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Trident Fund Services has added the Geneva World Investor module to its existing implementation of Geneva. Trident Fund Services leverages the Geneva platform to provide integrated portfolio management and investor servicing across private equity, real estate and hedge fund clients.
"A robust, integrated technology platform underpins our ability to provide high-quality, tailored, cost-efficient fund administration services to our clients, whatever their specific requirements. We chose Geneva World Investor for its strong integration, automation, onshore and offshore investor level accounting, and the ability to deliver complex reporting to private equity and hedge fund clients," says Rick Gorter, Managing Director, Trident Fund
Ingenious Clean Energy, a division of UK based investment and advisory group Ingenious, has successfully closed its pioneering Ingenious Energy Efficiency EIS Fund, exceeding its GBP10m target fund raise.
The fund, which is the first of its kind in the UK, has been launched in collaboration with the Investment Advisors to the Fund, Sustainable Development Capital LLP. It will now begin deploying funds into companies which provide energy efficiency services in commercial and industrial properties.
The UK energy efficiency market presents a unique opportunity for investors as it continues to expand, driven by high and rising energy prices and concerns
Alter Domus has appointed Michael Ellul as Director of the firm’s office in Malta.
The office in Malta, which was established in 2010, offers corporate management support to holding and financing companies of investment firms, multinationals, and private investors. Solutions range from fund administration services to company management. Malta’s importance as a fund domicile of choice and a member of the EU made it a logical location in the expansion of Alter Domus global network.
Michael Ellul, who joins an existing team of experienced professionals in Malta, has significant local experience in banking and in trust and company formation. In
Following its official launch on 12 March 12, 2012, the European Angels Fund (EAF) has now commenced operation in Germany, with Business Angel Friedrich Georg Hoepfner, making the first investment into Fotografen-Service GmbH (www.fotograf.de), a provider of a software-as-a-service tool to support professional photographers throughout their entire business cycle from client acquisition and sales to business monitoring.
Matthias Ummenhofer, Head of Venture Capital at the European Investment Fund, says: “It is exciting to see the European Angels Fund become operational so quickly after its launch. In view of the healthy pipeline, we look forward to teaming up with other Business
A new report out today from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation describes how most institutional investors, including larger state pension funds, endowments and foundations, may be shortchanged by their investments in venture capital funds.
Over the past decade, public stock markets have outperformed the average venture capital fund and for 15 years, VC funds have failed to return to investors the significant amounts of cash invested, despite high-profile successes, including Google, Groupon and LinkedIn.
The report, "We Have Met the Enemy … And He is Us," is based on a comprehensive analysis of the Kauffman Foundation’s more than 20 years
Silverfleet Capital’s Buy & Build Monitor for Q1 2012, shows a dramatic fall in Buy & Build activity in Europe, with volume failing by around a third from the level seen in Q3 and Q4 of 2011, the lowest of any quarter since mid-2009.
The average disclosed value of add-ons fell by 38% to GBP21 million down from an already very modest GBP34 million in Q4 2011 and GBP70 million in Q3 2011. The average disclosed value per add-on was the lowest of any quarter in the last four years.
The number of add-ons undertaken in Southern Europe has been
Business Growth Fund (BGF) and NVM Private Equity (NVM) have committed GBP10m of growth capital to acquisitive Northern pub chain, Wear Inns.
BGF has invested GBP8m and NVM has invested a further GBP2m in the business, which it has backed since start-up in 2006. BGF will take a minority stake in the business and will join the existing board.
Founded in 2006 by local entrepreneurs John Weir (CEO) and John Sands (Chairman), Wear Inns focuses on the acquisition and management of freehold community pubs across the North East and Yorkshire. The estate currently comprises 15 sites, including The Townhouse
AXA Private Equity, a European diversified private equity firm, will arrange a EUR22 million mezzanine tranche alongside Euromezzanine to support the acquisition of Stokomani by Sagard, the French investment fund.
Stokomani is being acquired by Sagard from Advent International, a leading global buyout firm. The transaction is expected to complete in June.
Stokomani is a leading French discount retailer of high-end brands. Throughout its network of 37 stores, Stokomani offers a wide range of branded goods at attractive prices, from clothing, sportswear, beauty and healthcare, toys and homeware. This unique concept, developed by CEO Jean-Jacques Namani, has seen the company
The California State Teachers’ Retirement Board, the governing body of CalSTRS, has selected Pension Consulting Alliance as the private equity consultant to its Investment Committee for the next five years.
PCA will provide independent assessments of the private equity portfolio’s performance.
PCA will also prepare the semi-annual performance reports and review the annual business plans. The firm will review, comment and make independent recommendations on investment strategies, policies and practices of the private equity program. PCA will also provide independent, objective analysis of proposed investments.
PCA is an employee-owned Portland, Ore. firm founded in 1988 and chartered in Delaware. The
The Aureos Southern Africa Fund LLC (ASAF) has sold its stake in South African brick and clinker aggregate manufacturing group, SA Block (Pty) Ltd.
SA Block manufactures bricks and clinker aggregate from clinker, the ash by-product produced when coal is burnt for electricity, thereby recycling what would otherwise be environmental waste. The clinker supplied by SA Block has unique advantages to manufacturers of concrete products.
ASAF is managed by Aureos Southern Africa Managers Ltd, a subsidiary of Aureos Capital Limited, a leading private equity fund management company specialising in investing in small and mid-cap companies in global growth markets.
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