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Month: January 2020

Riverwood Capital promotes three to partner

Opalesque Industry Update - Riverwood Capital, a private equity firm that invests in high-growth, middle-market companies in the technology, technology-enabled, and other related industries, announced today the promotions of Harish Belur, Joaquim Lima, and Scott

Trivest closes two new private equity funds

Opalesque Industry Update - Trivest Partners announced the final closings of the Trivest Growth Investment Fund II and the Trivest Discovery Fund with $435 million and $235 million of total capital commitments, respectively. Raised concurrently,

KKR swings to profit

Private equity firm’s revenue, distributable earnings beat expectations

Property of the Week: A £3.95m West Sussex manor house

The UK property has almost 10,000 square feet of living space

Ray Dalio explains how to hedge risk amid coronavirus fears

Bridgewater founder says fears over the spread of the virus have triggered a 'flight-to-quality market action'

Brexit Day is here: Britain steps into the unknown

Compared to the threats posed by climate change and China’s hostility to liberal democracy, the consequences of Brexit may seem far less significant — but the UK has chosen a dangerous time to go it

European venture capital has record year in 2019

VC deal value hit a record-breaking high of €32.4bn in 2019, according to PitchBook

Why Blackstone’s corporate funds failed to keep pace with the S&P 500 in 2019

Blackstone’s corporate private equity funds had gross returns of 9.3% in 2019, significantly behind the S&P 500’s total return of 31.5%

Private equity stocks slide after Apollo fee warning

Shares have been on a tear since private equity firms converted to corporations

AMB :- Other Voices: OCIE publishes its 2020 examination priorities

By: Margaret (Peggy) Blake, Eric Love, Laura Pruitt, David Woodcock, Jones Day The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission&`s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations issued its 2020 examination priorities...Article Link

AMB :- Small deals dominate European venture capital investments volume

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Europe witnessed an increase in the number of low-value venture capital (VC) deals (investment US$20-50m witnessed both volume and value growth in Q4 2019 compared to Q4 2018. The region saw

Other Voices: OCIE publishes its 2020 examination priorities

By: Margaret (Peggy) Blake, Eric Love, Laura Pruitt, David Woodcock, Jones Day The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations issued its 2020 examination priorities...Article Link

ICG raises $2.4bn for third secondary fund

Over the period, assets under management were up 4% to €42.6bn at ICG

UK fintechs brush off Brexit attracting record investment

Fintech companies in the UK attracted $4.9bn in venture capital and private equity investment in 2019

Sovereign Capital scores 5.5x return on insurance broker sale

Under Sovereign’s ownership, Arachas made four bolt-on acquisitions

Blackstone profit buoyed by gains on investments

Firm’s distributable earnings rose to $914m or 72 cents a share in quarter, beating expectations

Data firm for UK public pension scheme adds £1.6m in new capital

The company, which is ‘in a start-up phase’ according to its accounts, was hired to run a fees disclosure system for the UK’s biggest public pension fund last year

GHO invests in Portuguese antibody solutions company

The investment is GHO’s second in January

Citi leads financial sector in LGBT+top employers list

The investment bank received special recognition as one the UK’s best places to work for trans staff

JPM hires William Vereker to bring in big European deals

Wall Street giant takes on one of the best-known investment bankers in the City

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