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Global private investments firm Flexstone Partners, an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, and Hostplus, an Australian superannuation fund, are to launch a US private equity emerging managers programme dedicated to Hostplus and designed to provide risk-adjusted investment solutions to qualifying Hostplus members.
The emerging managers programme will see Flexstone Partners invest over the next three years in the first, second or third funds of US mid-market private equity managers on behalf of the industry superannuation fund.
“We believe successful US emerging managers program members tend to deliver higher fund returns, on average, compared to the returns of their former funds,”
UK-based equity management platform, Capdesk, has raised GBP1.5 million from London-based VC fund Fuel Ventures and angels to digitise and provide liquidity to the billions of pounds’ worth of employee shares in unlisted European companies.
Capdesk was founded by Christian Gabriel and Casper Arboll as a response to a new trend of fast-growing companies staying private, and increasingly using employee shares to compensate staff. Since its launch in 2015, the company has attracted thousands of users in the UK and abroad, including Nutmeg, Secret Escapes and Tab Media.
Christian Gabriel, CEO of Capdesk, says: “Private companies are not equipped to
Audax Private Equity (Audax), in partnership with management, has completed the sale of CoolSys to the Private Equity Group of Ares Management Corporation. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Brea, CA, CoolSys is a leading refrigeration and HVAC services company and provides a full spectrum of services and solutions to customers in the retail, food service, commercial and industrial market segments. CoolSys and its operating businesses cover every stage of mission-critical systems through engineering and design, installation, service and maintenance, and energy optimisation. Since its founding in 2001, CoolSys has grown to employ more than 2,000
MUFG Investor Services, the global asset servicing arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, has Implemented Anaplan for the use of carried interest modelling for its alternative investment clients with improved real-time planning and decision-making processes.
With the waterfall allocation methodology, MUFG Investor Services helps its clients move away from traditional, excel-based models to more modern processes that provide increased controls, accuracy and efficiency around inputting data, detailed calculation support for carried interest calculations, and the ability to create carried interest forecasting scenarios. The new tool enables MUFG to scale and centralise the process significantly, in addition to reducing the inconsistency
Technology giants in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH) are transforming their businesses by buying, funding or partnering with connected and intelligent manufacturing technologies and data management companies to ensure they are well-positioned for the Fourth Industrial Revolution – Industry 4.0.
That’s according to technology and mergers and acquisitions advisor Hampleton Partners’ Industry 4.0 M&A Market Report, which records more than 600 deals in 2018, up from 513 in 2017. The analysis reveals that the highest level of interest lies in AI technologies with context information, digital threads (linking data through the lifecycle of a product and its communication with other
Under the legal leadership of ARQIS, the German Standards Setting Institute (GESSI) has published the “Term Sheet”, another standard document for startups and investors, especially business angels.
The GESSI is a joint project of the Business Angels Network Germany e.V. (BAND) and the Federal Association of German Startups e.V. (Startup Association). The “term sheet” is a detailed letter of intent, in which the parties define the key points of a transaction.
“Business angels are an important pillar not only in the US and Europe, but now also in Germany, in order to set up business start-ups and finance the
Bob Baur, Chief Global Economist, Principal Global Investors, comments on the latest FOMC statement…
The FOMC statement confirms our expectation that there would be no rate hikes in 2019.
A key takeaway from the FOMC statement is that the Fed doesn’t want to raise rates above neutral. The potential for no further rate hikes in 2019 suggests the Fed doesn’t have to slow the current growth rate of the economy.
With a big change in direction in January’s meeting and a roaring market, I’m surprised at how dovish a position the Fed took. The jobs market is hot with
Law firm Morrison & Foerster (MoFo) has appointed Kristen Mathews as a partner in the firm’s New York office.
Mathews joins the firm’s market-leading Global Privacy + Data Security Group, which is comprised of more than 60 lawyers across the United States, Europe, and Asia. She has focused her global practice on data privacy and cybersecurity for more than 20 years and is consistently recognised as a leading lawyer in the space. Ms. Mathews comes to Morrison & Foerster from Proskauer Rose, where she served as head of its Privacy + Cybersecurity Group.
Among other things, Ms. Mathews’ extensive data privacy
Singapore-based private equity investor Tembusu Partners is to launch several investment funds totalling at least RMB1.0 billion (SGD205.6 million) after securing the first Qualified Foreign Limited Partner (QFLP) status awarded to a foreign fund management firm in China’s Guizhou Province.
The pan-Asian investment firm also announced the appointment of Lim Ming Yan, former CEO of property giant Capitaland, as Chairman of its China Advisory Board as Tembusu seeks to increase in investments in China, coinciding with the central government’s efforts to liberalise the economy and promote innovation.
Tembusu’s 80-20 joint-venture with a Guizhou state-owned entity is the first in the
Edison Partners, a growth equity investment firm, has led USD26 million funding round in Las Vegas-based ecommerce security and website performance company NS8. The company will use the funds to accelerate product innovation and go-to-market expansion.
Ecommerce fraud is growing at nearly twice the rate as online sales, according to Experian, and experts estimate that fraud costs merchants more than 7.5 percent of their annual revenue. BI Intelligence also reports that US companies experience a loss of nearly USD9 billion annually due to false positive losses, in which retailers decline to make a sale because they mistakenly flag the order
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