Today's Exclusives
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Venture Capital funds outperform despite uncertainty [more]
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Venture capital funds worldwide recorded the best performance among all private capital strategies in the first quarter of 2021, according to the latest data from Pitchbook. VC funds had an internal rate of return of 19.8% for the quarter.
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Private equity fundraising softens with 171 funds closed globally in Q3 2021, a drop of 15% [more]
Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Private equity has been performing well since the pandemic, but some signs of market softness may be appearing in Q3 2021, said a study.
According to the Q3 2021?€?Private Equity Quarterly Report published?€?by?€?Preqin, fundraising numbers are slightly softer than
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Dutch group Cardano buys $25bn sustainable asset manager Actiam [more]
Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Anglo-Dutch investment firm Cardano Group has agreed to acquire compatriot asset management firm, Actiam, from the Dutch insurance and reinsurance group Athora Netherlands N.V. for an undisclosed fee.
The acquisition increases Cardano's assets under management
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18. Oct. |
Opalesque Roundup: Hedge funds 2021 momentum halts, slides in September: hedge fund news, week 41 [more]
In the week ending October 15th 2021, eVestment released their September 2021 hedge fund performance figures. Aggregate performance for the global hedge fund business dipped in
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14. Oct. |
Opalesque Exclusive: US SME lending fund in a sweet spot [more]
B. G., Opalesque Geneva: SMEs (small- and medium-sized enterprises) are the backbone of the American and European economies. The U.S.' 30 million SMEs
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13. Oct. |
Opalesque Exclusive: Doshi: The right investment at the wrong time is the wrong investment [more]
B. G., Opalesque Geneva: "The market is the collective behaviour of the many, not the few. If you can understand that behaviour, you can understand the market. Technical analysis, market data or behavioural analysis on their own cannot hope to deliver reliable market predictions. Reliable predict
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12. Oct. |
Opalesque Exclusive: New trade finance fund aims to help European SMEs [more]
B. G., Opalesque Geneva: Trade finance serves as the lifeblood of day-to-day international trade by providing the fluidity and security needed to allow goods and services movement. Trade finance is known to be particularly vulnerable in times of economic crisis. During the COVID-19 crisis, the
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11. Oct. |
Opalesque Exclusive: U.S. stock-picking fund beats the odds [more]
B. G., Opalesque Geneva: The goal of the active manager is to outperform the overall market. Not all of them did so in 2020 when the S&P 500 ended the year up more than 18%.
2020 was tumultuous for financial markets. The torrent of liquidity depressed interest rates and pushed up asset price
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11. Oct. |
Opalesque Roundup: Hedge funds post broad-based gains in September across fixed income, commodity and event-driven strategies: hedge fund news, week 40 [more]
In the week ending October 8th 2021, the data released by HFR said that hedge funds gained in September, navigating a volatile month paced by sharp declines in global equi
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08. Oct. |
Opalesque exclusives: Institutional investors increase private markets allocations [more]
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Institutional investors are sticking with private market allocations despite rising uncertainty over inflation according to a new report from Eaton Partners.
The latest "Eaton Partners LP Pulse Survey" questioned leading limited partners (LPs) from around th
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04. Oct. |
Opalesque Roundup: Hedge funds keep rejuvenating with more launches than liquidations: hedge fund news, week 39 [more]
In the week ending October 1st 2021, according to the latest HFR Market Microstructure Report, new hedge fund launches remained steady through mid-2021. Launches in th
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01. Oct. |
Opalesque Exclusive: US investors look closer at ESG [more]
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: US investors and particularly millennials are focusing on ESG more than any other investor group according to new data from global asset manager Schroders.
Schroders' Global Investor Study surveyed over 23,000 investors (including 1,500 in the U.S.) gau
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30. Sep. |
Opalesque Exclusive: A new activist fund focuses on Japan [more]
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York for New Managers: Activist investing is beginning to take hold in Japan. In August, Gordian Capital announced the launch of the Japan Catalyst Fund sub-advised by Tokyo based, Japan
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29. Sep. |
Opalesque Exclusive: Credit Suisse gender report shows improvement in diversity but gaps remain [more]
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Women have taken the brunt of the pandemic in many ways. Data show that more women than men left the workforce during the pandemic. But for those that remained employed there are a few positives. New data from Credit Suisse shows that the number of women on boar
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28. Sep. |
Opalesque Exclusive: Total Return Futures are gaining recognition on both sides [more]
B. G., Opalesque Geneva: Regulatory changes have driven OTC business to listed solutions since the 2008 financial crisis. The Eurex Total Return Future (TRF) on the EURO STOXX 50® index is a prime example of this so-called futurization process, making TRFs a widely accepted alternative to OTC swa
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27. Sep. |
Opalesque Roundup: Hedge funds rake in $18.3bn of new inflows from allocators during July: hedge fund news, week 38 [more]
In the week ending September 24, 2021, a report by BarclayHedge revealed that global hedge fund industry assets have surged to USD4.4 trillion, with hedge funds raking in USD18.3 bil
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22. Sep. |
Opalesque Exclusive: Female led team of veteran ESG investors to launch debut fund [more]
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York for New Managers: A female-led team of veteran ESG investors is preparing to launch a new fund early next year built on their ESG investing and advisory experience.
