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Credit and equity managers are leading the charge in regard to the consideration of diversity metrics when researching potential investments, Redington research has found.
Almost all asset managers across all asset classes appear to be recognising the importance of diversity within their own investment teams. Yet despite this, Redington’s Sustainable Investment Survey found that most asset managers across real assets, private debt, LDI and multi-asset funds are not considering diversity metrics such as gender when researching potential investments.
Of the 112 asset managers Redington surveyed, representing over USD10 trillion in AuM, the vast majority (94 per cent) believe that diverse
Bowmark Capital, a mid-market private equity firm, has completed an investment in Kubrick Group, a provider of next-generation technology consulting.
Founded in 2016 by Tim Smeaton and Simon Walker, Kubrick addresses the acute global technology skills shortage, enabling companies to implement digital and data transformation. The business is at the forefront of creating a high quality, diverse workforce, and has trained and deployed close to 1,000 graduates into data, AI and cloud engineering roles at approximately 100 blue chip clients.
Since 2018, revenues and profits have increased by more than 50 per cent per annum, reflecting Kubrick’s unique capabilities in
AnaCap Financial Partners (AnaCap) portfolio company MRH Trowe (MRHT) has closed on a new financing facility in support of its organic and acquisition-driven growth strategy.
MRHT is one of the ten largest German industrial brokers, offering extensive expertise in most insurance lines for both industrial and commercial customers, as well as affluent private customers.
Having been identified by AnaCap as the ideal platform to achieve scale in its market, MRHT has accelerated its buy and build execution in 2021, signing or closing 11 bolt-on acquisitions since December last year. In line with its strategic roadmap, the Group remains well positioned
Glasgow-based space company Craft Prospect has received a GBP870,000 grant award through the UK Space Agency National Space Innovation Programme for its ROKS Mission, coupled with a first investment of GBP300,000 from the University of Strathclyde, a leading university in quantum technologies.
The funding supports the company’s Smart Secure Space vision to provide quantum and onboard AI products and services for next generation space systems. It follows on from successful investment of over GBP1 million from Capital for Colleagues, a fund that advises and invests in employee-owned businesses and Scottish Enterprise earlier in the year.
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Waterland Private Equity (Waterland) has realised its investment in Cawood Scientific Limited (Cawood), a pan-European independent scientific research and analysis group, through the sale of its entire stake to Ensign-Bickford Industries, Inc (EBI).
Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Bracknell, UK, Cawood has more than 620 staff operating in 16 locations across the UK, US, Spain, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and the Republic of Ireland. The Company specialises in providing independent laboratory analysis for the agriculture, food, infrastructure and environmental sectors. It also offers contract research to support the development of agrochemicals, biocides, and other chemicals, as well as measurement
Private equity firm TSG Consumer Partners (TSG) is to acquire a majority stake in Super Star Car Wash, a family-owned car wash operator.
Following the transaction, Founder and President Reza Amirrezvani and the management team will remain significant investors and continue to lead the company. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1993 and based in Phoenix, Arizona, Super Star Car Wash is a family-owned business with 35 locations spanning the Southwest and West Coast in Arizona and California, with expansion to Colorado planned for early 2022. The Company is dedicated to making its customers’ lives
KKR is to make an investment in Beacon Pointe, the parent company to Beacon Pointe Advisors. The Beacon Pointe team will continue to own over 50 per cent of the company going forward, while Abry Partners (Abry) will fully exit its investment as a result of the transaction.
KKR’s investment will provide Beacon Pointe with growth capital to support key priorities and continue the Company’s strategy for national expansion through new office openings and acquisitions. Beacon Pointe’s brand, culture and executive leadership team will remain intact, and clients will continue to receive the same level of high-quality, high-touch and high-tech
Marketing and consumer insights platform Prodege has secured a major investment from Great Hill Partners, a private equity firm that invests in high-growth, disruptive companies.
Great Hill’s investment will be used to support the Company’s rapid organic expansion and targeted acquisition strategy. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Prodege provides its partners with marketing, data, and analytics solutions that enable leading brands and agencies to gather insights, target their core audiences, acquire new customers, boost engagement, increase revenue, and drive brand loyalty and product adoption. Prodege offers its members cash back and rewards for their everyday online activities
Cboe Global Markets, a provider of global market infrastructure and tradable products, is to acquire Aequitas Innovations, more commonly known as NEO, a fintech organisation that comprises of a fully registered Tier-1 Canadian securities exchange with a diverse product and services set ranging from corporate listings to cash equity trading.
Ownership of NEO will help allow Cboe to provide a more fulsome Canadian equities offering, operating the NEO Exchange, a national securities exchange with trading, listings and other services, in addition to MATCHNow, the alternative trading system (ATS) acquired by Cboe in 2020. This strengthened offering is expected to drive
Untap, a next generation portfolio management solution for private capital markets to manage investments, strategies, ESG and Value Creation, has been accepted into Newchip’s renowned global accelerator programme.
Designed to provide all the skills and tools seed-stage founders need to rapidly fund, build and scale their companies, past accelerator cohorts averaged more than 17.5 times the average funding amount. The equity-free, fully digital accelerator has helped over 1,000 founders from 35 countries raise over USD300 million in funding.
“Newchip evaluates a vast and diverse number of companies from across the globe, selecting only a small percentage to be part of
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