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Tideway Investment Partners LLP (Tideway) has become the latest high-profile investment manager to add its funds to ISEFundHub (https://isefundhub.com). Since its launch by the Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) in November 2014, approximately 50 investment fund managers have joined ISEFundHub to display information on their funds, ranging from net asset value (NAV) to performance analytics and peer comparisons.
“Managers can host key fund documents such as factsheets, KIIDS, annual reports, and display their fund NAV history for each share class. ISEFundHub can be used by funds that are listed on ISE, as well as non-listed Irish-domiciled funds,” comments Rose
IGF, a commercial finance provider for SMEs, has completed GBP5 million in asset based financing to Scottish SMEs since its launch in July.
The strong appetite of businesses in this region has led the company to allocate an additional GBP5 million fund specifically intended to support management buyout (MBO) activity.
In the four months since opening its Scotland branch, IGF has provided facilities to 10 clients, ranging from a GBP100,000 invoice finance facility to a GBP2 million asset based lending facility, funding assets including stock and property. The businesses that have benefitted from the support of IGF operate across
Private equity-backed materials handling firm FPE Global has acquired mixing technology specialists JW Process Equipment.
Founded in 2016 by engineering entrepreneur James Winkworth, JWP provides mixing technology and processing solutions to customers across a range of process industries.
Based in Surrey, the company has a team of industry experts all of whom will be transferred to FPE Global as part of the deal.
Headquartered in Manchester and employing more than 60 staff, FPE Global focuses on the design, manufacture and servicing of materials handling solutions into numerous industry sectors around the world. The company was backed by private
EOS Investment Management has launched and raised EUR55 million for EOS Private Equity, its new Luxembourg fund that will invest in growing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) based in Europe, with a focus on Italy.
The fund continues to target a final close of EUR150 million from qualified investors and has just completed its first acquisition Poplast.
EOS Private Equity has acquired 86.5 per cent of Poplast, an Italian manufacturing company based in Castel San Giovanni (Piacenza), in Northern Italy, which specialises in the creation of flexible packaging, focussed on the food, pharmaceutical and industrial sectors.
The current
Livingstone has advised the shareholders of ENRA Group, including Livingbridge, on its sale to Exponent Private Equity.
ENRA Group is a provider of mortgage finance.
This is the fourth transaction the Livingstone team has advised ENRA on, previously introducing exiting chairman David Campbell on his investment in 2013, raising growth capital from Livingbridge in 2014 and its subsequent acquisition of West One Loans, also in 2014.
ENRA lends and brokers short-term bridge mortgages as well as distributing specialist second charge and buy-to-let products. The business has enjoyed strong growth on the back of its bespoke manual underwriting process
Despite the uncertainty created by the UK’s Brexit vote, the Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region is showing the strongest growth globally in early-stage merger and acquisition (M&A) activity at 13 per cent compared to the same period last year.
This is according to the latest Intralinks Deal Flow Predictor report released by Intralinks Holdings.
It also predicts that the global number of announced deals in FY 2016 will be around 3 per cent higher than FY 2015. This would make 2016 the new peak for the number of global deal announcements, surpassing the previous peak year of
AXA Investment Managers – Real Assets has completed, on behalf of AXA Germany and AXA France, and in joint venture with Crédit Agricole Assurances, the acquisition of a 42 per cent stake in Atlandes, the concession-holder of the A63 motorway in South-West France.
The vendor, InfraRed Capital Partners, an investment manager in Infrastructure and Real Estate, acting on behalf of InfraRed Infrastructure Fund III, has disposed of the entirety of the fund’s stake.
The remaining 58 per cent of Atlandes is held by a consortium of industrial partners and financial investors.
The A63 is a 104 kilometre motorway
Private equity fund managers and institutional investors in Europe have joined forces to develop portfolio company-focused due diligence guidance for responsible investment, in a new initiative launched by trade association Invest Europe.
As environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations become increasingly important to global institutional investors, Invest Europe – the trade association for European private equity, venture capital and their investors – has published an ESG Due Diligence Questionnaire for Private Equity Investors and their Portfolio Companies.
Laying out all the essential questions, it gives fund managers a framework for assessing ESG factors at the companies they own or
The World Bank Group and Ithmar Capital, a Moroccan sovereign investment fund, are to establish a Green Growth Infrastructure Facility for Africa (GGIF), the first pan-African fund dedicated to green investment in the continent.
GGIF will be structured as private capital fund and its objective is to attract private investors with interest in Morocco or Africa who are looking for responsible and green investment opportunities.
Its aim is to work as a catalyst for the transition of Africa into a green economy by supporting low carbon infrastructure such as clean energy, low carbon transportation and the efficient utilisation of
Guernsey has introduced a Private Investment Fund (PIF) regime designed to provide fund managers with greater flexibility and simplicity.
The PIF, which was developed in response to market demand by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) in consultation with the island’s GBP247 billion funds industry, recognises that certain investment funds are characterised by a relationship between management and investors that is closer than that of a typical agent.
The PIF dispenses with the formal requirement for information particulars such as a prospectus in recognition of that relationship, significantly reducing the cost and processing time of launching of a fund.
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