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15. Oct. 2021 |
Other voices: Pandemic-derived supply chain issues unlock investment opportunities [more]
Authored by: Germaine Nicole Gurr and Arlene Arin Hahn of White & Case, a global law firm.
Pent-up demand for M&A deals has been unleashed to deliver the busiest first three quarters of a year for investment banks on Mergermarket record (since 2006). The boom is partly driven by abundant liquid
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07. Oct. 2021 |
Other Voices: Will green bonds be enough to meet carbon reduction targets? [more]
By Gael Binot and Herve Chatot, respectively Emerging Markets Fixed Income Manager and Cross Asset Manager, La Francaise AM
At the end of 2020, the European Union decided to revise its environmental objectives upwards by targeting a 55% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2030 compared to 1990 leve
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06. Oct. 2021 |
Other Voices: What Biden's tax proposals mean for private funds [more]
Authored by Sonia Kothari and Raj Tanden - Foley & Lardner LLP
On September 13, 2021, the House of Representative Ways and Means Committee introduced tax proposals that, if enacted, would make significant changes to the U.S. federal income tax system. This Alert summarizes some of the proposals
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21. Sep. 2021 |
Other Voices: Why more private fund managers are domiciling in Asia [more]
By: Jason Denisenko, James Ford, Shuhui Kwok, Charlotte Robins
Pragmatic fund structures and attractive tax and setup incentives are convincing an increasing number of private capital fund managers to domicile in Hong Kong and Singapore.
Asia is rapidly maturing as a market for alternative a
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16. Sep. 2021 |
Other Voices: Private equity firms hunt for value in public markets [more]
Authored by Oliver Brahmst, Chang-Do Gong, Steven Sha, and Suni Sreepada from White & Case LLP, a global law firm.
The takeover of supermarket chain Morrison's, the fourth-largest in the UK, has caused something of a stir.
The UK-based supermarket chain is the subject of a bidding wa
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27. Aug. 2021 |
Other Voices: DEI update - SEC approves rule on board diversity [more]
By: Philip Berkowitz, Corinn Jackson, Britney Noelle Torres
As companies focus on workforce inclusion, equity, and diversity (IE&D), they are under increasing pressure to assure that the membership of their boards reflects these values. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently appro
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18. Aug. 2021 |
Other Voices: Private equity carve-outs ride post-COVID wave [more]
By:Darragh Byrne, Germaine Nicole Gurr, Arlene Arin Hahn, Tzi-Yang Seow
Last spring, Dell spun off its cloud computing business, VMWare, in a deal valued at nearly US$63 billion, with the equity from the deal funneled to existing shareholders including Dell itself and the PE firm Silver Lake Par
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23. Jul. 2021 |
Other Voices: SEC changes dollar threshold for qualified clients [more]
By: Manas Kumar, Eileen Overbaugh
What You Need To Know:
Effective August 16, 2021, the Assets-Under-Management Test will increase to $1.1 million, and the Net Worth Test will increase to $2.2 million.
On June 17, 2021, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued an order (SE
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Is the SPAC boom fizzling out?
From Crunch Base: SPACs may be fizzling out. Since February 2021, when the SPAC (special-purpose acquisition company) craze was booming, a market selloff has wiped out about $75 billion of the value of companies that went public using SPACs, according to - Institutional Investors: Vanderbilt University endowment records 57.1% return for fiscal year, MIT endowment logs 55.5% return for latest fiscal year, AP1 re-tenders $720m emerging markets small-cap mandate, Harvard, world's wealthiest university, sees endowment soar to $53.2bn, San Francisco shifts passive equity mandate to active BlackRock ESG strategy[more]
Vanderbilt University endowment records 57.1% return for fiscal year
From PIonline.com: Vanderbilt University's endowment returned a net 57.1% in the fiscal year ended June 30, according to a financial report on the Nashville, Tenn.-based university.
The report did not provide benchma - New Launches: Massar Capital launches new global discretionary strategy, White Oak closes latest direct lending fund at $1.3bn, Aterian replicates speedy fundraise to collect $830m in nine weeks, Sofinnova holds $548m final close for Capital X, Multicoin Capital targets $250m for third crypto VC fund, Tobam launches French bitcoin and blockchain fund[more]
Massar Capital launches new global discretionary strategy
Massar Capital Management has launched a new discretionary macro hedge fund strategy which aims to capitalize on directional trading opportunities across a broad set of global markets.
The Massar Macro Directional is the N - How Viking Global became the hedge-fund industry's hottest launch pad[more]
From Business Insider: Since Dan Sundheim's massively successful launch of D1 Capital in 2018, there have been six more spinoffs from Viking Global that have collectively raised billions - and at least one more is in the works.
Among them: Grant Wonders, 31, who launched Voyager Global this ye - SPACs: After early investors flee SPAC deals, day traders rush in, PE-backed electric car maker Polestar worth $20bn in US SPAC deal, Europe's IPO market roars back to life but where are the SPACs?[more]
After early investors flee SPAC deals, day traders rush in
From WSJ: Day traders are targeting some companies that recently closed SPAC mergers, reinvigorating some of the meme-stock excitement that helped make such deals popular early in the year.
The latest special-purpose-acquis
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