After decades on the margins of finance, impact investing is finally moving into the mainstream. But without stronger standards, greater diversity of players and a wider focus, a promising shift could become corporate greenwash
Averna Capital was set up by Stephen Green, Richard Tudor and Pierre-Edouard Harant
Deal volumes in Italy were up 25% in 2019 year-on-year, with firms spending approximately €10bn on 161 transactions in 2019
Opalesque Industry Update - Corgentum Consulting, a provider of operational due diligence reviews and background investigations, announced the results of a new investor and operational due diligence (ODD) analyst survey. 83% of those surveyed indicated
Opalesque Industry Update - Optima Asset Management, in association with Forbes Family Trust, has announced the launch of the Optima Healthcare and Biotechnology strategy. The new strategy will be managed by five highly accomplished portfolio
Opalesque Industry Update - All hedge fund structures posted strong performance at the end of 2019. The Preqin All-Strategies Hedge Fund benchmark returned +2.00% in December, bringing the 2019 return to +11.58%. Funds of hedge
Opalesque Industry Update - The first ETI (Exchange Traded Instrument) under the public offering issuance program of Liechtenstein 's iMaps ETI plc starts trading on the MTF of the Vienna Stock Exchange. The Haack Performance
Opalesque Industry Update - iM Global Partner today announced the forthcoming acquisition of a 20% interest in Zadig Asset Management, an independent European equities specialist with $1.8 billion AUM and 15 employees based in London
Opalesque Industry Update - Members of the International Advisory Board for Fund Selection (IAB) recently raised concern that investors expected daily liquidity from asset classes that could not always support it. Meeting recently in Madrid
Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Investors in 'real assets' - an asset class including property - will increase their focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, over the next five years, according to a surv...Article
Florian Kawohl, who joins from Strategic Value Partners, will lead the firm’s distressed debt investing strategy
Japanese-themed healthy eating chain Itsu is growing but still lossmaking, and founder Julian Metcalfe is open to selling stakes in the business and an eventual IPO
Currently: Short Looking to: Cover @ $36.50 As of 1/17/20 close: $47.42 LAST WEEK: We suggested shorting bounces to $47.21 on IEV with a downside target for covering at $35.87. UPDATE: The European ETF (IEV)
The total value of transactions dropped nearly 20% last year, but senior bankers are more optimistic about the outlook for 2020
Competitive setbacks and reduced diplomatic security spending push Constellis to brink of bankruptcy
Zadig & Voltaire will remain majority-owned by its founder Thierry Gillier, while TA Associates will be exiting its investment
As senior executives descend on Davos, private equity firms are facing questions about their purpose
When it was launched in 2018, TPG was seeking to raise up to $3.5bn for the fund
British buyout groups spent £25.7bn on overseas companies over the 12 month period to August 31
