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REISA, a US trade association serving the alternative investment and securities industry, is changing its name to the Alternative and Direct Investment Securities Association (ADISA).
"The change to Alternative and Direct Investment Securities Association better reflects our organisation's mission and what we provide to the alternative investment industry," says ADISA executive director/chief executive John Harrison. "Our association represents thousands of individuals in alternative investments from all types and sectors, and we strive to provide the best education, networking and advocacy for these professionals.
ADISA influences more than 20,000 professionals who offer and manage alternative investments, such as non-traded REITs,
“The analogy I like to use is the Rubik’s Cube with all the colours mixed up. What we do is take clients through the process of realigning all their data – getting the colours of each block to match – to transform their data infrastructure,” says David van Rooyen, one of the founders of London-based Pomerol Partners.
Pomerol Partners is a business intelligence consultancy that specialises in advanced data visualisations. The firm builds business toolsets – dashboards – to help senior executives make more informed decisions. That sounds straightforward but within the financial services industry, particularly global investment banks, such
PrivatEquity.biz, the first secondary market trading platform in Israel, is expanding its activities in the UK.
The platform, which was launched a few months ago, is offering private and institutional investment managers in the UK the opportunity to establish in-house VCs which invest in the secondary market in Israel, focusing on growing private Israeli hi-tech companies.
The company is negotiating with a number of UK-based entities in order to establish its extension in London.
The hi-tech industry in Israel is one of the major hubs of technological innovation in the world. The number of hi-tech companies has leapt
Castle Hall Alternatives, an operational due diligence specialist focused on hedge funds, private equity funds and long-only funds, has teamed up with ReportLab to launch the OpsDiligence platform.
The hosted platform provides clients with access to a detailed live database and in-depth PDF reports, often 50+ pages long. Reports can be generated directly from the database, allowing clients to pull down a publication-quality document seconds after updates to any of the content.
Castle Hall Alternatives specialises in operational due diligence on hedge funds, private equity and long only funds.
“We came to ReportLab for the document creation technology,
Nineyards Capital is to launch an electronic investment platform – Crowdstacker – in the fourth quarter.
Crowdstacker aims to help businesses take control of their funding requirements and to move away from traditional finance channels by delivering a range of investment products.
The news comes hot on the heels of Chancellor Osborne’s launch of Innovate Finance at Canary Wharf’s Level39 and his announcement of new measures to support the FinTech sector, including plans to allow peer to peer lending in ISAs and incentives to encourage investment start-ups.
Nineyards Capital co-founder and director, Mark Bristow, says: “We are seeing
Buttonwood Group Advisors is to list on the FNEX online alternative investment platform via its placement agent, affiliated broker-dealer Joseph Gunnar & Co.
FNEX.com provides accredited investors, investment advisors, family offices and institutions access to private investment opportunities offered by investment banks and funds across the US.
The distribution platform lists offerings and provides investors with the necessary tools to educate themselves on alternative investment opportunities. To date, FNEX has integrated with custodians, trusts and self-directed IRA platforms that represent over 400,000 accounts and over USD40 billion in assets under management, with more than 200 investment banking offices and
Carey Group has become the first listing agent in the world not based in the Cayman Islands to become a Cayman Islands Stock Exchange (CSX) listing agent.
Being based in the same time zone as London gives the Carey Group Guernsey team a significant advantage over all other CSX listing agents with respect to servicing European and MENA based clients.
As both a listing agent of the CSX and a listing member of the Channel Islands Securities Exchange (CISE), Carey Group’s Guernsey fund services business now has the unique capability to offer clients the choice of two recognised stock exchanges.
Consulting firm mergers and acquisitions specialist Equiteq has launched Equity Edge, an online resource hub that provides owners with information to help them develop their consultancy to be both sellable and valuable.
Equity Edge provides analysis of market conditions, advice from those who have sold their firms and intelligence from buyers themselves.
“Generating consistent growth is the biggest day-to-day priority for any consulting firm, whilst selling your business can often be one of the greatest life-changing decisions you ever make,” says Paul Collins, managing director of Equiteq. “Both require careful planning and an in-depth understanding of the challenges and
Zeus Capital has advised Epwin Group, a manufacturer of low maintenance building products, on its admission to AIM as nominated adviser and sole broker, including the GBP94 million institutional fundraise.
Epwin has a market capitalisation of GBP135 million.
The Cheltenham-based company announced its intention to float on AIM on 10 July in a bid to raise GBP10 million to repay a portion of its debt. The group placed 135 million ordinary shares at a price of 100 pence under 'EPWN' and issued a free float of approximately 70 per cent.
Founded in 1976, Epwin was one of the
The Private Equity Principal Group (PEPG), a professional association designed for individuals at the principal and vice president levels within private equity firms, has launched in the US.
The association was developed as a resource to provide members with the skills and resources necessary to take the next step in their careers.
“We began to see that there was not enough training and education for young professionals in the private equity space. PEPG’s goal is help provide the education, training, and connections necessary for principals’ path to partnership,” says Neil C Krauter, chairman of the PEPG board of directors.
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