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Peter Higgins, Partner and Senior Portfolio Manager of the BlueBay High Income Loan fund, highlights why now is a good time to protect against rising rates, and outlines BlueBay’s views on how the loans asset class is set to perform in the current macro-economic environment…
Since the global financial crisis we have been in a period of unprecedented low interest rates. However, fixed income markets were poorly prepared for US Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairman, Ben Bernanke’s, late-May announcement that the Fed could start tapering quantitative easing. Yields on 10-year US Treasuries rose 115 basis points (bps) from May to August
Jared A Hershberg has joined Winston & Straw’s private equity practice as a partner in New York.
Winston’s national private equity practice provides strategic advice and legal counsel to middle-market private equity funds, hedge funds, family offices, real estate funds, alternative asset managers, portfolio companies, and institutional investors.
Hershberg has been a key player in both domestic and global deals in areas where our corporate and private equity reach is expanding.
Hershberg’s practice focuses on private equity investments, private investment funds, and mergers and acquisitions. He advises private equity and other investment funds, limited partners and public and
Wealthcare Capital Management is to be acquired by NewSpring Holdings, a private equity investment company located in Radnor, Pennsylvania.
Wealthcare, a provider of goals-based wealth management technology and advisory services, will run as a standalone company out of its existing headquarters in Richmond, Virginia.
In its partnership with NewSpring, Wealthcare will retain its core group of employees dedicated to advisor relations, its operating and service structure, and its goals-based financial planning and wealth management services for advisors and their clients.
Founded in 1999, Wealthcare operates its technology licensing business serving the clients of over 30,000 advisors who are
Private equity investor Bunker Hill Capital has acquired Hubbardton Forge, a Vermont-based designer and manufacturer of branded hand-forged premium lighting fixtures.
Hubbardton Forge focuses on the premium segment of the lighting fixture industry with products sold in the US and internationally through a network of over 1,300 accounts serving the residential and commercial markets.
“The management team and work force at Hubbardton Forge are second to none. We were impressed with the quality and pride that is forged into each fixture,” says Rufus Clark, managing partner of Bunker Hill Capital. “We believe that our investment represents a great opportunity
Private equity firm Liberty Hall Capital Partners has acquired Precise Machining & Manufacturing, a supplier of highly engineered machined parts, kits and assemblies, and processing services to the global aerospace industry.
Precise will serve as the foundational asset of Accurus Aerospace Corporation, which has been formed by Liberty Hall to become a fully integrated, highly diversified Tier II aerostructures supplier through a combination of strategic investments and additional strategic acquisitions.
Liberty Hall's investment partners in the transaction are Hamilton Lane and other institutional investors. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
"As a private equity firm focused exclusively
Private equity firm Mill City Capital has completed the “going private” acquisition of Bonnett’s Energy Corp, an oil field services company based in Alberta, Canada.
Bonnett's Energy Corp, founded in 1972, serves customers throughout the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, operating a modern fleet of equipment with 11 locations throughout Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan.
Bonnett’s offers its customers critical well services including wireline, production testing, fishing, swabbing and well stimulation services. Bonnett’s existing management team, led by Murray Toews, chief executive officer, and Troy Tews, chief operating officer, will continue under Mill City’s ownership.
“Bonnett’s is a
LA-based private equity firm Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP) has partnered with management to acquire Asheville, North Carolina-based Genova Diagnostics.
Genova, founded in 1986, is a specialty clinical laboratory that has pioneered a unique, systems-based approach to testing that supports the personalised diagnosis, treatment and prevention of chronic disease.
The company offers more than 125 specialised diagnostic assessments that cover digestive, metabolic, immunology, endocrinology and other physiological areas. It currently serves more than 10,000 primary care physicians, specialists and other healthcare providers.
Genova is the second investment from Levine Leichtman Capital Partners V.
Lauren Leichtman, co-founder and
Boutique institutional asset manager Unigestion has invested in the Armstrong South East Asia Clean Energy Fund which invests in small scale renewable energy and resource efficiency projects in South East Asia.
The investment, through the Unigestion-Ethos Environmental Sustainability Fund, will provide investors with exposure to opportunities in the clean energy sector in South East Asia’s emerging markets.
This is the seventh investment made by the Unigestion-Ethos Environmental Sustainability Fund, and comes shortly after the fund received its share of proceeds from the initial public offering of SolarCity, a US provider of clean energy services, by the underlying fund, Silver
CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution, has appointed Mark Eckstein as director, environmental and social responsibility.
Eckstein will oversee a team that seeks to improve environmental and social standards across CDC’s portfolio of investments.
CDC’s more than 1,200 investments span 80 countries and include fund investments, debt investments and direct equity investments.
Most recently Eckstein was managing director of World Wildlife Fund US’s sustainable finance programme, and has spent much of his career focusing on the role that financial institutions can play in enabling more responsible and sustainable development. His 25-year career includes senior roles at the
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a Discussion Paper setting out its initial views on the implementing measures it will have to develop for the new Market Abuse Regulation (MAR).
MAR aims to enhance market integrity and investor protection. It will achieve this by updating and strengthening the existing market abuse framework, by extending its scope to new markets and trading strategies, and by introducing new requirements.
The Discussion Paper presents positions and regulatory options on those issues where ESMA will have to develop MAR implementing measures, likely to include regulatory technical standards, delegated acts and
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