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US private equity and venture capital funds generated positive returns for their investors in the second quarter of 2014, with the former asset class outperforming the latter by a margin of almost two to one.
Private equity also surpassed venture capital over the six-month period ending June 30, and both surpassed the performance of public equities at the half-year mark, according to Cambridge Associates.
The Cambridge Associates LLC US Private Equity Index rose 5.7% in Q2, versus an increase of 3.0% for the Cambridge Associates LLC US Venture Capital Index. The PE benchmark was up 8.9% at mid-year while the
Hipercept has expanded its existing services to formally support Private Equity companies. The firm will leverage its global infrastructure to provide a suite of managed services to the Alternative Investment industry.
Since its creation in 2009, Hipercept has engaged with numerous Private Equity and large multi-asset clients. Focusing on Private Equity as an asset class has become both an opportunity and a strategic necessity.
"Private market players, either from the investor community or from a fund management perspective, have diversified with multi-asset investment strategies," says Damien Georges, CEO of Hipercept. "This has naturally led Hipercept in the same direction. When
Albion Ventures has led a GBP3.2m investment round in Exco InTouch (Exco), an electronic Patient Reported Outcomes (ePRO) and patient engagement software business.
Founder investor, Scottish Equity Partners (“SEP”), also participated in the round and remains the company’s largest shareholder.
Founded in 2004 by its current CEO, Tim Davis, Exco provides mobile and digital services to pharmaceutical companies for the engagement and collection of information from patients in clinical trials and real-life settings (ePRO). This rapidly growing sector is being driven by the increasing need to demonstrate actual benefits of medical treatments for regulatory and reimbursement purposes. Exco’s
German Equity Partners IV (GEP IV), a fund managed by the German private equity firm ECM Equity Capital Management (ECM), has acquired 100% of the equity of travel operator Leitner.
The shares, previously wholly owned by the Blankenburg family, have been transferred to GEP IV with effect from 8 December. The purchase price and further details of the transaction were not disclosed. After more than 20 years of steady growth the previous shareholders – together with the company’s new shareholder and its current management – intend to capitalise on Leitner’s strong market position and scalable business model to capitalize on
Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised CEE Equity Partners Limited (CEEEP) on its acquisition of a majority stake in BKF University of Applied Sciences, a private higher education business in Hungary.
“It was great to work with CEEEP, a growing client for White & Case, on its first investment outside of Poland,” says Budapest-based White & Case partner Edward Keller, who led the team which advised CEEEP. “The transaction was of particular importance as it was the first sizeable private equity investment in a higher education institution in the region.”
CEEEP is the investment advisor for
Circle Squared Alternative Investments (CSQ) has partnered with USD1.5bn money management and investment consulting firm Strategic Capital Alternatives (SCA).
SCA provides customised investment portfolio models and operational platforms to independent registered investment advisors (RIAs).
The partnership is aiming to empower advisors who work with SCA to capitalise on an investment model long employed by institutional investors – the outsourcing of highly specialised CIO-level analysis – but just now becoming available to independent financial advisors.
“Our OCIO model is a direct response to advisors’ recognising their efforts are much better spent on gathering assets than managing them, something institutions figured out
Private equity firm NorthEdge Capital has strengthened its team with the appointment of James Marshall as Investment Executive.
NorthEdge, which focuses on investing in businesses based in the North of England, has seen a very active year and has now made 10 investments from its maiden fund, representing over GB{100m of investment into the Northern business community during the last 18 months.
Marshall will be based in the firm’s Leeds office. A Chartered Accountant, he joins from corporate finance specialist, Dow Schofield Watts, where he was instrumental in establishing its Yorkshire team. Prior to this Marshall spent three years
Private equity firm Vector Capital has promoted Alex Beregovsky and Andy Fishman to Managing Director.
“We are extremely proud of what Alex and Andy have accomplished,” says Alex Slusky, Vector Capital’s Chief Investment Officer. “After joining us shortly after business school, they have grown into management roles at Vector, delivering both thought leadership and investment returns to the firm. Their success further validates Vector’s commitment to advancing its performers and promoting from within.”
Fishman joined Vector in 2008. He leads Vector’s applications software team. He currently serves on the board of Allegro Development. He was previously a Director of RAE Systems (acquired
Global assets under management* of the private real estate industry have reached USD742bn, an all-time high for the industry, and up from USD697bn as of the end of 2013. Preqin’s Andrew Moylan takes a look at the latest stats on the industry.
Preqin’s latest research shows the private equity real estate industry continued to grow in 2014. The aggregate assets under management (AUM) of closed-end private real estate funds stands at USD742bn as of June 2014, an increase of USD45bn since December 2013. Total AUM has increased by 63% since December 2010, with a large proportion of this growth accounted
French private equity firm Idinvest Partners is now managing assets on behalf of French and international investors of in excess of EUR5 billion.
The firm has backed 3,500 companies since its launch in 1997 and spin-off from the Allianz Group in 2010.
Since Idinvest Partners became independent 4 years ago, the firm’s AUM have doubled from EUR2.5 billion to EUR5 billion. To support this growth, the team has also doubled in size, expanding from 25 to 48 people.
The pace of fundraising accelerated over the course of 2014, as the firm raised over EUR1 billion across various strategies including private
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