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Alceda Fund Management has been granted a licence to act as Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) by the Luxemburgish Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF).
The licence will enable Alceda to work with initiators of Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) covering both traditional open-end equity and bond funds as well as closed-end real asset funds.
In March 2014, Alceda Asset Management GmbH had been granted a licence to act as AIFM by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin).
Alceda manages and handles the administration of the funds issued by the Aquila Group and acts as AIFM and
Preqin assesses the evolution of infrastructure in investors’ portfolios in what is a continually maturing environment for the asset class, and examines investors’ plans for the year ahead.
Infrastructure is a growing area of interest for institutional investors, with many institutions attracted to the asset class by the offer of stable, long-term and low-risk returns. As institutions become more knowledgeable regarding infrastructure investments, increasing numbers of investors are entering the asset class, carving out dedicated allocations, or increasing their target exposure to the asset class. Using data from Preqin’s latest investor survey, we examine investors’ changing attitudes towards the asset
Nexxus Capital, through Nexxus Capital Private Equity Fund III, has partnered with Grupo Chartwell and Walton Street Capital to form Grupo Hotelero Santa Fe, a platform to operate and acquire hotels in Mexico.
As of 30 June 2014, Grupo Hotelero Santa Fe’s operating portfolio includes 13 hotels of which six are its own, four are owned by third parties and three are in development stage for a total of 3,292 current rooms plus 443 rooms under development.
The company’s hotel platform includes the brand Krystal consisting of four hotel sub-brands: Krystal Grand (5 star luxury), Krystal Resorts (5 stars),
Panoramic Growth Equity has invested GBP1 million of growth capital in family-run premium sausage makers Heck Foods, which was founded by Yorkshire farmers Andrew and Debbie Keeble.
Heck manufactures two brands of sausage – mid priced “The Harrogate Sausage Company” and its super premium “Heck” range. Its brands are sold throughout the UK in Tesco, ASDA, Morrisons, Booths and Waitrose, and via its own website.
The Keebles previously built the UK’s leading premium sausage brand, Debbie and Andrew’s. At its peak, it represented 26 per cent of the UK’s premium sausage market. Established in 1999, the business was sold to JJ
“The analogy I like to use is the Rubik’s Cube with all the colours mixed up. What we do is take clients through the process of realigning all their data – getting the colours of each block to match – to transform their data infrastructure,” says David van Rooyen, one of the founders of London-based Pomerol Partners.
Pomerol Partners is a business intelligence consultancy that specialises in advanced data visualisations. The firm builds business toolsets – dashboards – to help senior executives make more informed decisions. That sounds straightforward but within the financial services industry, particularly global investment banks, such
Over three-fifths of institutional investors have chosen not to invest in a private equity fund as a direct result of unfavourable fund terms, according to a Preqin study.
Data from Preqin’s forthcoming 2014 Private Equity Fund Terms Advisor suggests that private equity fund managers are not doing enough to appease their institutional backers with regards to the fees they charge.
Management fees, traditionally charged at two per cent of capital committed to a fund each year, are mostly used to cover the operating costs of a fund manager. Investors, however, have been calling for these fees to be reduced,
Yukon Partners has appointed Robert (Bill) W Van Sant and Dr Brent Bauer as special advisors.
Van Sant will assist with investments primarily in the manufacturing, business services, and industrial sectors.
He is a seasoned operating veteran with over 40 years of senior leadership in both public and privately held companies. He is the former operating partner of Stone Arch Capital and Norwest Equity Partners.
“Bill Van Sant brings with him a wealth of industry knowledge and unmatched investment stewardship that will further bolster the Yukon investment platform. Bill's unique leadership style will enhance our strategic vision, and
GSV Asset Management and Gentry Financial Group have launched GSV Financial Group, which will operate four principal businesses previously managed under the Gentry brand.
The four brands are:
• GSV Ventures (formerly Gentry Venture Partners LLC)
• GSV Securities (formerly Gentry Capital Advisors LLC)
• GSV Equity (formerly Gentry Venture Management LLC)
• GSV Investment Advisors (formerly Gentry Private Wealth Management LLC)
As part of the transition, Gentry Financial Group, the parent company for these businesses, will re-brand as GSV Financial Group.
According to Larry Aschebrook, Gentry’s founder and CEO of GSV Financial Group, the alignment with GSV
The Ariadne Capital Entrepreneurs Fund has made an additional four investments into digital technology firms, bringing the fund’s portfolio to seven with six more investments planned for 2014.
The fund participated in the recent funding rounds of Taggstar, MoneyDashboard, MADE TV and SoundOut.
In addition, it has invested alongside Barry Silbert, founder of Second Market, in Bitx, the emerging market bitcoin exchange led by Marcus Swanepoel. Ariadne believes that the banks will back digital currencies and that Swanepoel and Bitx will lead this market.
The Ariadne Capital Entrepreneurs Fund backs ‘Digital Enablers’ with GBP250,000 to GBP500,000 of capital
MEASAT International (South Asia) has reached financial close on a USD225 million project financing, to fund the project costs related to the construction and launch of its satellite, MEASAT-3b (M3b).
Natixis and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) acted as joint financial advisers, with Natixis also acting as the Coface agent in the first ever satellite project financing with Coface export credit insurance for an Asian satellite operator.
Coface is reinsured by UK EF for the portion of the satellite components manufactured in UK.
Natixis and SMBC also acted as mandated lead arrangers, alongside other leading international and local
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