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Month: February 2020

Bernie Madoff says he is dying and requests prison release

Madoff, one-time chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market, was convicted of defrauding investors out of billions

Aberdeen Standard seeks €300m for European co-investment fund

Firm aims to reward investors that write large checks early on with fee discounts

Cheesed off: Telepizza bonds binned on restructuring talks

Telepizza bonds sold off by around 30 points on Monday on news that the company had appointed restructuring advisors, available liquidity was sharply lower than the market expected, and it needs around €100m of new

US regulator warns of lockdown threat to financial stability

The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is urging local officials to ease their Covid-19 lockdown measures, warning that some banks are now suffering delinquency rates in the mid-double digits on their

Indian bonds hit in secondary after downgrade

Moody’s Investors Service downgraded the government of India to Baa3 from Baa2 on Monday, triggering bonds from the country to widen in the secondary market.

AMB :- Private equity assets under management (AUM) crosses the $4tn threshold in 2019

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: The private equity industry's assets under management (AUM) crossed the $4tn mark, which puts private equity on course to reach $5tn in AUM by the end of 2022. The asset class

Opalesque Exclusive: Carbon Cap's World Carbon Fund wins Amsterdam AIF Factor prize

Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers: The 9th ABN AMRO Amsterdam Investor Forum (AIF) organized by ABN AMRO Clearing on Feb. 5th 2020 saw once more five alternative investment funds competing to deliver the "most

AMB :- Opalesque Exclusive: Carbon Cap’s World Carbon Fund wins Amsterdam AIF Factor prize

Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers: The 9th ABN AMRO Amsterdam Investor Forum (AIF) organized by ABN AMRO Clearing on Feb. 5th 2020 saw once more five alternative investment funds competing to deliver the &quo...Article

Cowen to integrate prime brokerage business of Global Prime Partners

Opalesque Industry Update - Cowen Inc. has entered into an agreement to cooperate with Global Prime Partners Ltd (GPP) to transition GPP's International Prime Brokerage business to Cowen. Cowen and GPP will work together to

Bain Capital takes over Italian IT company Engineering Group

The transaction marks an exit for Apax Partners after three years

Vanguard to launch new private equity fund

Money manager plans to start push with institutions and later add wealthy individuals

CBPE seals 3x return with ABI Holiday Homes exit

The sale of the manufacturer of caravan holiday homes to its management team generated an IRR of 36.9% for the UK-based firm

HSBC promotes strategy chief to regional Emea head

Stephen Moss, head of strategy and planning, has been promoted ahead of a wider restructure at the bank

Global private equity crosses the $4tn assets mark – report

The industry's assets under management could reach $5tn by the end of 2022, says data provider Preqin

A top US executive at SoftBank’s Vision Fund is stepping down

Michael Ronen joined the fund in 2017 after a 19-year career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs Group.

Carlyle posts narrower quarterly loss

Private equity firm posted net loss of $8.3m, compared with loss of $10.1m in comparable quarter last year

AMB :- Natural resources assets under management surpass $760bn in 2019, a new record

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Strong fundraising and AUM numbers, boosted by mega-infrastructure funds investing in energy, masked a challenging landscape for natural resources funds, said a study. In 2019 natural resour...Article Link

AMB :- Preqin All-Strategies Hedge Fund benchmark returned a net 11.45% in 2019

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: The Preqin All-Strategies Hedge Fund benchmark returned a net 11.45% in 2019, only the second time in six years that performance has hit double digits. "Hedge fund performance improve...Article Link

Bain’s Jonathan Lavine calls for more transparency in the industry

Boston-based Bain Capital came under scrutiny from investors following the high-profile bankruptcy of Toys "R" Us

Europe’s biggest pension fund ABP sets 2050 ‘climate neutral’ goal

The Netherlands’ ABP, which manages almost half a trillion euros, pledges to further cut CO2 emissions from its €150bn equity portfolio

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