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Odyssey Investment Partners has acquired L-com, a provider of wired and wireless connectivity products to original equipment manufacturers, system integrators and network installers.
Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Headquartered in North Andover, Massachusetts, L-com’s customers are typically design and network engineers who are responsible for specifying connectivity equipment into mission-critical applications. L-com offers over 10,000 SKUs across a broad range of product categories, including cable assemblies and connectors, wireless local area network access points, and associated RFID support products.
L-com has manufacturing and sales facilities in Suzhou, China, Boca Raton, Florida and North Andover, MA and its
FundCount, a provider of investment management and accounting software, has integrated FINCAD’s F3 into its FundCount Risk Analytics solution.
F3 provides comprehensive, calculated risk measures that enable companies to obtain a better picture of their portfolio's risk.
FundCount provides technology for financial professionals such as hedge funds, fund administrators, fund of funds, asset managers, private equity funds, and single and multi-family offices. Its clients are worldwide with assets totalling USD25bn.
FundCount creates tools to perform comprehensive portfolio management and partnership accounting, compliance, CRM, web reporting, document management, and more. With the F3 risk platform, FundCount will be able to offer
Rusnano Capital, the Russian government-owned nanotechnology investment company, and international technology investment group I2BF Global Ventures have launched the I2BFRNC Strategic Resources Fund to invest in later stage nanotechnology companies.
The seven year fund launches with a USD53m commitment from its LPs with a target fund size of USD150m. Its remit will be to invest in international nanotechnology that has applications of value within the Russian Federation, with a focus on the resource sector as well as water and agriculture.
“We are delighted to partner with Rusnano Capital on our first late stage venture fund expanding on I2BF’s existing investment
Access Group, a business software provider backed by Lyceum Capital, has acquired Delta Software in a GBP5.4m deal.
The acquisition is Access’ fifth since Lyceum Capital backed a GBP50m buyout of the group in March last year to support its long-term growth strategy.
Since then, the company has consolidated its re-seller channel with the acquisition of its four largest partners – ATL, Elite, Hoge and DHC Finance – to create a direct-to-customer model.
Established over 20 years ago, Access provides a range of enterprise resource planning software and services, with a particular focus on financial, human capital and
Tullett Prebon, an inter-dealer broker, has hired Kishore Kansal, the founding partner and chief executive of PEFOX, to its alternative investments team in London as head of Tullett Prebon Private Equity Risk Solutions.
Kansal will be based in London and will lead Tullett Prebon Private Equity Risk Solutions (TPPERS).
Neil Campbell (pictured), head of alternative investments at Tullett Prebon, says: “We’re delighted that Tullett Prebon is bolstering its position and capabilities in risk management, at a time of both greater regulation and continuing economic uncertainty. With institutions coming under increasing pressure to manage risk and associated capital levels, Tullett
Portware, a provider of broker-neutral, multi-asset trading solutions, has completed its acquisition of the technology and analytical assets of Aritas Group.
The acquisition also includes a portfolio of 17 patents covering Aritas’ predictive analytics and algorithmic optimisation technology.
Aritas’ Alpha Pro and Algorithmic Switching Engine have been rebranded as Portware Alpha Vision, and are immediately available to all industry participants.
Offered in partnership with the brokerage community, Alpha Vision provides buy-side institutions with end-to-end workflow automation and commission optimisation tools, allowing clients to improve trading performance while maintaining and enhancing broker relationships.
Portware Alpha Vision is the first
Multifonds has launched Global Investor, which allows fund administrators to consolidate their investor servicing and transfer agency operations onto a single platform across all investment types.
Multifonds has developed its alternatives capability and extended the former Multifonds Transfer Agent platform to fully support alternatives, rebranding it Multifonds Global Investor in the process.
Five administrator clients are already committed to using Multifonds Global Investor, with three out of the five, including European Fund Administration (EFA), already using the platform to operate alternative and long-only funds together on the single investor servicing and transfer agency platform.
The platform already supports more
Gravitas has launched Gravitas Private Cloud, an expandable, secure cloud solution based on leading converged infrastructure systems from VCE.
The Gravitas Private Cloud is an industry vertical cloud, designed for the unique computing and hosting needs of alternative asset managers, from startup to established funds.
Gravitas Private Cloud combines the advantages of cloud computing – flexibility, scalability and lowered upfront costs – with the turnkey infrastructure and security that regulated financial firms require supported by the managed services required to run this effectively. The Gravitas Private Cloud enables deployment of a fully-functional IT system in days, as compared to weeks for
Patria Investimentos, one of Brazil’s largest alternative investment management and corporate advisory firms, has selected iLevel to provide portfolio monitoring and reporting software solutions.
iLevel will help the firm to automate portfolio company data collection, improve efficiencies, and achieve integrated, real-time access to all of its investment data.
iLevel will provide Patria with an end-to-end solution for collecting, analysing, and reporting on investment data, which will be leveraged across numerous departments, including Investor Relations, Deal Teams, and Operations. Patria’s investment portfolio is one of the most diversified in Brazil, and includes private equity, real estate, and infrastructure. iLevel was selected
The majority of investors in hedge funds, commodity trading advisors and private equity funds expect to increase their allocations to those private investments in 2012, according to a survey by AlphaMetrix.
A total of 65 per cent of investment managers and investors surveyed said they intend to increase their allocations to private investments by some degree this year, with 25 per cent of participants planning to raise their allocations significantly. Further, 35 per cent intend to leave their existing allocations unchanged.
Respondents answered a range of questions during the AlphaMetrix 2012 Miami Summit, a leading networking conference for the private
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