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AIMA and CAIA are proposing a new system to help reduce the complexity of current methods of risk ratings at investment dealer firms.
The Associations have published guidelines on these methods in response to new regulations and consistent feedback from AIMA member firms that retail risk ratings unfairly rate alternative products automatically as high risk.
The final amendments to regulation NI 81-102 will make alternative investment funds available to retail investors. This has the potential to expand the market for alternative investment products that were previously only available to accredited investors. Consequently, some early predictions anticipate the Canadian alternative
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm, has acquired EMS Safety Services (EMS). Based in San Clemente, California, EMS is a fast-growing provider of first aid and CPR training solutions and is an add-on to Riverside’s Health and Safety Institute (HSI) portfolio company, a leading provider of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) software, training and compliance services.
Both EMS and HSI’s ASHI/MEDIC First Aid brands are well-known for a wide range of high-quality, competitively priced emergency care (EC) training content that is flexible and easy-to-use. The acquisition significantly increases HSI’s presence in the EC market, further reinforcing HSI as
Principle Capital has appointed Raymond Lau as a Vice President of the firm, effective 2 January 2019.
Lau has over 17 years of financial industry experience and was the Managing Director of Lau Equity, a family investment office that invests across a broad range of sectors and geographic areas in private equity, public equity, fixed income and real estate. Prior to Lau Equity, he worked at GE Asset Management for nine years. At GE, he managed a USD2 billion private equity portfolio on behalf of the GE Pension Trust, where he developed deep transaction and portfolio management experience in both direct deals and private
Lovell Minnick Partners, a private equity firm specialising in financial and related business services companies, has acquired ATTOM Data Solutions (ATTOM), a provider of national real estate data and analytics.
Lovell Minnick acquired ATTOM from Renovo Capital and Rosewood Private Investments. Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Irvine, California, ATTOM manages a comprehensive data platform that draws upon a wide range of sources to provide property tax, deed, mortgage, foreclosure, environmental risk, natural hazard and neighbourhood data for more than 155 million US residential and commercial properties covering 99 per cent of the
Mid-market private equity investor LDC has completed the sale of procurement specialist Inprova Group Limited (Inprova) in two separate deals.
In December 2018, AIM-listed Inspired Energy plc acquired Inprova’s energy division, with the existing management team acquiring the non-energy procurement business upon completion.
Headquartered in Warrington, Inprova delivers procurement services for private and public sector organisations across the UK. The business offers outsourcing, technology and consultancy services, providing its clients with a complete procurement solutions package.
LDC first backed the business in March 2014 to help fuel its ambitious growth strategy. Over the past four years the team has worked closely with CEO Paul Kennedy and
An affiliate of private equity investment firm HIG Capital (HIG) has acquired Lipari Foods from Sterling Investment Partners (Sterling), and certain other selling shareholders.
HIG is partnering with the Lipari family and the current management team to grow the company’s distribution and manufacturing platform. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1963 and headquartered in Warren, Michigan, Lipari is a leading distributor of perimeter-of-the-store, specialty, and branded food products, proudly serving over 6,300 customers throughout the Midwest and beyond. The Company’s products span the deli, bakery, dairy, specialty retail, seafood, packaging, confections, ethnic, and organic categories,
IZI Medical Products (IZI), an interventional radiology medical device company and portfolio company of Shore Capital Partners (Shore), has acquired select soft tissue biopsy and breast localisation needle assets from Cook Medical (Cook).
The acquired portfolio of products is commercially marketed under the highly regarded Quick-Core Biopsy Needle, MReye Breast Localization Coil, and the Kopans and X-Reidy Lesion Localization Needles.
“This represents IZI’s third add-on acquisition in the last 18 months and significantly adds to our world-class portfolio of minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic products for the interventional radiology market,” says Greg Groenke, Chief Executive Officer, IZI Medical.
Thanks to continued product innovation, there are now numerous structures for investors to consider when investing in private equity but determining the best structure should be a secondary consideration.
Speaking on a recent webinar hosted by Private Equity Wire – Cracking the next generation of liquid alternatives – Private Equity – were three managers which represent a variety of ways for investors to gain exposure to the private equity markets.
Eric Bundonis, Portfolio Manager of a registered interval fund at Artivest, said that in principal investors should be structure-agnostic. Of greater importance, he said, was for them to focus on their time horizon,
Allison Winchester has joined RedRidge Diligence Services as an Associate Director. Located in Chicago, she will oversee the scoping, budgeting and scheduling of the lender diligence field exams both domestically and abroad.
Winchester will also help maintain RedRidge’s strong reputation for high-quality deliverables by assisting in the review process as well as coordinating internally the lender diligence portfolio.
Prior to joining RedRidge, over an 11-year period Winchester served in various roles within the credit department at MB Financial Bank, receiving formal credit training through MB’s Leadership Development Program. During the financial crisis in the late 2000s, Winchester honed her credit
Neuberger Berman, a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager, has appointed Jennifer Signori to the Principles for Responsible Investment’s (PRI) Private Equity Advisory Committee.
The PRI is the world’s leading proponent of responsible and sustainable investments.
The PRI aims to support the adoption of ESG integration in investment strategies across the globe by providing research-driven and action-oriented tools, data, and events to its global signatories. In her capacity on the Private Equity Advisory Committee, Ms. Signori will strive to deliver upon the PRI’s goals to investment managers involved in the private markets by leveraging her extensive experience in both ESG
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