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LPs look to technology as pandemic puts analytics platforms to the test

Technology upgrades are helping investment advisers deliver faster, better information to their clients in the coronavirus crisis

Comment: Africa’s gathering debt storm

Without rapid and vastly increased external help to weather the Covid-19 storm and ease their debt-service burden, many African economies could collapse. This would directly affect the rich world in ways for which it is

Stellex Closes Big Fund, Opens New Office

Stellex Capital Management has closed Stellex Capital Partners II LP with total commitments of more than $1.77 billion and exceeding the fund’s original $1.25 billion target. Stellex closed its debut fund in July 2017 with

Berkshire Launches El Dorado Foods

Berkshire Partners has partnered with food executive Javier Vélez-Bautista to form El Dorado Foods. Mr. Vélez-Bautista now becomes the CEO of El Dorado and the new platform will be active acquiring Latin-inspired food and beverage

Benford Closes First Fund

Benford Capital Partners has held a final closing of its inaugural private equity investment fund, Benford Capital Partners Fund I LP. The new fund closed with total limited partner commitments of $130 million, markedly above

Neuberger Berman hires KKR exec as head of Middle East and North Africa

Kaveh Samie will help grow the firm’s footprint in the regions, from its Dubai office

Houlihan Lokey Builds Med Tech Group

Investment bank Houlihan Lokey has added Keith Barry to its team as a managing director and the head of medical technology, a new practice within the firm’s healthcare group. Mr. Barry joins Allan Burton who

GI Closes Data Infrastructure Fund

GI Partners has held a final closing of its inaugural Data Infrastructure Fund LP, with $1.8 billion in capital. The new fund was oversubscribed and beat its target of $1.25 billion. Investors in the Data

Video: DealCloud’s Matthew Hardcastle on PE’s tech revolution

In the first instalment of Unquote's Out-of-Office series, DealCloud's Matthew Hardcastle explains how the growing use of technology among private equity houses could help attract and retain a more diverse pool of talent.

Insight Partners moves quickly to address pandemic shifts

When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, Insight sought to help the technology companies it backs address both the challenges posed by market disruptions and the potential opportunities it created

Argonaut Forms American Cementing, Buys BJ Assets

Argonaut Private Equity has acquired the cementing services business of BJ Services which filed for bankruptcy in July 2020 after failing to reach an agreement with its lenders. Tomball, Texas-based BJ Services is a provider

KICTeam Buys Teknipure with Twin Brook Backing

KICTeam, a portfolio company of Inverness Graham since May 2020, has acquired Teknipure, a maker of c. Teknipure is a manufacturer and distributor of products used to prevent, control, and remove contaminants from cleanrooms and

AEI’s Builds Applied Composites

Applied Composites, a portfolio company of AE Industrial Partners (AEI), has acquired Alliance Spacesystems, a manufacturer and designer of composite structures used in satellite and aerospace applications. Alliance’s activities include the fabrication, assembly, and testing

Arbor Adds Operating Partner

Arbor Investments has named Tom Halverson as a new operating partner of the firm. Since March 2019, Mr. Halverson has served as the chief financial officer for Inari Agriculture, a Massachusetts-based biotechnology company active with

Venture capital pair help app security, ID startup Cloudentity to $13m Series A round

Cloudentity, a provider of application security and identity-aware authorisation, has closed its Series A round on $13m.

AMB :- Opalesque TV: Meet a Swiss fund manager who hedges differently

B. G., Opalesque Geneva: There is a quant manager in Zurich that does things a little differently, which has helped a lot so far this year. ICON Asset Management, which was mentioned in the Corona

Opalesque TV: Meet a Swiss fund manager who hedges differently

B. G., Opalesque Geneva: There is a quant manager in Zurich that does things a little differently, which has helped a lot so far this year. ICON Asset Management, which was mentioned in the Corona

AMB :- Opalesque TV: Meet a Swiss fund manager who hedges with a difference

B. G., Opalesque Geneva: There is a quant manager in Zurich that does things a little differently, which has helped a lot so far this year. ICON Asset Management, which was mentioned in the Corona

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