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02 Mar. 2023 Wealthy millennial investors show more interest in alternative investments [more]
Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: The next-gen is expected to inherit $73 trillion in the coming years, and they could be poised to make very different decisions with their money than previous generations. 73% of younger people believe that it is not possible to achieve above-average returns solely
02 Mar. 2023 Franklin Templeton hires alternative investments author and consultant [more]
B. G., Opalesque Geneva: Franklin Templeton, a global investment firm in New York City, has just hired an expert to foster its educational reach. Tony Davidow has joined the Franklin Templeton Institute, the firm's research centre, as
02 Mar. 2023 Institutional investors expect private markets to outperform public markets [more]
Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Global institutional investors believe private markets are more resilient than their public market counterparts, especially in times of heightened short-term uncertainty and risk, revealed a study. According to the annual Global Investor Survey for 2023 by Adams Str
01 Mar. 2023 Bain Capital Ventures raises $1.9bn for two tech-focused funds [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), the venture arm of the namesake private equity giant, is debuting $1.9 billion in two new funds to invest in startups from seed to growth rounds within fintech, infrastructure, apps, and commerce. San Francisco-based multi-stage VC firm - k
01 Mar. 2023 Investcorp racks up more than $1.2bn for debut North American PE fund [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - Global alternative investment firm Investcorp Holdings has closed on more than $1.2 billion in commitments for its debut North America private-equity fund to make control investments in middle-market services businesses. Fund I received capital commitments from blue-c
01 Mar. 2023 Oaktree gets into private credit [more]
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Asset management firm Oaktree has launched a private credit arm - Oaktree Lending Partners. Oaktree Lending Partners is targeting $10 billion in equity commitments from institutional investors for the group which will make senior secured loans of $500 milli
01 Mar. 2023 Ares Management buys a minority stake in BlueCove with the option to get control later [more]
Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: The global alternative investment manager Ares Management Corp announced its agreement to acquire a minority equity stake in BlueCove Limited, the London-based institutional scientific fixed income manager. According to a joint press release, Ares holds the option
01 Mar. 2023 Abrdn sells $7.3bn discretionary fund management to LGT for $168m [more]
Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: LGT, originally known as The Liechtenstein Global Trust, is set to buy Abrdn Capital, the discretionary fund management (DFM) arm of the global investment company and asset manager Abrdn, for GBP140m ($168m). The DFM business, which has GBP6.1bn ($7.3bn) in assets
01 Mar. 2023 Barings picks up direct private investments and asset finance teams from MassMutual [more]
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: MassMutual's Direct Private Investments, a fund finance provider, and MassMutual Asset Finance, an equipment finance company, will transition to Barings. The move will occur in the second quarter of 2023. In a statement, MassMutual said the transition wi
01 Mar. 2023 Why US equities lower are lower in February [more]
B. G., Opalesque Geneva: Recent economic data have been strong across the world boosted by China reopening from covid, falling gas prices in Europe and strong numbers for employment and consumer spending in the US, says
28 Feb. 2023 SixThirty Ventures closes fund III with $66M [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - Today, SixThirty Ventures announced the final close of SixThirty Fund III, anchored by category-leading corporate LPs including Edward Jones and Reinsurance Group of America (RGA). With the new fund, assets committed to SixThirty tripled, allowing the firm to make larger
28 Feb. 2023 Lyric Capital Group closes second music royalties fund [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - Lyric Capital Group, a New York-based private equity firm that specializes in investing in music copyrights and the owner of global music publishing operation Spirit Music Group, announced today that it has successfully closed its second fund, with total commitments of ap
28 Feb. 2023 NAV facilities gain momentum [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - Growth in Net Asset Value (NAV) credit facilities has increased exponentially in importance among private equity and other alternative investment funds since the pandemic relative to the secondary trading of assets as a means of creating liquidity, according to the Citco
28 Feb. 2023 SBAI appoints new North American chair [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - The Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI) today announced that Derek Drummond, Fund Alpha Manager at State of Wisconsin Investment Board, has been appointed as the new Chair of the SBAI North American Committee. Derek will work closely with Sapna Vir, Managin
28 Feb. 2023 Man Group's profits rise [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - Man Group said on 28 February that pretax profit in 2022 rose on higher management and performance fees, and that it intends to repurchase more shares. Significant alpha and net inflows reflect quality of investment offering across alternative and long-only. Asset
28 Feb. 2023 AIMA publishes due diligence questionnaire for digital asset funds [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), together with leading digital asset investors and industry experts, has published a new set of due diligence questionnaires (DDQs) for digital asset investment managers and funds (
28 Feb. 2023 Fifth Wall closes $1.5 billion in new funds [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - Fifth Wall announced the close of $1.5B of new funds in 2022, including a $866M Real Estate Tech Fund III, €140M European Fund and $500M Climate Fund. Since 2016, Fifth Wall has raised the third-most capital of any venture firm globally ($2.9B), according to SEC Form
28 Feb. 2023 More than 75% of major European companies link carbon targets to executive pay [more]
Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: An analysis shows that the vast majority (78%) of top major European companies have now adopted some measure of carbon target in executive pay, with payouts in carbon targets disclosed in 2022 averaging at 86%, and over half paying out at 100%. The new joint study
28 Feb. 2023 Private equity set for resurgent growth in the second half of year [more]
Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Global private equity's recent challenges in fundraising, deal-making and exits don't dim the long-term outlook for the asset class, said a study. According to Bain & Company's 14th annual Global Private Equity Report, global PE remains well positioned for
28 Feb. 2023 Largest asset managers failing in ESG investing [more]
Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Global money managers with a combined $77 trillion of assets under management are failing to protect biodiversity, said a report. According to a report released by ShareAction, asset managers continue to drag their feet in the adoption and implementation of measure
28 Feb. 2023 Cinctive Capital Management adds new long/short quant strategy [more]
Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: The alternative investment multi-manager platform Cinctive Capital Management announced the addition of new global long/short quantitative trading capabilities. The New York-headquartered investment management company that specializes in equity strategies said in a
27 Feb. 2023 GoldenTree Asset Management opens office in the Middle East [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - GoldenTree Asset Management, a global asset management firm with over $49 billion in assets under management, today announced the opening of its first office in the Middle East in the Dubai International Financial Centre, United Arab Emirates. The Dubai office will bec
27 Feb. 2023 H.I.G. Capital adds to capital formation team [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - H.I.G. Capital, LLC, a leading global alternative investment firm with $55 billion of capital under management, has announced that Colin Hannaway has joined the firm's Capital Formation Group as a Managing Director, based in New York City. Colin will be responsible fo
27 Feb. 2023 CVC Credit prices first CLO of 2023 [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - CVC Credit has priced Apidos XLIII (43), a Collateralized Loan Obligation fund totalling c.$500m (c.€ 470m), arranged by Deutsche Bank. Apidos XLIII is the first new CLO priced by CVC Credit's transatlantic performing credit platform this year and will increas
27 Feb. 2023 RealBlocks launches $1bn liquidity solution for alternative investment funds [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - RealBlocks, a technology platform for alternative investments that provides an end-to-end digital investing process and secondary trading, announces the product launch of Queue Protection. Queue Protection from RealBlocks is a new solution to help relieve mounting liq
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