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By George Ralph (pictured), RFA – 2017 is as good a time as any to be starting a new alternative investment firm, certainly better than it would have been a decade ago, but there are some key areas of focus that start-ups should be on top of. Here are some thoughts on how to help set your start-up to be successful:
Start out with a great investment strategy
Great alternative investment firms need a great investment strategy. Global macro, equity hedge, event-driven, relative value strategies, distressed securities- it doesn’t matter as long as the chosen strategy has been proven to
Intertrust NV has been appointed by Medicxi to provide fund administration, accounting and compliance services to a USD300 million growth fund targeting late stage European life sciences companies.
Medicxi, which has offices in London, Geneva and Jersey, is one of the leading independent European life sciences investment firms. The new fund, Medicxi Growth I will fill a clear late-stage funding gap in Europe by offering financial support to life sciences entrepreneurs.
Paul Lawrence, Global Head of Funds at Intertrust, says: “We have enjoyed a solid relationship with Medicxi, including a successful partnership with Elian prior to its acquisition by
By George Ralph (pictured), RFA Financial Cloud and Technology Services – It’s a widely held misconception that heavily regulated industries are the least agile, and the slowest to innovate. In the financial services sector particularly, there is a tendency to see compliance and responsibility as a barrier to success, when they should be seen as the essential foundation.
The UK, rather than being a difficult place to do business for financial services firms, fosters growth with an active mix of regulators, investors and accelerators, and a government which is heavily involved in the economy. In fact, the UK’s regulator, the
Mergermarket Group, a provider of business intelligence and research for fixed income, transactions, infrastructure, compliance and equities, has re-launched under the brand name Acuris.
The Company is globally recognised through its unique portfolio of brands, with 700+ reporters, analysts and developers covering financial markets throughout Europe, Asia and the United States. Acuris has 17 offices globally, including three headquarters in London, New York and Hong Kong.
The Acuris brand is designed to communicate the wide-ranging activities of the Company’s research and intelligence titles and the qualities that unite them. All output from the Company is informed by its ‘acumen’,
By George Ralph (pictured), RFA Financial Cloud and Technology Services – The global financial crisis and subsequent recession happened almost a decade ago, but their legacy goes on and on, with more stringent regulations and bigger fines every year.
The financial services sector has to comply, whilst also trying to build IT systems that are capable of gathering, organising and interrogating massive amounts of data, to create reports for the regulators and the investors. It doesn’t stop there. Cloud services can add complexity and house data all over the world, and the increasing use of social and other communication tools
UK peer-to-peer finance platform Assetz Capital is to further develop its nationwide broker network, supported by its rapidly growing Regional Relationship Director team.
Since its inception in 2014, brokers have played a vital role in referring many small and medium sized businesses to Assetz Capital for lending on its peer-to-peer platform. To date, more than 350 successfully funded projects have come through brokers, and the company predicts that this will grow to approaching 1,000 by the end of 2018.
Assetz Capital is looking to increase its active broker network significantly in the next two years, and has revealed its strategy
By George Ralph (pictured), RFA Financial Cloud and Technology Services – In RightScale’s 2017 State of the Cloud Report, of 1002 respondents from companies of all sizes, primarily located in the US, UK and Europe, 95 per cent of respondents were using the cloud in some way during 2017. Of these, 89 per cent are using public clouds (22 per cent exclusively), 72 per cent are using private clouds (only 5 per cent exclusively) and 67 per cent are using a hybrid of the two.
Private cloud use is down from 77 per cent last year, and public cloud use
The Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) has listed the first ever Reserved Alternative Investment Fund (RAIF). The new RAIF was brought to market by Finexis and has been listed on the Euro MTF market.
RAIFs are a new type of vehicle that combine the characteristics and structures of specialised investment funds (SIFs) and investment companies in risk capital (SICARs) qualifying as Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs). However, unlike traditional AIFs, RAIFs are not subject to approval from Luxembourg’s regulator, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier, also known as the CSSF.
The Law of 23 July 2016, which came into effect
There’s a lot hackers can do to wreak havoc for private equity and other investment firms – and it extends far beyond forcing users to change their passwords. In fact, with their roguish hands on the right information, the consequences can be downright destructive for a firm’s business operations and integrity.
Systems & network access
Of course, with stolen passwords and login credentials, hackers can gain access to company systems and networks – not an insignificant feat. Unfortunately, we’ve seen many cases over the years where users rely on reused passwords across multiple systems – meaning when a hacker deciphers
Independent investment bank Zeus Capital has supported two major IPOs in consecutive days on the London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM).
Global Yachting Group (GYG) was admitted to the market this morning, with asset management firm Tatton Asset Management scheduled to join AIM tomorrow. Zeus Capital acted as nominated adviser (NOMAD) and sole broker on both transactions.
GYG is a global, market-leading painting, supply and maintenance company, operating exclusively with superyacht owners and suppliers for boats in excess of 40m in length.
The business, headquartered in Palma, Mallorca, employs 472 people within its operations throughout the United
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