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Part 3 – Regulatory reporting
For any Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM), the main factors that define the success of their business will be the amount of capital they are able to raise and the performance of the funds that they manage.
The average number of capital calls made by private capital funds dropped to 1.9 last year, a 10-year low and down from 4.6 in 2015, according to proprietary research from Investec.
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Part 2 – Tax Considerations
For any Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM), the main factors that define the success of their business will be the amount of capital they are able to raise and the performance of the funds that they manage.
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Part 1 – Choosing the right structure: For any Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM), the main factors that define the success of their business will be the amount of capital they are able to raise and the performance of the funds that they manage.
After a record-breaking 2021 with staggering valuations and a total of 84 new European tech unicorns, the number of new venture capital investors in Europe has simultaneously decreased by almost half.
With 61 new investors in 2021, including ten headquartered in the United Kingdom, the total number of European investors thus rose to 817 at the end of the previous year.
A study by international tech M&A advisor i5invest, venture builder i5growth, and the Entrepreneurship Center of the Vienna University of Economics and Business shows that British investors have in excess of €468 billion in assets under management and a
Energy transition and digital infrastructure strategies have attracted new LPs into the asset class. The majority now plan to increase their allocations as sustainable investment becomes the norm…
Around the world, public sector infrastructure spend is in focus. The trillions of dollars promised will need to leverage private capital but the projects themselves could be far in the distance…
Following the close of its fourth flagship infrastructure fund, and with strategies targeting Asia and renewables, Luke Taylor (pictured) at Stonepeak explains what is driving interest…
A buoyant private equity market has powered the growth of Addleshaw Goddard’s transactional practice, as the focus on ESG came further to the fore and cross-border deal activity also experienced significant uplift.
“ESG firmly took centre stage in 2021. This has been driven by the increased “mainstreaming” of impact funds and B corp certified GPs,” says Jan Gruter, partner in AG’s Investment Management group, “The increased focus on ESG has come from a number of angles: LPs, the workforce in GPs pushing for change and of course the regulators with a myriad of ESG related regulatory changes coming online, most notably the EU
Fund managers’ ever-evolving regulatory and contractual obligations generate complex compliance requirements that can be simplified by technology focused on contract automation and intelligence.
“In recent years, we saw increased demand from our asset management clients for a technology tool that would make compliance with fund documentation simpler,” says Bridget Deiters, senior managing director & international lead at Ontra. “In March 2021, we launched Insight, a purpose-built software solution for fund managers, to address that demand and to help our customers track and manage their complex regulatory and contractual compliance obligations.”
Deiters also notes that compliance isn’t just a regulatory requirement
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