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Context Asset Management, a new alternative mutual fund, is aiming to give investors access to cutting-edge alternative investment strategies with the ease and simplicity of traditional mutual funds.
Alternative mutual funds have enjoyed rapid growth in recent years driven by institutional and retail investors looking for hedge fund-like returns with lower fees and advisors responding to client demands for an alternative to traditional portfolio construction.
Context's solutions combine the low correlation and low volatility of hedge fund strategies with the transparency and low minimums of traditional investing.
"At Context, we have made a commitment to helping our clients
Business Growth Fund (BGF) has invested GBP10m for a minority stake in The Consulting Consortium (TCC), a UK independent regulatory and compliance consultancy.
Headquartered in London with an office in Leeds, TCC provides specialist regulatory compliance services to FCA regulated firms in the financial industry.
TCC has advised over 250 financial services clients since 2001 and more than 140 in the last two years including a number of FTSE 100 and multi-national companies.
Entrepreneur Joanne Smith founded TCC in 2000. With over 20 years’ experience in the financial services industry, she began her career at the Financial Services Authority
Advent International, ATP and Bain Capital are to acquire 100 per cent of the share capital of Nets from the existing shareholders, a group of 186 primarily Danish and Norwegian banks, for a cash consideration of DKK17.0bn, corresponding to a price per share of DKK92.37.
In addition, the shareholders will receive the dividend for 2013 totalling DKK498m, or DKK2.70 per share.
The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals/confirmations and is expected to close in the second quarter of 2014.
Nets, headquartered in Copenhagen, is a Northern European provider of payments, information and digital identity solutions. Founded in 1968,
Funds professionals are anticipating particular growth in the real estate and private equity asset classes, according to a poll held at the Jersey Finance Annual London Funds Conference this week.
At the conference, held in London on 19 March, an audience of senior funds professionals was asked where they saw most growth coming from in the months ahead.
Some 33 per cent of attendees indicated that real estate was the biggest growth area for them, with 27 per cent indicating that they saw most potential in private equity.
Attendees also said they thought most opportunities would come from
Private investment firm TPG is to acquire The Warranty Group, a provider of warranty solutions and related programmes, from Onex Corporation for an enterprise value of approximately USD1.5bn.
Under the terms of the agreement, TPG will acquire The Warranty Group and its operating units including Virginia Surety Company, London General Insurance Company, and Resource Automotive.
The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2014, and is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.
“We are excited to partner with TPG, which will provide our company with the global resources and deep financial industry expertise
Ingenious Clean Energy and energy efficiency solutions company Anesco are to collaborate on a major energy efficiency upgrade for a secondary school in Dorset.
AESSL, an energy efficiency services company backed by the Ingenious Energy Efficiency EIS Fund, has invested GBP2m in the project, which will transform the energy efficiency of the buildings comprising St Mary’s, a secondary school in Shaftesbury with 300 pupils.
The technical delivery of the project will be managed by Anesco, a long-time energy efficiency partner of Ingenious Clean Energy.
AESSL will operate on a performance based energy savings model, also known as the
Management consulting firm AT Kearney has expanded its private equity practice with the hiring of three new partners, Mark Anglin, Michael Dart and Todd Hooper, who specialise in consumer goods and retail investments.
They join AT Kearney from Kurt Salmon and collectively bring a full breadth of strategy and transformation capabilities to serve private equity investors and consumer-retail industry clients.
"We're especially pleased Mark, Michael and Todd have chosen to join our private equity team and confident they will continue to drive our rapid growth in the consumer and retail sector," says Robert Haas, partner and head of AT Kearney's
Court Square Capital Partners – along with participation by the existing senior management team – will lead an equity investment that will result in the purchase of a majority interest in Conterra Ultra Broadband Holdings.
The transaction includes the acquisition of stakes owned by the company's current institutional shareholders, including affiliates of Goldman Sachs, Duke Energy and GE Capital.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
This investment will bolster Conterra's expansion of its broadband network operations on a national basis in order to capitalise on the growing demand for high-capacity, carrier-class bandwidth services by the company's customers
LongueVue Capital (LVC), a New Orleans-based private equity firm, has invested USD8m of senior secured debt in Prime Health Services, a national provider of medical cost containment solutions.
Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee, Prime Health is a diversified medical cost containment company that offers a full spectrum of services, including a nationwide Preferred Provider Organisation (PPO) as well as medical cost containment solutions.
Prime Health's cost containment services are tailored to the workers' compensation, auto liability and corrections markets. The company's primary customer base includes insurance companies, third party administrators, and self-insured employers.
"Prime Health
invendo medical, a manufacturer and distributor of a single-use and computer-assisted colonoscopy system, has closed a EUR20.3m financing round led by new investor Xeraya Capital, which invested via an affiliated company.
A German family office also joined as a new investor and existing investors TVM Capital, Wellington Partner, 360° Capital and the founders participated in the financing as well.
The financing will allow invendo to kick-off its industrialisation efforts for the FDA-cleared invendoscopy system.
The invendoscope SC20 has several features that are new to the field of colonoscopy:
— It is the only market-cleared single-use colonoscope
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