Latest News
Sprott Consulting has been awarded the mandate to co-manage a 10-year USD375m private equity fund by South Korea's National Pension Service (NPS).
A matching USD375m co-investment commitment is to be provided by the state-owned Korean Electrical Power Company (KEPCO), the largest electric utility in Korea.
Sprott Consulting will serve as co-manager of the fund along with Woori Asset Management, the asset manager of Korea's largest bank, Woori Financial Group. The mandate of the fund will be to make private equity investments in the global natural resources and power sectors.
"We are pleased to have been awarded this mandate
Global equities have much more room to appreciate given the positive global economic backdrop, and US equities are likely to prove the star performer in 2014, according to John F Vail (pictured), Chief Global Strategist and Chair of the Nikko Asset Management’s Global Investment Committee (GIC)…
On the back of a spectacular year of performance for indices such as the S&P 500 and the Nikkei 225, equities generally topped the GIC’s forecasts for 2013. We have been overweight equities since September 2011.
In the US, booming home prices added around USD428 billion to US household wealth in the 3rd quarter,
Ares Capital has acquired a diversified middle-market corporate loan portfolio managed by a global banking institution for approximately USD319m.
The portfolio is primarily comprised of first lien senior loans, and to a lesser extent, second lien loans and small equity co-investments.
The portfolio is comprised of 32 investments in 23 portfolio companies in industries that are generally similar to those in Ares Capital’s portfolio.
“As the banking industry faces increasing regulatory restrictions, we are seeing more opportunities such as this to purchase high-quality, middle-market loan portfolios from financial institutions where we see potential to create value,” says Michael
Oakley Capital Corporate Finance has advised on the sale of cloud services provider e-know.net to Nasstar to create a significant new quoted cloud hosting and applications business.
Nasstar has announced the proposed acquisition of Denara, the holding company of e-know.net, for an equity consideration of GBP13m. Oakley is advising Denara on the transaction.
e-know.net provides a comprehensive cloud services package, offering hosted desktop and hosted exchange services, with the ability to host a wide variety of software applications on behalf of clients, as well as providing hosted telephony and managed data network services. e-know.net has high recurring revenues and
ICL, a global minerals based products producer, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Vale Fertilizantes’s share in Fosbrasil, a joint venture producing purified phosphoric acid and raw materials for fertilisers located in Brazil.
The proposed transaction is subject to the approval of Brazilian competition authorities (CADE) and other customary approvals.
The purchase of Vale’s shares will increase ICL’s ownership share to a majority position in a major producer of phosphoric acid in South America.
The transaction supports and is in concert with ICL’s recent announcement on its new strategy “The Next Step Forward,” as the acquisition
HgCapital, the European sector-focused private equity investor, has acquired 91.85 per cent of Personal & Informatik (P&I), a payroll and transaction HR software provider, from The Carlyle Group.
Headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, P&I provides payroll and HR-related software to mid-market companies and the public sector in Germany and the surrounding region.
The company serves almost 4,000 direct and 15,000 indirect customers and generated revenue of EUR82m in FY 2013. The business offers software for the management of payroll, workforce, time management and human capital management. It typically services SMEs with 200 to 5,000 employees across industries as well as
The management board of Kabel Deutschland has signed a domination and profit and loss transfer agreement pursuant to section 291 of the German Stock Corporation Act between Kabel Deutschland as the controlled entity and Vodafone Vierte Verwaltungs as the controlling entity.
Vodafone Vierte Verwaltungs currently owns 76.57 per cent of the shares of Kabel Deutschland.
The domination and profit and loss transfer agreement still requires the approval by the extraordinary general meeting of Kabel Deutschland which is scheduled to take place in Munich on 13 February 2014.
In the agreement, Vodafone Vierte Verwaltungs offers to acquire the shares
Catella’s president and chief executive Johan Ericsson has been appointed as the new head of corporate finance, one of the two operating segments in the company.
The role will be shared with a person who is to be recruited. The dual leadership structure will enable Catella to focus both on current operations and on business development.
Anders Palmgren will leave his position as head of corporate finance and, as a consequence, his position in the group management of Catella as of today.
As previously communicated Knut Pedersen will succeed Ericsson as president and CEO on 1 January 2014.
CapVest, a European mid-market private equity firm, has acquired Scandza, a Nordic consumer food and beverage business.
Jan Bodd and Stig Sunde, who established Scandza in 2007 and will continue to lead the business, have significantly increased their shareholding as part of the deal.
Scandza, which recorded a turnover of EUR236m (NOK1.8bn) in 2012, has created a fast moving consumer goods platform by taking advantage of consolidation opportunities in what continues to be a fragmented Nordic food and beverage market.
Scandza holds a portfolio of market leading brands in chilled foods, snacking and baked goods. Its portfolio includes
Luca Paolini (pictured), Chief Strategist at Pictet Asset Management, explains why markets will enter a new phase in 2014…
In our view, 2014 will see markets enter a distinct new phase, one in which central bank liquidity – for so long a hugely positive influence on investor sentiment – will have a weaker impact on asset class returns than economic growth. As this transition from a liquidity to growth-influenced market unfolds, world stocks are likely to deliver more muted returns in 2014 while bonds will in the main struggle to break into positive territory.
One certainty for 2014 is that
Special Reports
Featured
Events
12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
