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Some 90 per cent of LPs surveyed by Rede Partners for the 2H2018 Rede Liquidity Index (RLI) expect to increase or maintain their existing allocations to primary funds over the next year, leading to an overall RLI score of 63, down slightly from 65 in H1 2018.
Expectations for the private equity market remain strong, according to the RLI, an industry benchmark assessing investor sentiment towards the asset class. Despite this, there has been a modest cooling in investor expectations for growth in private equity commitments over the last six months.
The findings are based on the views of
Piper, a specialist investor in consumer branded businesses, has led a GBP15 million investment into Bloom & Wild, the online flower gifting brand that is disrupting Europe’s GBP14 billion fresh cut flower market.
Founded in 2013 by Aron Gelbard and Ben Stanway, Bloom & Wild has transformed the online flower gifting market, pioneering the concept of ‘letterbox flowers’. Its offering allows customers the ability to gift beautiful, high quality, long-lasting, fresh flowers in a convenient slim box that fits through the receiver’s letterbox. More than 50 million flowers have been shipped to date across the UK, France and Germany. Piper’s
Inverleith, a specialist consumer brands investor, has taken a majority stake in Planet Organic, the London health and wellbeing supermarket, food-to-go chain and online retailer.
Inverleith has injected equity into the Company to expand the existing store footprint in London, to more than double the current portfolio of stores over the next 5 years.
Ben Thomson, Chairman of Inverleith, says: “This is an interesting time of change for the High Street with shoppers wanting more community-based shopping. Consumers are looking for an experience when they shop, and for real knowledge about the products offered. They care deeply about the
Forbion, a European life science venture capital firm, has held the final close of its new flagship fund, Forbion IV. The oversubscribed fund closed at EUR360 million in capital commitments, significantly above its original target of EUR250 million.
Forbion IV, like its predecessor fund, Forbion III, will primarily focus on opportunities in the EU including the UK, with the remainder of the fund targeting opportunities mainly in North America.
Forbion’s fourth fund will focus on biopharma investments, building on its track record of creating high-return, high-impact businesses, built around exciting new science, proven management teams or assets sourced from
James Williams, managing editor at Hedgeweek, assesses how data analytics techniques can be used to personalise client experiences for investment managers.
The amount of data is growing exponentially. According to IDC, there were 16.3 zettabytes of information generated in 2017 alone; one zettabyte is 1 billion terabytes. However you cut it, that’s a huge number. One that is too large to comprehend. In simplistic terms, according to one industry professional “if every piece of data were a penny, it would cover the earth’s surface five times over”. Indeed, with Amazon and Apple both hitting the trillion dollar market cap mark,
AnaCap Financial Partners (AnaCap), a specialist European financial services private equity firm, has acquired EUR225m of Italian NPLs in two separate portfolios.
A EUR141 million NPL secured portfolio was acquired from Volksbank, primarily comprised of SME loans. The majority of the portfolio is backed by property in Northern Italy. In addition, AnaCap has acquired from Banca di Pisa e Fornacette Credito Cooperativo an EUR84 million NPL portfolio also comprised of predominantly secured SME loans, largely collateralized by real estate in Tuscany.
These acquisitions follow on from more than EUR8 billion of performing and non-performing loans that funds advised by
BGF has exited its minority investment in NewVoiceMedia, the market-leading cloud customer contact platform, to NYSE-listed communications provider Vonage Holdings Corp for USD350 million.
BGF invested in the London-headquartered business in 2015, joining a round of funding to accelerate NewVoiceMedia’s international growth plans, which was principally focussed on the North American market.
NewVoiceMedia has since grown rapidly, with new offices in Dallas and Munich, and international bookings growth of 55 per cent in 2017, and now serving more than 700 customers across six continents. It was positioned in the Leaders’ quadrant of Gartner Inc’s Magic Quadrant for Contact Centre
Piper, a UK specialist investor in consumer brands, has exited its investment in Orlebar Brown, the luxury swim and resort-wear brand, to Chanel SA.
The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2007 by Adam Brown and former business partner Julia Simpson-Orlebar, Orlebar Brown pioneered the tailored approach to men’s beach and swim shorts and has since evolved into a full collection of resort wear that revolves around the theme of travel, holiday and sun.
Piper invested £8m into the business in August 2013 enabling Orlebar Brown to increase sales to GBP22m and develop into
You may have read in our recent blog posts that October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Of course, at Eze Castle Integration, we love to talk about IT security for alternative investment and professional services firms.
To participate in National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Eze Castle Integration is launching a Cybersecurity Educational Series to guide the alternative investment industry through the complex and evolving cybersecurity environment. This educational series will include the launch of an online Cybersecurity Information Center, three new whitepapers and a series of educational webinars.
The Information Center features videos, guidebooks and articles on the latest
By Olivia Munro (pictured), Eze Castle Integration – From a personal perspective, there are a variety of reasons that individuals update applications on their personal devices (think mobile phone or iPad). For example, with Social Media applications drivers to update include new features, faster load times, and bug fixes. But from a business perspective, it is imperative to keep applications up to date on your devices.
Here’s our take on benefits of keeping applications up to date, why it’s crucial from a security perspective, and some of the potential risks of legacy applications.
BENEFITS:
Improved Performance
Similar to your personal devices, updating applications
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