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Craig Goos has joined GPB Capital as managing partner and chief operating officer.
Goos, who has more than 20 years of experience in wealth management and financial services, will work closely with the GPB executive team to develop and implement plans for enhancing operations and meeting the organisation’s objectives for rapid growth.
“We recently surpassed USD1 billion in assets under management, and Craig’s extensive experience in this industry will prove to be a valuable asset to us as we continue to foster greater collaboration at every level of our organization to scale to achieve our next level of
European private equity firm Silverfleet Capital has made four new hires to its investment team who will be based across the firm’s offices in London, Munich and Paris.
Johan Boork has joined Silverfleet in London as an associate and will also work closely with Karl Eidem (co-head of the Nordic region) based in Stockholm.
Jan Kux and Guntram Kieferle both join Silverfleet’s Munich office as an associate and analyst, respectively and Constance d’Avout joins the firm as an associate in Paris.
Boork, a Swedish national, previously worked within the Nordics coverage team of UBS Investment Bank in
HSBC Commercial Banking has appointed Sheldon Wong as the head of its expanding middle market financial sponsors (MMFS) team in Asia-Pacific, aiming to capitalise on the region’s growing level of mergers and acquisitions.
As head of MMFS Asia-Pacific, Wong will build on the success of HSBC’s MMFS South-East Asia unit, which he has led from Singapore since the six-strong team’s formation in January 2016.
In his new role he will manage and hire specialist bankers in leveraged and acquisition finance to support mid-size financial sponsors that raise local, regional or global private equity funds ranging from USD250 million
Redpoint Capital Group, an alternative investment company focused on providing financing solutions to companies in the specialty finance and fintech sectors, has appointed Alex Dunev as a managing partner.
Dunev will be responsible for driving Redpoint’s strategic priorities, including sourcing new investment opportunities and raising capital to deploy into Redpoint’s investment strategies.
He will also manage Redpoint’s office in Westport, Connecticut.
“We are excited to announce the addition of Alex to the Redpoint team and believe he will be able to contribute immediately to our strategy and continued evolution of the Redpoint brand in the institutional marketplace,”
The demand for infrastructure funds remains evidently strong. Last year, these vehicles raised USD62.9 billion in aggregate based on figures provided by Preqin*. In Q1 2017, that number had already reached USD29.5 billion; nearly twice the amount raised in Q1 2016 (USD16 billion).
“We’ve seen increasing interest in infrastructure deals, both listed and unlisted,” states Michael McCabe (pictured), Head of US Sales, MUFG Investor Services, the global asset servicing arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. “The number of deals in Q1 2017 for the US totalled USD50 billion and was fairly concentrated in the energy sector; natural resources, utilities, power
Infrastructure has become a key area of focus for institutional investors as they look to diversify their fixed income portfolios to access longer term, resilient credit opportunities for income-like returns. Within this asset class, infrastructure debt is on the rise as investment managers look to construct new debt vehicles: either to provide direct lending to infrastructure operators, to access well-established municipal bond markets, or to structure their own private lending programmes by issuing tranches of unlisted bonds.
Last September, Schroders established a new infrastructure finance capability designed specifically to help institutional investors access the asset class.
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Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, an investment manager specialising in lower carbon and renewable energy infrastructure assets, has acquired Scout Clean Energy, a Colorado-based developer and operator of US wind power projects.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Scout is developing a 1,600-megawatt (MW) pipeline of US wind power projects that in aggregate represents more than USD1.7 billion in total capital investment and would generate enough emissions free power to serve the needs of nearly a half-million American households.
Led by wind industry veteran Michael Rucker, the Scout development portfolio is currently diversified across nine US states.
Baird, an international wealth management, capital markets, private equity and asset management firm, has selected CAIS as the enterprise alternative investment platform for its financial advisers.
Established in 1919, Baird has more than 3,400 associates serving the needs of individual, corporate, institutional and municipal clients, and has more than USD170 billion in client assets under management.
“The CAIS platform provides the turnkey access to high-quality alternative investment funds that Baird has been looking for,” says Dayna Kleinman (pictured), director and senior product manager for alternative investments at Baird. “Baird advisers can now turn to the CAIS platform when
Where the vulnerabilities are – It’s 3:40 on a Friday afternoon, and an urgent email hits a back-office employee’s inbox. As the employee scrambles to get ready for the market-close and head off to a three-day weekend, it looks like the portfolio manager for a major client needs him to wire USD125,000 to a bank in Grand Cayman.
His colleagues are tied up with other matters, and, since he’s eager to be responsive to this important client’s request, he follows the wire instructions in the email to complete the transfer – with just a few minutes to spare.
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FAB Partners, a global alternative investment platform, has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Halkin Asset Management, a London-based alternative asset manager.
The combined company will be rebranded as Centricus and will continue to target returns across all asset classes, sectors and geographies for its investors.
Halkin is a London-based FCA-regulated and SEC registered multi-manager platform, offering portfolio management and advisory services. It provides complete solutions to early stage and established portfolio managers.
The transaction will support the expansion of Halkin’s onshore asset management capabilities, as well as its corporate finance advisory business.
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