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An increasing proportion of investors in hedge funds are based in the Asia-Pacific region. Who are these investors and which strategies are they targeting? Preqin examines the hedge fund investor landscape within this dynamic region.
Asia-Pacific is home to just under two-thirds of the world’s population and is a burgeoning region encompassing emerging, developing and advanced economies. Rapid growth has led to immense wealth generation that has contributed to a surplus of savings from countries in the region. Given this backdrop, institutional investors based in the region have been growing in prominence over recent years. Entrusted with vast amounts of
The director general of the Institute of Directors (IoD) has called for investments in venture capital trusts to be given tax breaks to push funding towards British businesses.
In a speech to shareholders of Albion Ventures, Simon Walker urged the government to extend to venture capital trusts the exemption from inheritance tax that investments in Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) schemes currently enjoy.
Walker argued that venture capital supported the “vibrant small-scale enterprises on which our economic future depends”. He said investors were “relatively ordinary people” thinking about their future and “providing investments that
International investment bank Altium has advised Castik Capital on its recommended cash offer for the entire share capital of Waterlogic, a global distributor of drinking water purification and dispensing systems.
The cash offer has been made through Poseidon Bidco Ltd, a newly formed entity incorporated by Castik-managed EPIC Funds.
Waterlogic is listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) and has 780,000 point-of-use water systems installed across 50 countries including Australia, the US, Norway, Sweden, Germany and the UK. Founded in 1992, the company typically supplies its products to commercial customers for use in offices, factories, hospitals, hotels, schools and
Patron Capital is selling a minority stake of up to 23 per cent of its portfolio company Generator to Invesco Ltd in exchange for up to EUR60m of growth capital.
Invesco’s stake in Generator is the inaugural investment by Invesco’s second opportunistic strategy, focussed on real-estate-related investments in both the US and Europe and co-managed by Invesco Real Estate, WL Ross & Co, and Invesco Fixed Income.
The capital will be used to increase the number of Generator properties across the globe. The chain currently has 5,200 beds in eight properties across Europe, a number that will near 7,000
HealthEdge Investment Fund II has completed its investment in Data Dimensions, a healthcare related business process outsourcing and automation services provider, which becomes the fund’s fourth portfolio company.
Data Dimensions provides a complete range of outsourcing and professional services, including mailroom management and converting paper forms (i.e. insurance claims, medical claims, dental claims, loan applications, HR forms, and surveys) and unstructured hardcopy documents (i.e. drawings, diagrams, and X-rays) into electronic documents through various forms of document capture services, digital voice recording services, physical records storage, and electronic retrieval services through a state-of-the-art Tier III data centre.
Data Dimensions was
The Conifer Group, which merged with Vastardis Capital to form Conifer Financial Services – an asset services firm offering front to back capabilities across all asset classes to pensions, endowments, family offices, hedge funds, private equity and venture capital managers, RIAs and traditional asset managers – is celebrating 25 years in the industry.
Jack McDonald, president and CEO of Conifer Financial Services, says: "Bill Vastardis and I extend our personal assurance that the superior services our clients have enjoyed will continue. We are committed to providing enviable levels of personal service, technology and financial expertise that are unsurpassed in the
CITIC and KKR jointly have formed a consortium to make a pre-conditional voluntary offer (VGO) for all the shares in United Envirotech Ltd (UEL).
UEL is a Singapore-listed membrane-based water and waste-water treatment and reclamation solution provider with businesses mainly in China’s chemical, petrochemical and industrial park sectors.
The transaction allows CITIC to become the controlling shareholder of UEL through the holding of a majority interest in the consortium. This will be achieved by the consortium through the VGO subject to conditions being met, to acquire existing shares in UEL from the existing shareholders including KKR. In addition, after
Chuck Hansen, managing partner of Hansen Investment Holdings, has joined the investment board of Moneta Ventures.
Headquartered in Folsom, California, Moneta Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage companies with a focus on software and cloud services, IT services, internet and consumer services sectors.
Moneta Ventures invests between USD50,000 and USD2 million per investment with companies typically having annual revenues between USD1 million and USD5 million. While not restricted geographically, many of its funded companies are located in underserved markets on the US West Coast.
“I’m delighted to join such an esteemed group of
French private equity investments rebounded sharply during the first half of 2014 in terms of total value as well as the number of companies supported, according to statistics released by the AFIC and Grant Thornton.
Some EUR3.6bn was invested (+39 per cent / H1 2013) in 895 companies (+17 per cent / H1 2013, +8 per cent / average for 2006-2013). More than half of total amounts invested were devoted to new companies (EUR1.9bn). Eighty five per cent of companies receiving investments are headquartered in France (EUR2.9bn).
Growth capital registered very strong growth and reached a historic high for
Varonis Systems is to supply Abacus Group, a provider of hosted IT solutions for hedge funds and private equity funds, with a platform to monitor, manage and capture unstructured data in the Abacus private cloud.
Through this new relationship Abacus clients will have access to enhanced reporting capabilities and greater visibility into their IT infrastructure as required by global regulators and investors.
Changes in regulatory compliance are driving a demand in the financial markets for better reporting and oversight. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) has recently issued a Risk Alert on
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