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Taliance, an analytics software provider in the alternative investment marketplace, has selected Hipercept, to serve as its channel partner for North and South America.
Taliance’s software solution, GlobalAsset, complements the technology infrastructure of alternative asset investment firms through real-time, dynamic forecasting, scenario modelling, and consolidated analytics capability for the front and middle office. Using GlobalAsset, customers in over 16 countries have demonstrably improved the performance of their international investment portfolios.
“Alternative asset investment firms worldwide have long demanded fund and asset analytics technologies that are able transcend the obvious shortcomings of home-grown spreadsheets and disparate data,” says Damien Georges
A couple of years ago, the title Chief Information Security Officer, or CISO for short, was a foreign concept within the hedge fund community. The winds have changed, however, as hedge funds become increasingly targeted by cyber hackers, causing many to hire a CISO to uphold the network integrity of the firm.
But what exactly should a hedge fund CISO be looking for when assessing the security of a SaaS provider in this fight against cyber sabotage?
Ken MacCuish is ideally placed to shed some light on this. He is the Senior Vice President and CISO at Intralinks, Inc. Prior
Centrus Advisors, a treasury, corporate and project finance advisory firm, has appointed Fiona O’Driscoll as Director in the firm’s Dublin Office.
O’Driscoll has over 11 years’ experience in capital markets and project finance spanning the infrastructure, utilities and renewable energy sectors. Ms O’Driscoll has recently completed the Lisbon MBA International in Portugal with a focus on social finance in her final thesis. Prior to this, she was a Senior Portfolio Manager at Dexia where she was responsible for a large, global infrastructure investments portfolio, building upon previous debt arranging and investment management experience gained at DEPFA Bank in Dublin and
Morrison & Foerster has appointed corporate lawyer Graeme Sloan as a partner in the Mergers and Acquisitions practice in the firm’s London office.
Sloan will head the firm’s London corporate practice and will serve as global co-chair of the firm’s M&A practice. Sloan’s arrival continues the expansion of the firm’s presence in Europe following the opening of the firm’s office in Germany.
Sloan joins the firm from Latham & Watkins, where he served as global co-chair of their M&A practice. His practice focuses on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, acting for both strategic and private equity buyers, as well as
Livingstone’s Debt Advisory has advised Ding on its acquisition of US based iSend. Livingstone arranged debt facilities to support the acquisition and fund other projects.
Ding is a provider of international top-up services for mobile phones and is headquartered in Dublin, with offices across the globe. Ding is a service that anyone can use to top up a mobile phone in another country and its network now numbers over 350 mobile operators across 130 countries, supporting 3.5 billion phones. Ding was founded in 2006 by entrepreneur Mark Roden and in the year ended December 2014 it generated revenues of USD250m,
LBO France has completed the acquisition, from Roger Zannier, of IKKS, a French ready-to-wear clothing brands focused on the “casual chic” segment.
LBO France became the majority shareholder and Roger Zannier retained about 30 per cent of the company's capital. Furthermore, Silverfern, a fund specialised in co-investment, entered the capital structure of IKKS as a minority shareholder.
Alongside the management team, LBO France would continue to support the group’s growth, notably by accelerating its development in Paris, implementing a significantly strengthened communications programme, as well as supporting international expansion.
The IKKS Group has a portfolio of three complementary brands
Financial services private equity investor Cabot Square Capital has promoted investment directors Tarun Sharma and Richard McDougall, and General Counsel Lawrence J Small to Partner.
Managing Partner, John Van Deventer, says: “Reaching the milestone of the close of our fifth fund is an appropriate point for us to reflect Cabot Square’s growing size, and the outstanding contributions made by Tarun, Richard and Larry by announcing their promotions to Partner.”
Sharma (pictured) originally joined Cabot Square in May 2008. Prior to joining the Firm, Sharma spent seven years with HSBC, primarily in their securitisation team. Sharma has also worked in
For any hedge fund manager, winning a mandate from a sovereign wealth fund (SWF) is the Holy Grail. These are the biggest institutional investors on the planet and also offer, potentially, the stickiest capital given their multi-year investment horizons.
One should therefore take encouragement from the fact that SWF allocations to hedge funds have steadily risen from 31 per cent in 2013 to 33 per cent today, according to the latest research by Preqin in their Hedge Fund Spotlight June report. But the fact remains that SWFs remain under-allocated to the asset class; 60 per cent do not invest at
Tiptree Financial has completed the previously announced sale of its subsidiary Philadelphia Financial Group to funds managed by Blackstone.
The deal includes both Philadelphia’s Third Party Administration and Life Insurance operations (PFG).
The sellers received a payment of USD155 million at closing and will receive additional two payments over the next two years totaling approximately USD9 million. Tiptree owned approximately 94 per cent of PFG and the remainder was owned by PFG’s employees.
Private equity firm TA Associates and Argan (Mauritius), a company controlled by Indium V, are to invest approximately USD500 million to acquire shares of Atria Convergence Technologies, a provider of broadband services in India.
The transaction is expected to close subject to customary closing conditions, including the receipt of required regulatory approvals. As part of this transaction, the incumbent shareholders of ACT, including India Value Fund III (sole trustee of IVF Trustee Company Private Limited), the current majority shareholder of ACT, will be divesting a significant portion of their shareholdings. India Value Fund Advisors (IVFA), one of India’s leading private
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