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The Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) has formed PSP Investments Holding USA in New York to focus on principal debt and credit investments led by industry veteran David Scudellari.
Scudellari has also been appointed as Senior Vice President, Head of Principal Debt and Credit Investments of PSP Investments.
"The leveraged finance landscape is currently in transition. With traditional capital providers having lost significant market share in the last few years, there is an attractive opportunity for a long-term investor such as PSP Investments to enter this trillion-dollar plus asset class through its US affiliate," says André Bourbonnais (pictured), President and CEO of PSP Investments.
Venture capital trust (VCT) provider Octopus Investments has launched a GBP30 million fundraise for Octopus Apollo Venture Capital Trust (Apollo VCT).
The new share offer for Apollo VCT comes just two months after Octopus Titan Venture Capital Trust (Titan VCT) launched a GBP50 million fundraising offer.
Launched in 2006, Apollo VCT seeks to invest in established, profitable companies with the aim of providing investors with a regular tax-free dividend income and has built a strong track record of delivering regular returns on an annual basis. It paid its first dividend in 2008 and since then has paid out a
Open source solutions provider Smile is in exclusive negotiations to acquire Open Wide, a move that will broaden the Smile’s offering while strengthening its position in the open source sector.
European growth private equity investor Keensight Capital, the majority shareholder in Smile alongside Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners (Cabestan), has been working with Smile’s management team since the end of 2013, particularly by guiding the company in successfully deploying its external growth strategy.
Founded in 2001, Open Wide has built a rosta of blue chip clients, including Airbus, Thales, Safran and Samsung. The company employs nearly 150 people though
oOh!media Limited is to acquire 100 per cent of the share capital of Inlink Group Limited (Inlink) for USD45 million. The acquisition is in line with oOh!’s digital strategy of driving engagement with audiences through digital screens in high dwell time locations and will further drive oOh!’s digital market leadership.
Inlink formed in 2001, and has grown to be the market leader in premium CBD Digital Out Of Home market, with a network of more than 2,800 digital screens located in office towers, cafes and fitness centres.
The acquisition is expected to be immediately EPS accretive and will be
Hawksford has boosted its corporate and private client offering with the promotion of two managers with over 40 years’ combined industry experience to associate director roles – Christine Simpson in the private client team and Sian Huish in the corporate team.
Simpson, joined Hawksford as a manager within the private client team in April having previously worked for Capco Trust. She is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) with more than 25 years’ experience in the offshore finance industry. In her new role Simpson will have responsibility for driving Hawksford’s high standards of client service
HIG Growth Partners, the dedicated growth capital investment affiliate of HIG Capital, has recapitalised Centerfield Media Holdings in partnership with the Company’s co-founders Jason Cohen and Brett Cravatt.
Centerfield is a digital advertising technology company that is focused on real time biddable media enabling the targeting and acquisition of high performing, high life time value customers for its clients across numerous industries. The Company leverages a proprietary and purpose-built end-to-end technology platform to automatically optimise each part of the customer acquisition, education and conversion process. This platform technology empowers Centerfield to identify and acquire customers across a variety of digital
With some of the biggest names in private equity real estate raising ever larger funds, this extract from Preqin Real Estate Spotlight looks at how emerging managers are faring in the fundraising market and how investor appetite for new firms is changing.
The fundraising environment for emerging managers* seems especially daunting in recent times amid intense competition for fundraising; managers lacking an established track record are finding it difficult to gain traction and secure institutional investor commitments. Larger, more experienced real estate firms, however, have been securing ever greater proportions of fundraising, but has this been at the expense of
Australian private equity and venture capital has continued to deliver strong returns, outperforming the S&P/ASX 300 Index by over 8 per cent in the June 2015 quarter and delivering a 23 per cent net return for the year to 30 June 2015.
That’s according to data released today by the Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association Limited (AVCAL) and Cambridge Associates.
The Cambridge Associates LLC Australia Private Equity and Venture Capital Index (the CA Australia Index) – which is the leading independent performance benchmark for the private equity and venture capital asset class – outperformed the listed markets through
The Leland Family of Funds, in conjunction with Thomson Reuters, has launched the Leland Thomson Reuters Venture Capital Index Fund which, as its name suggests, tracks the Thomson Reuters Venture Capital Index.
Launched in October, 2012, the Thomson Reuters Venture Capital Index is an investable index that tracks the performance of individual US venture capital-backed private companies via liquid, publicly traded assets. It utilises economic factors and market indicators to calculate optimal asset weights across a number of sectors and modifies the portfolio over time to reflect changes in the US venture capital universe.
"Historically, sophisticated institutional investors have
Technology and Consulting firm Methys has appointed Jean Philippe Gireaud as Head of International Business Development, a move designed to support the firm’s strategy to increase its presence in Continental Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
Based in Paris, Jean-Philippe will be responsible for developing new streams of business across all Methys products and services.
In his previous role, Jean Philippe Gireaud spent five years at eFront where he was Area Sales Manager in Europe and Africa. Prior to that he held various Senior Sales and Presales with GL Trade (acquired by Sungard in 2009). Jean-Philippe started his
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