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SURVEY
UK dealmakers are equally convinced that the biggest threats to completing deals in the next 12 months will be issues stemming from the pandemic and climate change.
RESEARCH
A new report has revealed a GBP97 billion investment gap to secure key nature-related outcomes in the UK – such as biodiversity protection and restoration – to be between GBP44 billion and GBP97 billion over the next 10 years.
RESEARCH
UK M&A activity slowed in September after a period of increasingly intensive takeover activity between April and August, according to new data release by Peel Hunt.
DEALS
An investment group led by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), and also comprising PCP Capital Partners and RB Sports & Media, has completed the acquisition of 100 per cent of Newcastle United Limited and Newcastle United Football Club Limited (Newcastle United) from St James Holdings Limited.
FUNDRAISING
Churchill Asset Management (Churchill) has closed two new funds totalling approximately USD1.5 billion of committed capital.
RESEARCH
An overwhelming majority (93 per cent) of private equity fund managers expect to make an investment in the energy sector over the coming five years as they seek to capitalise on the post-pandemic rebound in global demand for power and government-backed stimulus programmes.
SPECIAL REPORT
By Katey Bogue, Head of Private Fund Solutions, Nasdaq Private Fund Solutions – As the size and importance of private fund portfolios continue to scale rapidly for LPs, so too do the complexities of raising and reporting for GPs. There are increasing volumes of portfolio data to harness, more demands from investors to address, and more operational risks to navigate.
SPECIAL REPORT
It’s a golden age for private equity firms, amid soaring valuations and a frenzy of takeover deals over the past year.
That same pace of growth and success is also acting as a powerful agent of change for the industry in how it views and uses technology.
For Rich Itri, SVP, Professional Service, at ECI, a provider of managed IT services, cybersecurity and business transformation solutions, it’s a trend that is long overdue.
While other areas of financial services have eagerly adopted new systems to keep pace with their competitors, private equity firms have traditionally taken a different approach.
“It’s
SPECIAL REPORT
By Robin Pagnamenta – They are used to big deals, quick turnarounds – and bumper pay days. But private equity executives have, in the past, sometimes been slower to embrace something else: cutting edge technology which rules the roost in many other areas of the financial services industry.
EQUALITY
By Sushma Kaushik, Partner at Aavishkaar Capital – Globally, Gender Lens Investing (or GLI) is gaining interest as more investors and financial institutions are adopting this as part of their investment strategy. Gender Lens Investing is very simply, an investment strategy that factors in gender analysis to advance equality and redress the gender imbalance within businesses.
Of 7.87 billion people in the world, ~50 per cent are women, yet their contribution to the economy is low, especially in emerging economies. In India women form 24 per cent of the work force and contribute a mere 18 per cent to the
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