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CEPRES is offering a Risk Analysis & Rating Dashboard on its platform to support LPs in understanding the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on their portfolios.
CEPRES’ Health Check Rating System is based on the CEPRES Platform’s flexible analysis dashboarding system and can inform investors on whether their private market portfolio is in good position to face major challenges ahead. The Platform allows the rating of users’ portfolios according to a predictive methodology derived on the granular analysis of development pattern of more than 80,000 portfolio company investments during former crises and recovery phases, as well as CEPRES’ own economic
The coronavirus crisis and nationwide lockdown have given clarity on how to evaluate companies’ ability to tackle social issues, “crystallising” what the S in ESG stands for, according to Bas NieuweWeme, CEO of Aegon Asset Management.
The impact from coronavirus and the changes to the way people have had to both work and live means this has now come to the forefront, according to the investment manager.
“The lockdown has allowed a crystallisation of the real performance on social issues versus mere policies and positioning,” said NieuweWeme.
He continued: “We can now look at how companies have behaved
High Net Worth private investors are ready and willing to provide small and medium-sized British businesses (SMEs) with the financial support they will need as they recover from the impact of Covid-19, reveals research by Connection Capital, a specialist private client investment business.According to a survey among 233 Connection Capital clients with an estimated combined net worth of over GBP2 billion, nearly three-fifths (58 per cent) say they are interested in private equity as an investment strategy over the next 12 months, while almost a third (31 per cent) are interested in private debt.
Connection Capital says that previously successful
Funds4Food is aiming to raise cash to aid relief efforts for victims of Covid-19 with two weeks of virtual one-on-one meetings between alternative asset managers and leading allocators in what is being described as the world’s largest cap intro event.
Liverpool-based funding provider MSIF is looking to further support and expand its offering to SMEs across the North West impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. As an accredited lender of the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS), MSIF has, through its Merseyside Loan & Equity Fund (MLEF), made GBP1million of its own capital available to support businesses under the scheme with loans of up to GBP250,000. Having recently completed its first investments, further applications are now being welcomed with such support being in addition to MSIF’s flexible funding options for debt, equity and start-up finance.
In addition to this, MSIF and GC Business Finance can
IQ-EQ has acquired Blue River Partners (Blue River), a US-based provider of outsourced solutions to alternative asset managers. The acquisition of Blue River marks the Group’s latest strategic acquisition, the first in the US private equity and hedge fund services space.
The newly combined IQ-EQ US operation brings together a highly experienced team of 200 funds professionals servicing more than 500 clients across the US from its seven office locations: Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Austin, New York City, Chicago and San Francisco.
The transaction significantly strengthens IQ-EQ’s existing presence in the US, the largest and fastest growing fund administration and regulatory
Simon Tilley is a managing director at Stephens Europe and leads the European Financial Sponsors Group. He acts as a focal point for the firm’s interactions with European private equity firms and the wider financial sponsors community.
By Troy Pospisil, founder and CEO, InCloudCounsel – The Covid-19 pandemic has had massive economic impacts across the globe, though the ultimate effect on business remains to be seen. What will likely become clear in time, though, is that the pandemic will have a substantial negative impact on private markets that extends to almost every corner of the economy.
29Bison, a human capital management consultant for private equity and venture capital firms and their portfolio companies, has launched AlphaCalc, a business intelligence platform that enhances due diligence, portfolio-monitoring, and value-creation processes. In addition to standard metrics around top- and bottom-line performance, as well as key risk factors, the platform also provides measures and industry-specific benchmarks around the impact of human capital, creating actionable insights to improve productivity across the business enterprise.
“Amidst an uncertain economic environment, and as operating models evolve in a shelter-in-place world, the timely and actionable human capital analysis AlphaCalc offers is more important than ever,” says
Zedra Fund Services, the boutique and mid-tier alternative funds administration specialist, has seen little fall out or changes to business patterns during the eight week Covid-19 lockdown which has gripped the UK and all main global markets.All well run businesses have a continuity plan, but few organisations will have been prepared for the scope of the Covid-19 pandemic. Fund administrators have faced a range of challenges ranging from reporting continuity against the backdrop of significant market swings shredding valuations, to the service challenges presented by lockdown and the forced dispersal of front and back office staff worldwide.
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