Pension funds stick with private equity allocation plans amid market turmoil

Many of the largest US pension funds have no plans to halt their private equity commitments as coronavirus fears tank stocks

AMB :- Chinese private equity/venture capital deals recover as its coronavirus cases diminish

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Local private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) fund managers say they expect deal activity in China to recover in the coming months as the number of new coronavirus infections in

AMB :- COVID-19 is hurting investor sentiments, deals down by 1/3

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: The concerns around the coronavirus outbreak in China and its subsequent crisis in several other nations are expected to have a large impact on the global economy, which is also hurting

Other Voices: Seven ways the effects of the coronavirus will impact the hedge fund industry

By Donald A. Steinbrugge, founder and CEO, Agecroft Partners, LLC: The changing landscape caused by the Coronavirus will lead to the largest shake out in the hedge fund industry since the 2008 market crash...Article Link

AMB :- Other Voices: Seven ways the effects of the coronavirus will impact the hedge fund industry

By Donald A. Steinbrugge, founder and CEO, Agecroft Partners, LLC: The changing landscape caused by the Coronavirus will lead to the largest shake out in the hedge fund industry since the 2008 market crash. Below

Partners Group warns of coronavirus impact on exits & performance fees

After a stellar 2019, the listed buyout group was more cautious in its 2020 forecast, set to be affected by the Covid-19 outbreak

Private equity stocks fall back to earth after rapid gains

Shares in publicly traded private equity firms benefited after conversions to conventional corporations made their stocks available to index funds

AMB :- Seven of the twenty largest infrastructure investors are based in Canada

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Canada is at the forefront of the infrastructure investment landscape. Of the top 20 largest infrastructure investors globally, seven are located in Canada, pointed out Preqin. Between them, t...Article Link

Hellman & Friedman to buy Israeli cybersecurity company at $1.2bn valuation

Hellman & Friedman will acquire the company from New York-based venture capital firm Insight Partners

SSAs brace for fierce funding competition

Competition among public sector borrowers will be more ferocious than ever when 2021 begins, due to supersized borrowing programmes created to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, the European Union’s arrival as big issuer and a

Record number of European start-ups reach unicorn status

The largest amount last year was raised by German bus service FlixMobility, which completed a €500m round

Asian banks get ahead of Libor transition with switch doc, RFR templates

A possible delay to the final retirement of Libor as the benchmark lending rate on dollar loans is set to offer banks and borrowers a bit more breathing room to make the transition. But in

Philippines sets new records in dollars

The Republic of the Philippines sold its largest international bond in more than a decade this week, raising $2.75bn from a deal that received strong support from investors confident about the country’s control of Covid,

The stock market drop has caused a lot of pain but private equity stands to benefit

The volatility has caused some M&A and initial public offering deals to be put on hold

HgCapital targets more than £6bn for three new funds

UK firm aims to raise $3.91bn for its second fund focused on larger mid-market deals and the same amount for its core mid-market strategy, pension documents show

SMBC’s covered feat shows it’s time for tougher trades

Covered bond issuers were urged to do their toughest covered bond trades in the wake of an outstanding result on Thursday for Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, which attracted a deeper and broader range of higher

Investors fill up on billion-dollar Yum China IPO

Fast food franchise operator Yum China Holdings is cooking a multi-billion-dollar secondary offering in Hong Kong. It is the latest deal in a growing trend that bankers expect will bring more US-listed Chinese companies to

China to tweak bond rule to give foreign investors more access

China is working on new rules to give foreign investors fuller access to the world’s second largest bond market. However, bankers are sceptical. Addison Gong reports.

SMBC set to issue its first negative yielding covered bond

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation sent a positive signal to hesitant Asian covered bond issuers on Thursday when it was set to price its first negative yielding covered bond, attracting a deeper and broader scale of

Geely Auto drives to Star board for secondary listing

Hong Kong-listed Geely Automobile has filed an application to list on the Shanghai Star board, as it prepares to become the first automaker to float on the bourse.

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