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Sanne Group has recently moved to new offices in London, which will now be led by corporate and institutional services director, Martin Schnaier (pictured).
Schnaier has joined Sanne Group from Babson Capital where he was finance director with responsibility for the firm’s mezzanine and private equity business. He has over 10 years experience in the finance industry working with institutional funds, venture capital trusts, private equity and debt funds.
Sanne’s London office provides relationship management services to corporate and institutional customers and intermediaries, working with them to deliver tailored administration solutions across a multi-jurisdictional platform.
Schnaier says: “I am delighted
Vision Capital announces has successfully completed the debt refinancing of BrightHouse, a leading UK rent-to-own retailer, with over GBP100m of senior debt facilities.
The financing was provided by a consortium of Lloyds Banking Group, GE Capital and Ares Capital Europe and will be used for repayment of existing financing and working capital.
Alister Wormsley, Vision Capital’s Managing Partner, says: “We are pleased to have successfully completed the refinancing with three blue chip financial institutions. The refinancing is a reflection of BrightHouse’s successful track record, strong cash generation and ambitious growth plans. It will ensure that BrightHouse has the appropriate
In light of the current fiscal and monetary concerns that are gripping the minds of investors around the world, Institutional Asset Manager asked the heads of some of the world’s leading asset managers to share their thinking on portfolio management trends post-Lehman and beyond 2011 in concise fashion. Jim McDonald, Chief Investment Strategist, Northern Trust, responds:
Overview – Like other institutional investors, Northern Trust has focused intensely on the evolving financial crisis in Europe, the prospects for economic growth in the United States and the sustainability of the boom in emerging markets. The primary driver of our five-year outlook is
BlueMountain Capital Management (BlueMountain), a private investment firm specialising in the global credit markets with USD7 billion in assets under management, has purchased a majority equity stake in Navitas Lease Corporation (Navitas). This investment was made with funds managed by BlueMountain and will provide Navitas with additional capital to support its multi-year growth plan.
“Navitas possesses the talent and resources to become a dominant competitor in the equipment finance industry,” says Brad Schwartz, BlueMountain’s lead portfolio manager for asset-backed strategies. “Taking into account that this is a highly underserved market, Navitas has tremendous opportunities to serve the small business community’s
Four years after the meltdown of the US sub-prime mortgage market and the credit crunch, allocators and investors still face a market environment that stubbornly refuses to return to ‘normal’.
Do market players need to learn new rules for a permanently changed environment? Do traditional assumptions about risk and return, correlation and market behaviour no longer apply?
In this free webinar sponsored by PerTrac, Simon Gray, Managing Editor of Hedgeweek, will review the challenges and choices facing allocators in turbulent times. Register for one of two sessions by clicking below:
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Salorix, Inc. a social media marketing and analytics firm developing a new platform for social media campaign management, has secured USD3.5 million in Series A investment, co-led by Inventus Capital Partners and Nexus Venture Partners.
"Central to our development has been an unwavering commitment to provide global customers with best-in-class solutions tailored to digital marketing needs, focused on their social media initiatives and enabling them to respond to new market complexities," says Dr Santanu Bhattacharya, CEO of Salorix. "Investments from Inventus and Nexus, two leading firms with a history of promoting investments in pioneering technologies in emerging marketplaces, will enable
Neuberger Berman Group has raised approximately USD720 million for NB Crossroads 2010 Fund, a fund focused on investing in premier private equity funds and co-investments alongside premier funds. Since January 2010, Neuberger Berman has raised over USD1.5 billion in its private equity fund of funds platform.
The firm began investing its first private equity fund of funds in 1987, bringing cumulative total private equity commitments to more than USD12 billion. Neuberger Berman’s approximately 175 private equity professionals are based in New York, Dallas, London and Hong Kong.
“We see attractive investment opportunities in private equity in the coming years,
The Cambridge Associates LLC Australia Private Equity and Venture Capital Index (CA Australia Index) continues to outperform the S&P/ASX 300 Index over multiple time horizons.
The CA Australia Index, which measures private equity and venture capital returns in Australia, also outperforms other key asset benchmarks over a number of different time periods.
For the quarter ended 30 June 2011, the CA Australia Index had annualised returns of 8.59%, 2.42%, 4.23% and 7.81% over one, three, five and 10 years respectively.
The index’s quarterly return of 3.18% also compares favourably against minus 4.26% for the S&P/ASX 300 Index, 2.3% for the
Newly-launched AltResources is to provide private equity (PE) funds with accounting, tax, and compliance services.
The firm is led by founder and managing director John Wiencek, who was previously managing director and head of North American operations for Mourant Fund Services, a leading fund administrator that was acquired by State Street in 2010. The AltResources team includes highly knowledgeable individuals with experience in accounting, tax, law, finance and asset management.
"Managers of private equity funds want to focus on what they do best – finding investments and managing portfolios," says Wiencek. "Record-keeping, regulatory compliance and tax paperwork are not their
Collins Stewart, the US Securities Division of Collins Stewart Hawkpoint, and Morgan Joseph TriArtisan LLC, have formed a joint venture, CSMJ Capital Markets.
Within the US, CSMJ Capital Markets will enhance the capabilities of each firm to originate and execute domestic US public and private equity offerings and placements. To this end Collins Stewart LLC’s US equity sales and trading personnel will work with the investment and merchant bankers of Morgan Joseph TriArtisan.
"With the extensive distribution capabilities of Collins Stewart and the client base and investment banking expertise of Morgan Joseph TriArtisan, this joint venture will be one of
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