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The unlisted infrastructure market is dominated by core and core-plus vehicles, in line with its perception as a lower-risk, lower-return asset class. These funds account for the largest proportions of annual fundraising, and collectively hold over a quarter of a trillion dollars in assets under management.
However, Preqin says there are signs that higher-risk, higher-reward approaches such as value added funds are accounting for an increasing portion of the market. Over the past decade, the AUM of value added funds has grown at a compound annual rate of 26 per cent. As a result, while core – plus funds have
Over EUR1 million has now been invested in P2P platform DoFinance since its launch seven months ago.
“We’ve achieved one of our first major milestones, and DoFinance platform has been recognised by its investors. We’ve moved to this goal strategically and it is proven that with an easy and user-friendly solution it is possible to become an important player in the p2p lending market. DoFinance will continue to develop by actively following all the newest fintech trends, so we can continue to serve our investors and provide an opportunity for everyone to invest,” says Co-founder of DoFinance, Viesturs Kuļikovskis
Pan-European seed investor Seedcamp has held the first close of its fourth fund to invest in the next generation of European talent with GBP41 million in commitments.
The fund is already over 2x larger than Seedcamp’s last (EUR20m raised in 2014) and is backed by 60 leading corporates, venture capitalists and fund of funds from across the world including: Investec, Unilever Ventures, Thomas Cook Money, MassMutual Ventures, ADV, Draper Esprit, Index Ventures, Atomico, Idinvest Partners, Underscore Ventures, Speedinvest and British Business Investments, the commercial arm of the UK-government backed British Business Bank.
The launch of Seedcamp Fund IV also
The London team at Ropes & Gray has made some predictions for the private equity market in 2018, against the backdrop of market uncertainty caused by a range of factors including Brexit.
Phil Sanderson (pictured), private equity partner at Ropes & Gray, says: “M&A in the UK will remain resilient – doing deals will be a distraction from the protracted Brexit goggle-box.
“Funds are still being raised into an already saturated market. The market needs more good opportunities and sellers will still be in charge as a result. What is more, sellers will be able to sell a more credible
Sacha Bright, CEO of www.businessagent.com on the impact that today’s budget news will have on VCT & EIS investors and the alternative investment space…
Hammond’s budget today will be welcomed by the alternative investment community. More money to the British Business Bank is likely to feed through to the peer-to-peer (P2P) community and changes to EIS and VCT investments are about trying to encourage more direct investing in genuinely entrepreneurial companies which is what crowdfunding is all about.
It seems clear that the Government is targeting large sums of money invested in tax-vehicles, rather than growth company investment vehicles,
Toppan Vintage, an international financial printing, communications and technology company, has formed a global partnership with virtual data room (VDR) provider Intralinks.
The companies will jointly market and develop a suite of best-in-class services for deals, including the leading virtual data room, the industry’s only auto-pagination typesetting system and traditional financial printing services. Combining the best VDR and financial printing and communications solutions will enable dealmakers and issuers to be more productive than ever.
“We’re incredibly excited with the Intralinks’ alliance,” says Yeo Chee Tong, President & CEO of Toppan Leefung, Toppan Vintage’s parent company. “As one of the
American Industrial Partners (AIP) is to acquires Rand Logistics, a provider of bulk freight shipping services throughout the Great Lakes Region.
AIP is a New York-based private equity firm with over USD4.0 billion of assets under management that focuses on buying, improving and growing industrial businesses in the US and Canada.
Under the terms of the agreement entered into between Lightship Capital, an affiliate of AIP, and the Company, AIP has agreed to convert all of the Company’s second lien debt into 100 per cent of the new common equity of the reorganised Company (subject to dilution by shares
Leeds Equity Partners, a New York-based private equity firm focused exclusively on investing in the Knowledge Industries, has completed its investment in Fusion Education Group (Fusion).
Fusion operates 43 schools in eight states and Washington, DC through a personalised education model and today educates more than 4,000 students in grades six through 12. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
The first Fusion Academy opened in 1989 in Solana Beach, California with a groundbreaking personalised educational model. Classes at Fusion are delivered by one teacher to one student through mastery-based learning, which enables each session to be attuned
Interswitch, an Africa-focused integrated digital payments and commerce company, has appointed Kenneth Olisa OBE, FRSA, FBCS, as its new Chairman, succeeding Adedotun Sulaiman, MFR.
The appointment follows the recent minority investment by TA Associates in Interswitch in March of this year. Helios Investment Partners, which invested in the company in 2011, is majority shareholder of the company.
Olisa is a British businessman with a career in technology that commenced at IBM and spans well over 40 years. He founded and led the technology merchant bank, Interregnum and is also the founder and Chairman of Restoration Partners, an independent boutique
IK Investment Partners’ IK Small Cap I Fund together with Management is to acquire Studienkreis (Studienkreis), a provider of tutoring services for primary and secondary school students in Germany, from Aurelius.
Since its inception in 1974, Studienkreis has developed into one of the leading providers of tutoring services on the German market. The Company operates a dense network of over 1,000 learning centres, offering small group tutoring to circa 60,000 primary and secondary school students across Germany, covering all common subjects as well as special preparatory courses for pre graduation exams. The Company has further developed a true online offering, comprising
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