Latest News
Fiera Capital Corporation (Fiera Capital) is expanding the offering on its Private Alternative Investments platform with the acquisition of Integrated Asset Management Corp (IAM).
IAM’s private debt investment is being incorporated within Fiera Private Lending and the industrial real estate team joining Fiera Properties. The transaction received the unanimous support of the board of directors of both companies, and IAM shareholders holding 62 per cent of issued and outstanding IAM Shares have entered into voting and support agreements in favour of the Transaction, which is expected to close in the second quarter of 2019.
“This acquisition further strengthens and diversifies Fiera Capital’s
London-based venture capitalist firm, Luminous Ventures, has appointed John Spindler as a Venture Partner.
The highly regarded entrepreneur, investor and venture capitalist has a distinguished career spanning more than 15 years.
As CEO of Capital Enterprise, and Founder/General Partner of AI Seed and London Co-Investment Fund, which is supported by the London Mayor, John has been a key player in establishing a culture of innovation and investment in the UK’s fast-growing tech scene.
He is also a director of Conception X, an accelerator programme for PHDs backed by Barclays. In a private capacity, John’s angel investments include UXCam,
SGG Group, the world’s fourth largest investor services group, has adopted a new name, visual identity and corporate website. SGG Group has rebranded to become IQ-EQ.
IQ-EQ unites SGG, First Names Group, Augentius, Iyer Practice and Viacert under one single brand.
Mark Pesco, Group CEO, says: “Our new name brings together the rare combination of technical expertise with a deep understanding of the needs of our clients. To deliver for our clients depends not just on our ability to provide expert services, but equally on how well we know them and their business. We believe in personal relationships developed over
The innogy Innovation Hub, which identifies, funds, and mentors game-changing technologies and ideas, has closed a seed investment round in FirstPoint Mobile Guard (FirstPoint), global innovators in cellular Cybersecurity-as-a-Service. Financial terms were not disclosed.
FirstPoint’s network-level protection shields all cellular devices against hidden network vulnerabilities that stump security teams: IMSI catchers (fake base stations), malicious SMSs, location trackers, and other tactics that can steal sensitive communications and data.
This military-grade, proven Cybersecurity-as-a-Service detects, alerts, protects and deceives, without requiring user intervention to install or update anything. Organisations can also customise protection by defining and modifying policies per device, which
Beechbrook Capital, a specialist direct lender, has appointed Peter Gottron as Investment Director, DACH, covering Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Gottron will be based in Frankfurt, establishing Beechbrook’s first office in Germany.
Gottron was previously head of corporate banking for Mainzer Volksbank and before that a director and head of acquisition finance, Germany, for Lloyds Bank International/Bank of Scotland in Frankfurt. He will join Beechbrook’s private debt team, originating and executing investments, as well as providing portfolio management support across the DACH region.
Beechbrook’s private debt fund provides loans to private-equity backed companies in the lower mid-market across the UK
SGG Group, the world’s fourth largest investor services group, has adopted a new name, visual identity and corporate website. SGG Group has rebranded to become IQ-EQ.
IQ-EQ unites SGG, First Names Group, Augentius, Iyer Practice and Viacert under one single brand.
Mark Pesco, Group CEO, says: “Our new name brings together the rare combination of technical expertise with a deep understanding of the needs of our clients. To deliver for our clients depends not just on our ability to provide expert services, but equally on how well we know them and their business. We believe in personal relationships developed
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
Special Reports
Featured
Events
12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
