03/30/2015
Bridgepoint raises €4bn fund as private equity finance soars
Bridgepoint, the European buyout firm and owner of Pret A Manger in the UK, has raised €4bn for its latest fund in another sign of the wave of cash rushing into private equity
Alternative Investments
03/30/2015
All Bouwinvest Real Estate Sector Funds Beat Multi-year IPD Dutch Property Indices
Solid capital growth and value added through active asset management have powered all Bouwinvest’s Dutch property sector funds to outperform benchmarker IPD’s annual total return indices for the real estate investment market in the Netherlands
03/30/2015
Sanne announce listing on Main Market of the London Stock Exchange
The Offer is expected to raise more than £140m following strong interest from institutional investors across the UK
03/30/2015
Axiom serves up warm mug of CoCos
These instruments offer high yields compared to other asset classes
03/30/2015
Axiom launches French regulated CoCos fund dedicated to Basel III securities -
Axiom Contingent Capital will aim to outperform its benchmark
03/30/2015
Sterling launches e-trade service for brokers
Offering comes with three new commercial e-trade products.
03/30/2015
Intesa Sanpaolo and GSO Capital Partners to Launch Joint Italian Direct Lending Initiative
Intesa Sanpaolo and GSO Capital Partners, the credit investment arm of Blackstone, have entered into a strategic partnership to provide an alternative source of funding to Italian middle market businesses
03/29/2015
BHP Billiton taps City for mining spin-off
Demerger forming South32 could be the biggest deal the mining industry has ever seen
03/29/2015
Eureeca receives regulatory approval from the UK's Financial Conduct Authority
FCA to regulate the first global equity crowdfunding platform
03/27/2015
Brewin's Gutteridge & Foster talk property with Standard Life's Baggaley
Ben Gutteridge and Guy Foster talk to Jason Baggaley, manager of the Standard Life Property Income investment trust about the outlook for UK commercial property
03/27/2015
Standard Life warns on annuities mis-selling risk
Standard Life head of pension strategy Jamie Jenkins has warned about the possibility of annuities being mis-sold
03/27/2015
European assets draw demand from Asia, says BNPP IP
BNP Paribas Investment Partners expects investors in Asia to increasingly focus on European opportunities amid depressed asset prices
03/27/2015
Borse Dubai sells its stake in LSE
Following the completion of the sale, Borse Dubai will not hold any shares in LSE
03/27/2015
Hedge fund Elliott Management discloses stake in Axis after Canon bid
Hedge fund Elliott Management disclosed a 7.5 percent stake in Swedish surveillance camera maker Axis AB, potentially raising pressure on Japan's Canon Inc (7751.T) to raise its bid for the firm.
03/27/2015
Cyprus: Expansion of business relations with South Africa
The efforts of the association are supported by the Cyprus High Commission in Pretoria
03/26/2015
LHV Bank Partners with Bitcoin Exchange CoinFloor
Estonian Bank LHV has made further links with the digital currency space, having partnered with UK exchange Coinfloor to handle user deposits
03/26/2015
Saxo Bank warns investors to price in the limits of “planned economy” model
Saxo Bank, the online multi-asset trading and investment specialist, has published its Q2 outlook warning investors of the end to the current cycle of ”extend and pretend” as the planned economy model of the past eight years comes to breaking
03/26/2015
Aviva paid out more than £500m in 2014
No one ever wants to claim against this type of policy
03/25/2015
Hedge Fund Boss Flies In for Vivendi Showdown
PSAM said Vivendi is undervalued because of its large cash stock
03/25/2015
Jupiter European Special Situations Fund - removal from Wealth 150
The fund has underperformed our other favoured managers with a full track record in this sector over the period, and our analysis suggests little value has been added through stock selection in recent years.