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Third party funds are the first port of call for advisers when seeking exposure to alternative assets on behalf of their clients, according to new research by Seneca Investment Managers, a boutique Multi-Asset Value investment specialist.
When asked how they plan on getting exposure to alternative assets on behalf of clients, the most popular route for advisers (56 per cent) is through third-party multi-asset funds. Indirect investment follows (eg indexes, listed funds like private equity, REITs and property trusts), with nearly half (49 per cent) of advisers open to this route to market. Just 1 per cent of advisers didn’t
Fintech company Capitolis has completed a USD40 million Series B funding round led by Spark Capital and SVB Capital. Existing investors, Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital and S Capital also participated in the round, bringing the total capital raised to date to USD70 million.
The investment will support Capitolis’ next phase of rapid growth, including the expansion of its technology platform, functionality and product offering.
Capitolis has a vision of efficient and safe global markets, achieved by connecting participants through a technology platform to provide maximum capital efficiency and optimisation. By utilising proprietary technology, Capitolis has developed a platform through
Alternative investment company Gulf Capital has promoted two senior executives, Mohammad Madani and Hazem Abu Khalaf, to the position of Managing Directors in its Private Equity division.
The two leadership appointments come in recognition of Madani and Abu Khalaf’s contribution to the success of the Firm’s Private Equity business, having played a significant role in securing and closing substantial investments and creating growth opportunities for the Firm and its portfolio companies.
Muhannad Qubbaj and Abdullah Shahin are stepping down from their current positions in order to pursue other interests.
Hareb Al Darmaki, Chairman of Gulf Capital, says: “We are pleased
European peer-to-peer lending marketplace TWINO Group has reached a funding milestone of EUR1 billion loans issued since its inception in 2009, with half of the loans issued in the past three years.
TWINO, which offers investors the chance to earn premium returns from unsecured consumer loans, now has almost 20,000 active investors from over 30 European countries. Twelve per cent of TWINO’s investments are UK-based, making its UK investor base the second largest only after Germany (33 per cent). UK investors have already earned more than EUR1 million in interest and earn on average a market-leading return of more than 10 per
Clocktower Technology Ventures (CTV), the venture capital investment arm of Clocktower Group, a client-focused alternative investment firm employing opportunistic strategies across public and private markets, has held the final close of the firm’s second financial services innovation fund, Clocktower Technologies II (CTV2).
Focused exclusively on investments in early stage fintech companies, the fund closed with approximately USD70 million in capital commitments. CTV2’s investors include chief investment officers at global hedge funds and institutional investors including a university endowment, a Canadian pension, a sovereign wealth fund, and an Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO). Other strategic investors include a global bank, several
Baring Private Equity Asia’s affiliated private equity funds (BPEA) have agreed to acquire Lumenis, a leading provider of specialty energy-based medical devices across the fields of aesthetics, urology, ophthalmology, ENT and gynecology from XIO.
The transaction values Lumenis at an enterprise value of over USD1 billion.
Lumenis is a global leader in the field of minimally-invasive clinical solutions for the Aesthetic, Surgical, and Ophthalmology specialties. For over 50 years, Lumenis’ ground-breaking products have redefined medical treatments and have set numerous gold-standards. The company has a presence in over 100 countries and close to 1,500 employees worldwide. The Asia Pacific region
Monroe Capital has expanded its opportunistic private credit team with the addition of four experienced professionals – Jason Starr, Darrick Ginkel, Joseph Valickus in the New York office; and Chris Spanel in the Chicago office.
“The growth in our Opportunistic Private Credit team is indicative of the increased demand for financing we are seeing in this area, especially as we enter the later stages of the current economic cycle,” says Aaron Peck, Managing Director and Co-Head of the Opportunistic Private Credit group at Monroe. “As the risk/return parameters for Opportunistic Private Credit become more and more attractive, we believe it
Global alternative asset management firm HIG Capital (HIG) has closed the HIG Middle Market LBO Fund III with aggregate capital commitments of USD3.1 billion, well exceeding its target.
The Fund will continue the strategy of HIG Middle Market’s two predecessor funds, by making private equity investments in middle market companies, primarily in North America.
Sami Mnaymneh and Tony Tamer, Founders and Co-CEOs of HIG, say: “We are pleased with the level of support received from our investors, reflecting the strong performance of the HIG Middle Market team and its differentiated investment approach.”
Rick Rosen, Head of HIG Middle Market, says:
Vista Equity Partners (Vista), an investment firm focused on enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses, has acquired Accelya, a provider of financial, commercial and analytics solutions to the airline and travel industry.
Vista’s investment in Accelya is the first made by the firm’s permanent capital investment fund Vista Equity Partners Perennial (“Perennial”), which is focused on growing industry-leading vertical software companies through long-term investments in product expansion and feature enhancement.
Accelya has been at the forefront of travel and transport for more than 40 years and provides solutions spanning the airline lifecycle encompassing financial, commercial and cargo and logistics processes
The sale is limited to the SUMA Mobile business unit in Spain, excluding the operations of SUMA in other countries.
SUMA Móvil Spain began offering its services in 2012 as a mobile services platform on the MVNA technology of JSC Ingenium -a subsidiary of Grupo Ingenium-, using the radio network of Orange in Spain. Since then, it has deployed more than 30 mobile telephone brands, making it the number one platform in Spain and a benchmark in the virtual operators sector at an international level. In 2019, it incorporated to its commercial offer its new optical fibre service -FTTH- becoming
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