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Fortigent, a provider of high-net-worth solutions and consulting services, has formed a partnership with Central Park Group, an independent investment advisory firm that delivers private client and smaller institutional investors access to institutional hedge fund, private equity, real estate and fund of funds talent.
This new partnership provides investment advisers and financial institutions served by Fortigent with significantly expanded access to an industry leading platform of institutional hedge funds, private equity, real estate and funds of funds enhanced with research, due diligence and asset allocation guidance.
Fortigent is a wholly-owned subsidiary of LPL Financial Holdings, the parent company of LPL
Fircroft Engineering Services, a provider of technical recruitment services backed by Equistone Partners Europe, has strengthened its board with the appointment of Philip Gore-Randall as a non-executive director.
Gore-Randall (pictured) brings almost 40 years of international experience to the board. He started his career at professional services firm Andersen, working his way up to UK managing partner, before becoming global chief operating officer at Andersen Worldwide in 2001.
He has previously held positions at the UK arm of insurance broker Aon, leading a major restructuring of the business, and recently took on the roles of senior adviser to Middle
Private equity real estate manager BPG Properties has changed its name to Equus Capital Partners.
The firm’s new name, Equus, is derived from the Latin word for “horse” and was chosen because the animal symbolises strength, agility, dependability and hard work.
There will be no other changes in the firm’s operations, including its value-add investment funds, as a result of the firm’s new name.
Equus Capital Partners is ranked as a Top Consistent Performing Real Estate Fund Manager by Preqin, a source of data and intelligence.
“Our new name reflects and celebrates the diligent hard work that has resulted in
The ALPS | Red Rocks Listed Private Equity Fund has surpassed USD200m in assets.
“Over the past decade, private equity has significantly outperformed traditional benchmarks, such as the S&P 500 and MSCI World Index,” says Adam Goldman, co-portfolio manager of the ALPS | Red Rocks Listed Private Equity fund. “We continue to focus our efforts on delivering a diversified portfolio of institutional-quality private equity managers in the world to our investors.”
“Alternative assets are becoming mainstream,” says Corey Dillon of ALPS. “While institutions, endowments and pension funds have used alternative investments such as private equity to help diversify their portfolios
Grail Advisory Partners, a specialist M&A advisory boutique with offices in New York and Geneva, has changed its name to PL Advisors.
The new branding further emphasises the firm’s exclusive focus on strategic advice for financial services firms and distinguishes it from Grail Partners, a merchant bank focused on private equity investing in the financial services industry.
Within the financial services sector, PL Advisors focuses on the global investment and wealth management industry and other high-growth, high-margin sub-sectors, including financial technology, brokerage and investment services.
Colette R Taylor and Domonkos L Koltai, the firm’s partners and co-founders, worked together at
The share price of companies undertaking recent IPOs on London’s Main Market in the past two years have outperformed the FTSE100 overall, according to research from Deloitte, the business advisory firm.
Deloitte’s IPO Barometer shows the share price of 10 Main Market trading company IPOs that occurred in 2011 and 2012 rose on average by 19.2 per cent above their listing price by the end of January 2013. The FTSE100 rose by 8.8 per cent over the same period.
A GBP1,000 investment in each of the 10 IPOs at the time of their listing would have been worth GBP11,920.
Infrastructure investment firm Alinda Capital Partners has appointed Alex Black as a partner with responsibility for the implementation of operational improvements for the firm’s portfolio companies.
Black joined Alinda in 2008 to lead portfolio management and, prior to this announcement, he was a managing director in the firm.
He has over 20 years of operational improvement experience. He has served as chief executive, chief financial officer and head of operations at a variety of companies and as a consultant in operational improvement for portfolio companies. He is an expert in developing strategic alternatives and in implementing organisational change.
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Panattoni Europe has disposed of two portfolios of logistics assets located in Poland, totalling 402,000 sq m of space, to affiliates of LogiCor, the pan-European logistics platform established by real estate funds managed by affiliates of The Blackstone Group.
The first transaction closed in October 2012 and consisted of four projects located in Poland’s key logistics markets, totalling 218,000 sq m of space. The projects were previously held by a joint-venture between Panattoni and another investor. Bank Pekao SA provided the debt financing for the acquisition as sole lender.
The second transaction closed in December 2012, and consisted of
Lee Manzi fund manager, Jupiter Fixed Interest and Multi Asset Team on the attractions of convertible bonds in the current environment…
Investors have a dilemma. On the one hand, major parts of the global economy are on the verge of recession with investors seemingly totally unconcerned, while on the other we have unprecedented levels of monetary and fiscal intervention.
Intervention has clearly been winning the day, squeezing investors into riskier assets through “financial repression” (measures taken by central banks to push down government bond yields thereby making them less attractive). This disconnect cannot continue forever. A return to economic growth
Silicon Valley Bank, financial partner to the technology, life science, cleantech, private equity and venture capital industries, has appointed Andrew Hunter as relationship manager with its UK branch to spearhead its new business efforts in Ireland.
Hunter currently works within Silicon Valley Bank’s accelerator and growth group based in London, managing a varied portfolio of clients and overseeing specialised financial services for venture backed and growth technology businesses.
In June 2012, Silicon Valley Bank announced plans to lend USD100m to support Ireland’s technology innovation sector in collaboration with the National Pensions Reserve Fund over the next five years.
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