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As automation allows private equity firms to achieve scalability, the tightening of data governance processes behind the technology becomes indispensable. Further, best-in-class operating models are becoming more accessible to smaller organisations.
“As the industry grows and the inflow of capital increases, firms are increasingly looking to scale,” outlines Travis Broad, director, private markets at Lionpoint Group, “this leads them to identify areas of resistance around manual processes that consistently require more and more people to action.” Hence, the need for automation is elevated. There is also an abundance of new and exciting technologies that seek to automate operational areas of private equity
The last two years have been particularly challenging as the global insurance market went through a ‘hard market’, that is, a sustained period of constriction and correction. This environment, coupled with the uncertainty generated by the Covid-19 pandemic meant insurance brokers have had to ensure key parts of cover remain in play, hire even more quality associates and invest in innovative technology to support their clients further.
“We saw reductions in capacity, increases in premiums and deductibles, restrictions in coverage and limits of liability available to our clients,” details Gareth Abbott, senior vice president, Lockton Companies LLP. The firm’s tech
As private equity asset managers forge more strategic relationships with their institutional investor clients, their needs for data and timely reporting are becoming sharper and more essential. The advent of retail participation in the PE space will also herald new challenges.
The PE space has been growing faster than anyone could have predicted, with the industry witnessing record fundraising growth. This has led to a change in the dynamics of the market.
“Managers and investors have seen the investment opportunities available and, as a result, the market has been maturing. Some of the larger institutional investors have become co-investors and
Generation Investment Management, a pure-play sustainable investment manager with over $36 billion of assets under management, has launched the $1.7 billion Sustainable Solutions Fund IV.
The new fund continues the firm’s commitment to invest globally in companies and teams driving the sustainable future.
Sustainable Solutions Fund IV is Generation’s fourth and largest Growth Equity fund, enabling Generation to invest $50-$150 million as active minority investors in high-growth companies that are shifting industries toward sustainability and responsible innovation at scale. The firm’s prior Growth Equity funds have deployed over $2 billion since 2008, partnering with companies such as AlayaCare, Asana, Back
Behind the eye-watering valuations and growth projections, a wider spectrum of risk-return strategies is opening up in the digital infrastructure sector…
KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners’ (GIP) acquisition of one of the world’s largest data centre operators, CyrusOne, in March was notable not just for the size of the transaction at USD15 billion but also for how the two buyers used different risk strategies to close the investment.
Data centres have always featured some overlap between corporates, real estate and infrastructure funds but KKR’s use of both infrastructure and real estate equity along with GIP’s infrastructure funds proved how buyers
Kaizan, a Client Intelligence Platform building ‘Siri for Client Success teams’, has closed a $1.2 million pre-seed funding round led by Jigsaw.
This investment will advance Kaizan’s R&D into an innovative intelligent AI for Client Success teams to guide them on how to increase revenue and client happiness.
Early traction with customers, including Bidstack PLC, Fnatic and Scale Digital, and promising advancements in Kaizan’s R&D have led to early-stage VC Jigsaw leading an oversubscribed pre-seed round. With participation from angels from Entrepreneur First, Charlotte St Capital, Founders Factory, Silicon Roundabout Ventures, NICE, Ledger, IPONWEB, MIQ and Gtmhub.
The Maryland State Retirement & Pension System has made a new $1.6 billion allocation to 12 alternative investment managers managers, according to a report by Pensions & Investments.
Sagard NewGen has acquired a majority stake in Horizon Software – a speclialist in Market Making and Algo Trading Technology – alongside a management buy-out, to support expansion into new markets and strategic capabilities.
Sagard NewGen will take over Capza’s majority stake. During the past two years with Capza, Horizon has successfully developed a single cross asset platform for market making, agency trading and algo trading, alongside with portable and scalable trading services around pricing, trading, risk, and market connectivity.
With this new investment, Horizon will focus on expanding its Trading-as-a-Service offering – bringing together agency trading and
Mayfair Equity Partners (Mayfair), a dedicated consumer and technology investor with over £1 billion in assets under management, is backing the management buyout of Garolla, a UK-based, end-to-end provider of roller garage doors.
Mayfair will hold a majority stake in the business. Additional deal terms have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2017 by David Wilkinson and Graeme Pogue, Garolla began with a single franchisee supplying roller garage doors in Harrogate, UK. Today, it is the largest and fastest growing roller garage door business in the country.
Mayfair is partnering with Mark McAvoy, Managing Director, and his management team to
Yieldstreet, a digital alternative investment platform, has launched its Art Equity Fund IV, which is now accepting investments.
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