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Ogier’s Jersey listings team is continuing to see strong flows of private equity and intercompany group-related debt listings as The International Stock Exchange (TISE) announces a general increase in listings for the first six months of 2018.
Peter Longstaffe (pictured), counsel in the Banking and Finance team in Jersey, says that the listing team continues to be busy with private equity and intercompany group-related debt listing work – and that the team is also active in other growth areas for the exchange including High Yield Bonds.
Ogier is one of the leading listings agents in relation to TISE, having
Great Rock Capital, an asset-focused commercial finance company specialising in middle market lending, has appointed Jeffrey Peckitt as Managing Director of Originations.
Peckitt will be based in Toronto and will be responsible for sourcing new investment opportunities to expand the firm’s footprint in the Greater Toronto area and establish a presence in the Canadian markets.
“We are excited to have Jeffrey join Great Rock as we expand into the Canadian market,” says Stuart Armstrong, CEO of Great Rock Capital. “Jeffrey’s depth of industry knowledge, experience, and relationships will be a great asset to the firm, as we believe it’s
Eagle Merchant Partners and JLM Financial Partners have closed their investment in the Recreational Group, a leading provider of residential and commercial recreational surfacing products across the country.
The move capitalises on the rapidly-growing artificial turf and sports surfacing industry, with products used across a wide range of markets and customers. Founded in 1998, Recreational Group has grown to more than USD45 million in sales through strategic acquisitions and organic growth. The recreational surfacing industry has become more popular as it is environmentally sustainable, affordable and maintenance free, which has driven both residential and commercial uses. It allows families to
Peer-to-peer business lender Assetz Capital has revealed that over GBP50 million has been invested into its Innovative Finance ISA (IFISA) since its launch at the beginning of the year.
The popularity of the Assetz Capital ISA has been consistently strong, to the extent that ISA investments now account for over 15 per cent of all loans funded through the platform.
Many investors have made the switch to the Assetz Capital ISA from Cash and Stocks and Shares ISAs, with the platform seeing over GBP20 million of completed or in-progress transfers. This is on top of investors putting new money
Floreat, the privately-held investment group, is to acquire a USD500 million portfolio of Boeing and Airbus aircraft as it continues to secure opportunities in the aviation finance sector on behalf of clients.
The group, which completed an award-winning securitisation of a USD450 million portfolio of A330s in 2016, has appointed MUFG to source a portfolio of aircrafts, which are on lease to airlines around the globe.
Floreat, which specialises in investments in public and private equity, real estate and private debt, is a long-time supporter of securitisations backed by aviation leases and sees the asset class as a means
SimCorp, a provider of investment management solutions and services to the global financial services industry, has announced a raft of enhancements and developments of its flagship investment management software solution, SimCorp Dimension.
The 6.4 release features several advances to the system, covering the full investment management value chain, from front to back. One of the primary features of the release is new and advanced accounting analytics for the front office, created to meet the growing complexity across the buy side, particularly in the global insurance sector. An enhanced Collateral Manager, and new functionality to help clients with European General Data
Tim Clipstone has joined the Guernsey office of Ogier as a partner in its top-tier investment fund team.
Clipstone (pictured), has a strong reputation for his work with offshore investment funds, specialising in investment fund structuring, equity fundraising, mergers and acquisitions and group reorganisations.
Ogier’s Guernsey team were recently Guernsey legal counsel to the launch of a GBP202 million music IPO fund, and are ranked in the top tier by IFLR.
This year Ogier has been named Offshore Law Firm of the Year by Chambers Europe and International Law Firm of the Year at the Legal Week
OpenFin, an operating system for the financial industry, has appointed Stephen Wood as Global Head of Enterprise Deployment.
Wood joins from Deutsche Bank, where he served as Head of Market Data, Risk and Compliance, from 2012-2015, and Global Head of Market Data Services, from 2015-2018, with responsibilities including managing the deployment of vendor products. Wood brings his unique insights to OpenFin, where he will be responsible for driving the firm’s enterprise deployment strategy. He will be working closely with the growing number of banks, asset managers and hedge funds now running their financial desktop applications on OpenFin.
In addition,
A new survey of institutional asset managers, consultants and investors confirms compliance with the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS) is on the rise, with 84 per cent of asset managers responding saying their firms are GIPS compliant.
This is up from 72 per cent who claimed compliance in 2014, the last time institutional investment analytics firm eVestment and consulting firm ACA Compliance Group conducted this survey of eVestment users.
This increase is driven by investor and consultant activity, as 75 per cent of investors and consultants responding to the 2018 survey said they exclude managers from searches some or
By John D’Agostino (pictured), Global Leader, Investor Engagement at DMS Governance, & Paras Malde, Director at DMS Governance.
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