Solutions
Diligend, a cloud-based, digital due diligence software platform for the investment management industry, has rebranded as Dasseti. The rebrand comes alongside the successful close of the firm’s Series A Financing led by Nasdaq Ventures.
Technology and data are playing a pivotal role in private markets, offering market participants benefits around efficiency, transparency, and smarter investment decision-making processes. Jeff Williams, Chief Strategy Officer at Altvia, shares his thoughts following the Private Equity Wire US Leadership Summit 2022…
Abacus Group, a provider of hosted IT services and solutions to alternative investment firms, has acquired two boutique cybersecurity consulting companies, Gotham Security and its parent company, GoVanguard, which will now be known as Gotham Security, and will operate as an independent subsidiary of Abacus Group.
Abacus says the deal will additional cybersecurity consulting expertise to the group’s existing services portfolio, including a comprehensive set of information security capabilities to provide clients with real-world, actionable insight, including penetration testing, red teaming, tabletop exercises, risk and compliance gap assessments, and threat hunting services.
Gotham Security’s dedicated leadership team will remain
PwC’s UK Deals Insights and Analytics team has chosen Doorda Data Products to augment its analytics capabilities for hedge fund, private equity, and corporate clients. Doorda researches, consolidates, links and updates open data from hundreds of publishers into a cloud data platform.
By incorporating data from Doorda, PwC says its UK Deals Insights and Analytics team can focus on the analytics work that is critical when executing deals.
PwC says the team is also looking to capitalise on features unique to the Doorda Data Platform; historical data not kept by data publishers, data specifically harvested by Doorda using Freedom of Information
The private equity industry is shifting its focus from deal-making to value creation, driven by the persistent uncertainty across financial markets and global macroeconomics. As a result, general partners will need to work to maximize the value of their existing investments through a number of key strategies.
Investors are demonstrating a keen appetite for alternative investments. However, they are simultaneously showing a need for a certain level of liquidity. This is leading to a growing demand for semi-opened-ended alternative funds being launched in European fund domiciles.
Investment managers have seen their regulatory and compliance burden inch upwards for years. The use of management companies in jurisdictions like Luxembourg has sought to ease this load. Investment managers are welcoming the additional support provided by a third-party ManCo, allowing them to concentrate on their core capabilities of managing money.
With the increasing popularity of alternative investments, in particular in the areas of private equity, private debt and real estate, we have witnessed that there is more demand in realising such investments via Luxembourg alternative investment fund structures (the “AIFs”) by international eligible investors. In the EU, AIFs were introduced by the Alternative Investment Fund Manager Directive (Directive 2011/61/EU, the “AIFM Directive”), which regulates managers of funds other than those under the Undertakings for Collective Investments in Transferable Securities Directive (Directive 2009/65/EC).
The alternative investment industry is developing new ways of sharing data across the whole value chain – from portfolio companies and holdings to funds and investors – and from asset servicers to asset managers and asset owners. Luxembourg, as a fund domicile, has been building its niche of expertise in this space and evolving to better serve the whole eco-system as the appeal of particular asset classes continues to grow.
Investors are calling for greater visibility into their portfolios, as well as more control, fuelled by political and economic instability, and volatile markets. Due diligence is of the highest priority as investors seek to mitigate risk and identify stable and reliable general partners (GPs) to work with.
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12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
