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By Joanna Kirby, Managing Director, Time Partners – Private equity relies heavily on manager skill (alpha) with a large divergence between the strongest and weakest performers in a cohort. Studies have shown that it is possible for some investors to effectively navigate this disparate market and consistently add value, through careful fund selection. Robust due diligence processes, both investment and operational, are a critical part of successful fund/manager selection, but how has this changed during the pandemic?
The most obvious impact is from travel restrictions preventing on-site, in-person due diligence meetings. Investors are aware that reviewing track records and strategy
A new report released by BGF and academic Sir Anthony Seldon is calling for urgent action to recapitalise 21,000 businesses – the UK’s growth economy companies.
PAG, one of the world’s largest Asia-focused investment groups, has chosen Broadridge as a cloud-based portfolio management technology provider. The enhancement will support PAG’s capabilities for its private debt operations.
Industry organisation Black Women in Asset Management (BWAM) has written an open letter to the asset management industry calling on investment firms to promote racial equity.
BWAM’s letter encourages senior leaders to set out actions which are aimed at leading to progress and give black women a greater voice in shaping investment decisions, by urging the investment community to go beyond the earlier solidarity statements issued during this year’s global reckoning on racism.
“Continued incidents of police brutality have sparked a global awakening for many of our colleagues in the industry. This summer you saw many firms issuing solidarity statements
Apex Group Ltd (Apex), a global financial services provider, has been appointed to provide fund administration and corporate services to LCP Fund II. Incorporated in 2015, Lorax Capital Partners (LCP) is an Egypt focused private equity firm and over the course of the last five years, LCP has supported the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund (EAEF) in deploying cUSD175 million across five companies.
This announcement follows the news earlier this month, that LCP has secured commitments from five LPs, totalling USD142 million for the first close of LCP Fund II. With a target size of USD250 million, the new fund plans
iCapital Network, which provides financial advisers and their clients with access to private investsment, has added two accomplished leaders with expertise in supporting the global high-net-worth (HNW) investing community to its team.Read the full story at Wealth Adviser…
Early-stage Israeli proptech investor BuiltUp Ventures has invested in Trusstor and StructShare, two Israeli construction tech (contech) startups.
Other proptech companies BuiltUp Ventures has invested in over the last two years include data analytics tool MyTower, asset tokenisation platform SolidBlock, virtual marketing company Augmind, AI-based platform Innovesta, and Everflow.
“With Covid-19 continuing to impact the real estate market, technology solutions are becoming more essential to building owners, developers, and managers than ever before,” said Oded Eliashiv, principal and founding managing partner of BuiltUp Ventures.
BuiltUp Ventures is a Tel Aviv- and New York-based venture capital firm, with a focus on
Bixin Ventures has launched a USD100 million proprietary capital fund to support the global blockchain ecosystem and infrastructure necessary for the future of open finance through a permissionless and decentralised network.Bixin Ventures participated as co-lead investor in a strategic round for O(1) Labs, the team incubating Mina Protocol, contributing USD2 million to the raise, and has invested in projects including Microbit, xDai, Algorand, Nervos, Arweave, Conflux, Certik, and Marlin.
Earlier in 2020, Bixin Ventures announced a USD66 million proprietary fund of funds enabling hedge funds and liquidity providers to strengthen the global liquidity framework in bitcoin markets, with qualifying fund
British Patient Capital has made a USD35 million commitment to The Evolution Technology Fund II. The Fund is expected to achieve a targeted USD250 million final close in the coming months and is already investing in growing cybersecurity and enterprise software companies.
Evolution Equity Partners has been investing in cybersecurity companies over the past 20 years, building global leaders over several economic cycles, including to IPO. Their strategy targets companies that are making use of big-data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and SaaS.
Fund II portfolio companies include Quantexa, a London based big data intelligence and risk analysis firm where Evolution
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