Advent International raises $2bn for the latest private equity fund for Latin American company bets... [more]Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: U.S. private equity firm Advent International closed its latest fund, Advent Latin American Private Equity Fund VII (LAPEF VII), at $2 billion.
The global private equity investor said in a news release that it has raised a total of $22 billion in private equity cap
European manager AUM down 1.5% to $11.7tn in H1 2020... [more]Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Total assets under management held by European money managers fell 1.5% to €10.4 trillion ($11.7 trillion) in the first six months of 2020, as markets rebounded following the COVID-19-related downturn, said a study.
According to Moody's Investors Service, a slum
German institutional investors turn to alternative asset classes as COVID-19 highlights their value... [more]Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Alternative assets are playing an increasingly important role in German institutional investor portfolios, with most of the respondents to the German Association for Alternative Investments' (BAI) annual survey increasing their exposure to alternatives in 2019.
H.I.G. Capital rakes in $1.3bn for the latest lower mid-market fund... [more]Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Global alternative asset management firm H.I.G. Capital has closed buyout fund H.I.G. Capital Partners VI at $1.3 billion.
The alternative money manager with $40 billion of equity capital under management said in a press release that the Fund closed with aggregate c
Hedge fund launches rise through mid-2020 amidst HFRI surge... [more]Opalesque Industry Update - New hedge fund launches rose from a near-record low in 1Q20, as investor risk tolerance began to recover from the global coronavirus pandemic volatility, according to the latest HFR Market Microstructure Report, released today by HFR.
New hedge fund launches totaled
Hedge funds are piling into late-stage startups ahead of hotly anticipated IPOs... [more]From Business Insider: Hedge funds and private equity are piling billions of dollars into late-stage, venture-capital-backed tech startups amid a wider slowdown in the economy. Startups, particularly in financial services and software, have seen huge funding rounds led by hedge funds and private equ
CLOs fight back against hedge fund efforts to siphon value... [more]From American Banker: Collateralized loan obligations are the biggest investors in the $1.2 trillion leveraged loan market, yet for months they've been bullied by hedge funds and other money managers exploiting a glaring weakness in their structures. Now, they're fighting back.
Brigade Capital
Commodity: Cooling demand recovery keeps oil stuck around $40... [more]From WSJ: Gasoline demand in the U.S. has flatlined for much of the third quarter, keeping crude-oil prices near $40 a barrel and challenging the global energy industry heading into the final months of the year.
Fragile fuel demand joins other indicators of economic activity-from consumer spen
Currency: Downward dollar: Why the greenback's decline could continue... [more]It has been a rollercoaster few months for financial markets amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The US dollar, as it often is, has been a central player in the story.
At the peak of the crisis in March, the currency spiked by nearly 10% in just ten days on the back of broad-based demand. The move was
Tech: Tech demand increases as investment complexity rises... [more]From Funds Europe: Technology to support private equity investments and other alternatives appears set to become critically important, a survey into asset management technology suggests.
Not only do 82% of institutional investors tell the technology survey that investment management strategies
U.S.: With election looming, US VCs and PE pros lean more democratic than usual... [more]From Crunch Base: Prominent private-equity and venture capital investors have collectively amassed enormous fortunes. And with a U.S. presidential election looming, they're putting at least some of that money to work along party lines. Where is it going?
Before we delve further into 2020, let
Regulatory: Hedge funds regulation: It's not working out... [more]Hedge fund regulation is not working out. Years of concern about giant pools of investment capital that were said to be under-regulated and under-taxed concluded in Dodd-Frank's hedge fund regulation requirements and gave rise to new plans to end capital gains treatment for the profits of hedge fund
And, finally: No, you cannot live below Grand Central Terminal... [more]From AP: Three railroad workers have been suspended for turning a storage room under New York's Grand Central Terminal into an unauthorized "man cave" with a television, a refrigerator, a microwave and a futon couch, officials said Thursday.
"Many a New Yorker has fantasized about kicking back
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B. G., Opalesque Geneva: 68 years ago, economist Harry Markowitz formulated the Mean-Variance Efficient Frontier and a quantitative method that could help investors maximize risk-adjusted returns. According to his model of the Efficient Frontier, a portfolio is "efficient" if it has the best possibl..
