12/16/2019
Danish firm buys stake in African trade financier
TDB has membership comprising of 22 states drawn from Common Market for Eastern and Southern, East African Community and South African Development Community.
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12/16/2019
Octopus UK Multi Cap Income Fund tops the IA Equity Income ranking after first year
The FP Octopus UK Multi Cap Income Fund is ultimately designed to deliver better than market earnings growth aiming to drive capital performance for investors
12/16/2019
Hedge fund increases stake to 12% in Ted Baker
The company said it had been the “most challenging in our history”
12/16/2019
Hong Kong tycoon snaps up £65m penthouse after Boris Johnson victory
He completed the deal with Beauchamp Estates as the results of the election emerged on Friday, paying almost £10m in stamp duty in the process.
12/13/2019
UAE offers emerging European investors opportunities in an increasingly wide range of sectors
Croatia is already present in the country, thanks to the start-up STEMI, whose robots are teaching people from UAE how to programme, create 3D-models and their own mobile apps.
12/13/2019
Investing for the Future,Now: Delegation, Sustainability and Investor Engagement
If your trustee board has not recently reviewed its governance structures around investment decisions, the publication of the revised guidance provides a good opportunity - and useful examples - of how you might proceed.
12/13/2019
Boris Johnson victory: Boost for the pound, economy and UK financial assets
Many traders were caught off guard by the size of the majority and this may push the pound even higher than previous predictions.
12/13/2019
Cboe Global acquires EuroCCP
The transaction, which Cboe plans to fund with cash on hand, is expected to close in H1 2020.
12/13/2019
France injects €2.5 billion into Africa to finance SMEs
Revealing details of the financial solutions to SMEs and start-ups in Accra, Deputy CEO of Proparco, Djalal Khimdjee said they are working to increase capital injection on the continent from 2.5 billion to about 3 billion euros.
12/12/2019
TB Amati UK Smaller Companies Fund celebrates its 21st Birthday
The first two years were all about finding a pathway through the recession which followed the dotcom boom, and in 2001 I had my first experience of full-scale fraud in a company I had inherited.
12/12/2019
Schroders Outlook 2020: Private equity
Investors’ emphasis on ESG will increase further in 2020, which aligns well with private equity’s long timeframes and higher engagement.
12/11/2019
How pragmatism underpins RGP's rising ambitions in Europe
Grounded in the more traditional interim and co-sourcing work, RGP has in recent years been enriching its model with more advisory and project work, explained Hans Wichink, Vice President Delivery Europe at RGP.
12/11/2019
London Stock Exchange welcomes Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust
ORIT’s investment objective is to provide investors with an attractive and sustainable level of income returns, with an element of capital growth, by investing in a diversified portfolio of renewable energy assets in Europe and Australia.
12/11/2019
Millions of investor funds left minibonds ahead of collapse
The High Court heard this group of people included LCF managing director Andrew Thomson, Simon Hume-Kendall, Elten Barker and Spencer Golding.
12/10/2019
Tobam launches Swiss equity strategy seeded by local pension fund
It adds that its patented Maximum Diversification approach "is designed to offer a neutral allocation to all the effective independent risk factors available to each market."
12/10/2019
St Andrews luxury hotel and golf course sold to Hong Kong investors
The luxury 520-acre Fairmont St Andrews resort includes a 211-bedroom hotel with cliff-top views, championship golf courses The Kittocks and The Torrance, a ten-treatment room spa and five restaurants and bars.
12/09/2019
UK-based Apis Partners hits final close of second fund at $550m, exceeds target
Apis Growth Fund II expects to make equity investments of between $30 million and $50 million into financial services with a focus on capital-light financial services and fintech companies across the growth markets of Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia
12/09/2019
The dark side of transparency
Corporate disclosure is a double-edged sword, suggests Darren Bernard
12/09/2019
Number of luxury Edinburgh properties selling for £1 million on the rise
Edinburgh is behind a rise in luxury home sales in Scotland, with the number of properties selling for £1 million or more up 21 per cent year on year in the first half of 2019.
12/09/2019
Portobello Capital co-winner of 'Best Spanish LBO Fund' prize
Madrid-headquartered private equity fund Portobello Capital was honored at the Private Equity Exchange Awards ceremony when it was announced as co-winner of the Best Spanish LBO Fund Award.