadeus Capital Partners and Non-Executive Director of the Court of the Bank of England, will join CDC as a member of its Investment Committee. She is joined on the Committee by Nikunj Jinsi, former Global Head of Venture Capital at IFC.
Both appointees will sit on a newly formed Venture Capital Investment Committee at CDC and advise on venture capital funds and co-investment proposals.
CAPZA, an independent management company and leading player in private investments in European SMEs with EUR4.82 billion of assets under management, has appointed Guillaume Basquin and Frédéric Chiche as Partners and Co-Heads of CAPZA Expansion, a fund dedicated to investments in French mid-cap companies.
The fund has already begun investing in order to support the French economy and back the rebound of mid-cap companies, with its two initial investments in Béton Solutions Mobiles and Sogetrel.
CAPZA Expansion was created following the envelope entrusted to CAPZA in May 2020 by AXA France to help rebuild French local economic activity and foster
Millbrook Healthcare (Millbrook), a portfolio company of Cairngorm Capital Partners (Cairngorm Capital), has acquired Ross Care Limited (Ross Care).
The acquisition creates a national group with market leadership within the outsourced wheelchair and community equipment services sector.
Established in 1949, Ross Care is a major provider of wheelchair services and mobility equipment on behalf of NHS and local authorities. In addition to its community equipment service, Ross Care is the largest provider of wheelchair repair contracts in the UK. Headquartered in Wallasey, Ross Care has 18 service centres including four wheelchair clinical assessment centres across the north and north west
By Phil Spratt, co-founder of digital intelligence service Deltabase – With the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic suppressing some sectors, the attention of the private equity industry is now even more acutely focused on assets in the resilient SaaS technology sector and on firms that have successfully managed to ‘pivot’ towards digitalising their propositions and underlying business model.
As the hedge fund industry continues to grow and mature, managers are considering options beyond the traditional hedge fund structure. To this end, the managers and their service providers must be flexible and nimble to create custom solutions for the benefit of all parties involved.
“We’re seeing many different fund vehicles come to market and as a service provider, you need to be able to adjust your service offering and your approach to match those changes,” comments Leanne Golding (pictured), Director of HTC Fiduciary Services (Harbou”) in the Cayman Islands.
Expanding into new areas can be challenging. One of the areas where
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