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Total assets managed by the Top 100 alternative investment managers globally reached USD3.5 trillion in 2014 (USD3.3 trillion in 2013), according to research produced by Towers Watson.
The Global Alternatives Survey, which covers nine asset classes and seven investor types, shows that of the Top 100 alternative investment managers, real estate managers have the largest share of assets (33 per cent and over USD1 trillion), followed by hedge funds (23 per cent and USD791bn), private equity fund managers (22 per cent and USD767bn), private equity funds of funds (PEFoFs) (10 per cent and USD342bn), funds of hedge funds (FoHFs) (5
It was once again a decisive week for the EU with market participants granting an ever rising probability of Grexit. European assets experienced sizeable pressure during the period under review, though there has been a respite towards the end of the week following the conciliatory tone of the Greek government.
Burr Pilger Mayer has expanded its alternative investment practice with the opening of an office in the Cayman Islands.
“We opened the Cayman Islands Office to meet the demands of our growing Hedge Fund and Alternative Investment Group,” says Brian Finnegan, Leader of the Firm’s Assurance Practice Group and Financial Services Industry Group. “The Cayman Islands is the world leader as a domicile for hedge fund managers, institutional sponsors, financial service firms and private equity investors.”
Finnegan and his team help clients manage the full range of issues that affect global businesses and investors, including:
• Annual audits of financial
Global institutional investors have an estimated USD1 trillion of funds at their disposal for potential investments in European infrastructure over the next ten years but a combination of limited available assets, changing economic regulation and new government incentives are set to alter traditional investment flows.
Linklaters’ research shows that M&A levels remain depressed on pre-crisis levels with USD113.45bn invested in the last five years as compared to USD1.053tn the previous five years. One factor that remains consistent, however, are those countries which take the ‘lion’s share’ of this investment. For example, the UK took 26% of the total over five
The former team of Plymouth Exploration has formed Triumph Energy Partners with a USD100 million equity commitment from Kayne Anderson Energy Funds and members of the management team.
Triumph is a private exploration and production company formed to pursue the acquisition and development of oil and natural gas assets with a focus towards historically productive reservoirs with identifiable upside through modern drilling and completion techniques. The Company will focus on opportunities in the Mid-Continent region. The Triumph management team is led by Jack Kueser, Joel Blake, Kyle Hill and Kerby Hunt who were previously the core senior management team of
Private equity firm HGGC has completed the equity recapitalisation of Selligent SA, a Belgium-based B2C marketing automation software provider.
HGGC’s investment will help the rapidly growing company expand into new markets and broaden its technology platform. As part of the agreement, the Company’s founders and management will retain a significant minority stake in the business, which will remain headquartered in Europe. Terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Selligent provides full, end-to-end customer lifecycle management in a single solution for more than 450 companies in retail, financial services, publishing and travel and other sectors in 19
Exceptional Innovation has completed the acquisition of Quadriga Worldwide Limited and its subsidiaries (Quadriga), an international provider of managed guest services for the hospitality industry and The SmarTV Company (SmarTV), an developer of interactive entertainment solutions for commercial and consumer markets.
The combined companies will form a global technology service provider that maximises guest engagement and satisfaction, enhances the entertainment experience, and increases revenue while delivering operational efficiencies for hotels. The group will have its headquarters in the Netherlands and significant operating subsidiaries located in England and the United States, as well as regional offices in Europe, Africa and the
Crowd analytics specialist Crowd Vision has completed a combined funding round which brings on-board significant US investment, providing a partial exit for the business’ early stage angel investors, including the Angel CoFund.
This partial exit will allow the Angel CoFund to re-invest the funds back into more high-growth British businesses.
Crowd Vision’s core offering enables a wide range of customers to perform live crowd analytics, tracking the movement and concentration of people from a standard video feed. This funding will be used to support Crowd Vision, as the business eyes up the next growth stage.
The company was set up
Xagenic, a molecular diagnostics company developing the lab-free Xagenic X1 platform for use at the point of care, has raised CAD15 million. Each of the Series B investors has participated in this financing, including Domain Associates, CTI Life Sciences, BDC Capital and the Ontario Capital Growth Corporation.
“This investment round is a testament to the faith our existing investors have in the power of the Xagenic X1 platform and the promise of our enzyme-free approach to molecular diagnostics,” says Timothy I Still, Chief Executive Officer of Xagenic. “This funding will accelerate our development efforts in bringing our point-of-care diagnostic platform
Partners Group is to acquire Knowledge Universe's US early-childhood education business, KUE LLC, on behalf of its clients.
KUE LLC is the largest for-profit provider of early childhood education in the US and the parent company of KinderCare Learning Centers, as well as the brands Children’s Creative Learning Centers (CCLC) and Champions. The transaction is expected to close later this year.
KinderCare Learning Centers has been educating and caring for children for over 45 years and has a strong reputation for delivering high-quality educational programs through approximately 1,400 centres in 38 states. KinderCare is on track to achieve 100 per
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