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The 2022 Alternative Investment Allocator Survey, conducted by law firm Seward & Kissel LLP, found that 41% of participants anticipated that their firms would increase allocations to digital assets in 2022, more than triple the number from last year’s survey.
North East financial advisory firm, Lowes Financial Management, has strengthened its leadership team with the appointment of Andy Gardiner as its first associate director.
Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), the largest stock exchange in Africa, has launched a new equity market data analytics platform in collaboration with big xyt, a provider of smart data and analytics solutions to the global trading and investment community.
The platform is an innovative new information service that will leverage big xyt’s Liquidity Cockpit for security analytics.
Akselos – leader in physics-based digital twins – has closed a $16.5 million funding round, with participation from AT Capital Group, Future Energy Ventures, Japan Energy Fund and Shell Ventures.
With the latest investment round, Akselos will acquire an investor base to support the company’s ongoing global growth, enabling it to scale both its team and solutions to optimise the energy industry’s existing infrastructure and accelerate large scale deployment of renewable energy.
This is a crucial step toward the company’s aim of providing technology to enable the energy transition in line with Akselos’ commitment to the IEA Net Zero 2050
New data analysis from Intertrust (Intertrust Group) and in partnership with data analytics company Convergence, reveals that assets in private credit funds now total $1.6 trillion, a rise of 53% over the past five years.
Intertrust Group’s new report, ‘The accelerated growth of private capital: navigating its complexity and operational growing pains’ identified 3,967 private credit funds at the end of March 2022 – a 56% increase since 2017.
The report highlights that, thanks to its rapid growth, the simplest form of private credit – direct lending – is already quite a mature market.
According to the report,
Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) today announced the first close of the Allianz Asia Pacific Secured Lending Fund (AAPSL) at $476 million (c €450 million).
The AAPSL is AllianzGI’s first Asia Pacific private credit fund that allows institutional investors to invest alongside Allianz. The investment focus is on growing businesses with a sound market position looking to capitalise on rising underlying fundamental demand in Asia.
The fund is expected to hold its final closing by the end of this year, with a target fund size amounted to $700 million (c €650 million).
The African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA) has released the second of its special report series exploring the ‘Currency Risk Management Practices in African Private Equity and Venture Capital’, alongside The Currency Exchange Fund (TCX) and MFX Solutions.
ECI Partners has completed the sale of Imagesound to Livingbridge, generating a 2.6x return.
City Hive, the think tank and advocacy group, has launched ACT, a standard of corporate culture for investment companies, chaired by City Hive’s CEO Bev Shah, and Chief Strategist Mandy Kirby.
ACT, standing for ‘Action, Challenge, and Transparency’, is a standard of corporate culture designed to help investment companies demonstrate movement towards more diverse, equitable and inclusive firms. ACT enables companies to show alignment between external and internal values; between beliefs and behaviours.
There are 15 founding signatories to ACT, including Schroders, Lombard Odier Investment Management, M&G, Aviva Investors, Mirabaud Investments, AssetCo, Federated Hermes, WHEB, BlueBay Asset Management, Radiant ESG,
Apex Group Ltd (Apex), a global financial services provider, has extended its longstanding relationship with Aizawa Asset Management (AAM) to provide services to their new Cayman fund, Ariake Secondary Fund III LP (ASF-III).
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