Other Voices: Private equity's new trend: selling to themselves... [more]By: Andreas Hinsen, Loyens Loeff
The decline in global M&A activity during the Covid-19 pandemic, combined with the ongoing lack of attractively priced targets, led to a rise in an alternative exit scenario for private equity firms: selling their portfolio companies to themselves, typically by c
BlackRock raises $4.8bn for renewable power fund... [more]Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: American multinational investment management corporation BlackRock Inc. has raised $4.8 billion for a new fund to invest in renewable power assets around the world - almost double its initial target.
The total for the firm's GRP III was almost three times the s
ESG considerations to play growing role in fund domiciliation decision-making... [more]B. G., Opalesque Geneva: Investors are known to influence domiciliation decisions as they prize stability and jurisdictional reputation. While that remains true today, recent events have had some impact on such decisions.
IFI Global and Jersey Finance have just published a new research repor
Hedge funds extend gains to continue strong 1Q... [more]Opalesque Industry Update - Hedge funds advanced in March for the sixth consecutive month despite acceleration in realized equity market volatility, completing a strong 1Q 2021.
Recent strong performance has been driven by exposure to out-of-favor, deep value equities, as well as by optimism ove
Quants are getting ready to pounce on China's commodity boom... [more]From Bloomberg: Trend-following hedge funds in Europe and the United States are waiting in the wings as China opens up its futures markets in everything from coal and soya beans to silver. These quantitative traders are looking to ride the momentum of hard and soft commodities in the world's second-
Credit Suisse tightens hedge fund limits amid Archegos fallout... [more]From Bloomberg: Credit Suisse Group AG is tightening the financing terms it gives hedge funds and family offices, in a potential harbinger of new industry practices after the Archegos Capital Management blowup cost the Swiss bank $4.7 billion.
Credit Suisse has been calling clients to change mar
People: Goldman hires ex-UBS banker to double wealth business in mideast... [more]From Bloomberg: Goldman Sachs Group Inc. hired a UBS Group AG banker to run its private wealth management unit for the Middle East and North Africa, as part of a strategy to expand its business catering to rich clients.
Gabriel Aractingi joined the U.S. bank earlier this month as head of privat
Property: China garnishes global investor hunger for Apac property... [more]From Asian Investor: A new piece of research by the Urban Land Institute and PwC says global investors are keen to pour more funds into the region, due to its economic strength and good demographics.
Booming inflows of investment across Asia's real estate sectors, and particularly into China and
Europe: UK investors flood to equity funds in March, Axa bets $952m on demand for offices - report... [more] UK investors flood to equity funds in March
From Funds Europe: UK investors added record levels of capital to equity funds in March as they bet on the post-Covid economic recovery, according to the latest data from funds transaction network Calastone.In total, UK investors committed a
And, finally: A strange way to wake up... [more]From UPI: A deer crashed through the windshield of a Virginia school bus and landed on a student who was taking a nap during the morning commute.
Powhatan County Public Schools shared footage from the vehicle's onboard camera, which captured the 6 a.m. Thursday incident. The student was not inju
Welcome to the sixth issue of Opalesque's Horizons: Family Office & Investor Magazine - the new issue is attached as PDF and also available as ePUB at the link below.
Aubrey de Grey is one of the world's leading bio-gerontologists and widely known advocate of the provocative view that medical technology will one day all
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