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Hedge funds and private equity are both improving their transparency over ESG. However, while on the private equity side, ESG is more seen as an investment opportunity, complexities remain on the hedge fund side around issues of reporting and shorting, according to Cambridge Associates.
Trudi Boardman, Hedge Fund Specialist at Cambridge Associate said that many hedge funds are still in the earlier stages of introducing ESG policies and processes, and that “there’s still a long way to go.”
She commented: “The ESG area is still very much a work in progress on the hedge fund side. There are challenges in
DEALS
Info Edge Ventures has led a USD2 million seed round into Lumiq, an Indian data and analytics company that provides data-driven decision-making for financial enterprises.
The funding round also saw participation from Redstart Labs and angel investor Parampreet Bhasin. Lumiq plans to utilise the fresh capital in the company’s sales growth, improve its product offering, as well as expanding its global presence.
Lumiq is on a mission to make financial enterprises manage their data better, as it believes that most data pipelines of financial enterprises are broken. This results in an inefficient and suboptimal utilization of a vast pool
SPACs
The International Stock Exchange (TISE) has revised its Listing Rules to attract Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs).
PRIVATE MARKETS
German institutional and high-net-worth investors are increasingly turning their attention to the private markets space, with a specific focus on private equity and private debt.
DEALS
Breega, backer of Moneybox, and Connect Ventures, backer of Truelayer, have closed a GBP5m seed equity round into Keebo, a credit card approved by the FCA to use open banking data.
PODCAST
Private equity firm CVC plans to inject USD3.2 billion into Spain’s La Liga, which covers Spain’s top two soccer divisions, in exchange for nearly 11 per cent of its television rights over 50 years, a deal which is currently being contested by two of its heavyweights: Real Madrid CF and FC Barcelona.
RESEARCH
Global M&A activity saw a strong recovery in H1 2021, as dealmaking count and value are both set to reach or surpass the record highs of previous years, according to Pitchbook’s latest Global M&A report.
TECHNOLOGY
When it comes to private equity firms and digital transformation, there isn’t much Thomas Ballard, founder of Market Hill, hasn’t seen. Market Hill works alongside private equity firms to maximise portfolio companies’ future valuations, and as the company’s founder and chief commercial officer, he collaborates directly with private equity operating partners and portfolio company CEOs to uncover the unconsidered needs of firms within the space.
Since Ballard’s worked with some of the biggest tech companies around, as well as being involved with building the backbone infrastructure for the 2012 Olympics in London, Private Equity Wire sat down with the founder
ESG
Almost four out of five (75 per cent) of LPs expect sustainability to drive investment decisions over next five years, while 66 per cent of LPs see value creation as a leading driver of ESG, according to new research from Manulife on how private equity relates to sustainable investing.
The paper, called ‘Sustainable private equity and the new drivers of value creation’, also revealed that private equity firms are showing significant commitment to the UN’s Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) – including six of the world’s top ten PE firms having signed up to its six aspirational principles.
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