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As part of its efforts to strengthen its relationship with the Chinese fund industry, the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) has added a section in Chinese (Mandarin) to its website.
The section contains important basic information about the Luxembourg investment fund sector and regulation, and how Luxembourg can support Chinese asset managers develop globally.
Four accompanying brochures are also available in Chinese on the following topics:
• The benefits of Luxembourg as a domicile for investment funds;
• How to set up a fund in Luxembourg;
• How to re-domicile a fund in Luxembourg; and
Dealogic has completed the acquisition of Junction RDS (JRDS).
Founded in 2005, JRDS provides ownership analysis of UK listed companies and combines specialist research by skilled staff with proprietary analytical software.
The JRDS acquisition further enhances the Dealogic product set by providing clients with greater transparency into ownership of UK equities.
Greg Young, co-head of institutional client management at Dealogic, says: "Combining JRDS’ unique content with our already extensive coverage of global investor holdings, contacts and profiles will provide our clients with an even greater level of insight into investor behaviour globally and is a valuable
Two former directors, Howard Jenkins and Trevor Tanner, have returned to Simbec backed by the new Wales Life Sciences Investment Fund managed by Arthurian.
This new team has acquired the company from its former parent the Canadian Altasciences Group, to make it once more a totally independent Welsh company.
This is the initial investment for Wales’ first-ever dedicated Life Sciences Fund whose launch was announced by Professor Sir Chris Evans at BioWales in March. It marks a momentous stage in Simbec’s history spanning almost four decades. Merthyr Tydfil-based Simbec Research employs around 90 staff.
With the backing
Alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group has added a six-person international energy investment team to its growing energy platform, expanding the firm’s ability to invest in a full range of energy assets around the world.
Marcel van Poecke, an energy investor, will lead the effort, collaborating with Carlyle’s established investment teams. Van Poecke and the international energy team begin their duties in early May.
Carlyle chairman Daniel A D’Aniello (pictured) says: “Marcel and his team expand and complement our broad-based energy investment offering. Through organic growth and strategic partnerships we have created an energy platform that can invest
Five packaging companies in North America and Europe intend to combine to operate as one firm under the banner of Exopack Holdings Sarl, a new Luxembourg company.
The combined business will have 63 plants, 8,650 employees and aggregate revenues of more than USD2.5bn, making it the sixth-largest plastics packaging company in the world.
Joining Exopack, a US-based producer of flexible paper and plastic packaging and advanced coatings, will be four companies based in Europe – Britton Group, a flexible plastic packaging manufacturer; PACCOR, the second-largest rigid plastic packaging company in Europe; Kobusch, a producer of tailor-made flexible and
Management consulting firm AT Kearney has appointed Robert Haas to lead the firm’s private equity practice in the Americas.
Under Haas’s (pictured) leadership, AT Kearney will leverage its capabilities in corporate strategy, revenue growth and operational improvement to help private equity funds make investments, generate profit growth in their portfolios, and deliver superior returns to their investors.
Daniel Mahler, lead partner for the Americas, says: "Bob is uniquely qualified for this role based on his vast experience driving profit growth for companies in a wide variety of industries, as well his expertise in private equity and corporate M&A."
Private equity firm HIG Capital has completed the acquisition of Caraustar Industries, a provider of recycled paperboard and related products. Caraustar was majority owned by private investment funds managed by Wayzata Investment Partners.
Headquartered in Austell, Georgia, Caraustar is one of North America’s largest integrated manufacturers and converters of 100 per cent recycled paperboard and converted paperboard products. Caraustar serves end-use markets in tube and core, folding carton, gypsum facing paper and specialty paperboard products. Caraustar is also one of the largest collectors and processors of recovered fibre in the US. The company services its diversified customer base through a large
Brothers Edmund and Danny Truell have completed a substantial growth capital investment in Imagine Publishing to support the next phase of the multimedia publisher’s expansion.
Imagine Publishing is one of the UK’s fastest-growing multimedia content publishers. Formed in May 2005, it now publishes 19 regular print magazines, 50 digital apps, more than 250 bookazines, 29 websites and thousands of articles every month in the technology, videogames, photography and knowledge/science markets.
An Imagine magazine is purchased every ten seconds, and the Company this month won a Media Pioneer award at the Specialist Media Show for the “Content is King” digital strategy
JTC Group and Kensington Trust Group (KTG) have formed a strategic alliance that was agreed in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in March.
The alliance creates a global offering of trust, fiduciary and corporate services and fund administration.
Recently established, with offices in Malaysia, Singapore, Labuan and Indonesia, KTG has attracted some of the most experienced and respected leaders in the industry.
Raymond Wong, regional managing director of KTG, says: “The alliance enables KTG to serve the demanding needs of our international clients, in conjunction with an organisation that shares our core values.”
Nigel Le Quesne (pictured), JTC
Nexus Group, a provider of private equity in Peru, has held the final closing of its second institutional fund, NG Capital Partners II.
NG reached the fund’s hard cap of USD600m, exceeding its USD500m fundraising target.
The fund will invest primarily in Peru with the flexibility to execute investments in the Andean region.
NG has attracted commitments from international pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, corporations, fund of funds, and family offices from across the globe. Of the capital raised, approximately 26 per cent was committed from local and regional investors, 37 per cent from North America, 21
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