-
The text of the AIFM Directive (the "AIFMD" or the "Directive") adopted by the European Parliament on 11 November 2010 after 18 months of intensive di...
-
NEW YORK, Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. private equity fund- raising regained steam after a slow third quarter, bringing the 2011 total to $122.4 billion raised for 404 funds, according to Dow Jones LP Source. This represents a slight drop in the number of funds that held closings but a 22% increase in capital from 2010, when 409 funds raised $100.5 billion. During the fourth quarter of 2011, limited partners committed $29 billion to 104 fund closings.
The number of firms that raised $2 billion or more in 2011 increased significantly over 2010, which helped drive overall fund- raising," said Laura Kreutzer, managing editor of Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst. "Even so, it was still a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde type of fund-raising market, with some firms hitting their fund targets an...
-
Introduction
The recent economic landscape has seen a significant regulatory overhaul of the financial services sector in Europe. This article highl...
-
NEW YORK -- The European Equity Fund, Inc. (NYSE: EEA) today announced that Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc. ("DIMA"), its investment mana...
-
Article by Peter D. Astleford and Jim Baird Introduction
There has been much discussion recently centered around the proposals of the European Commi...
-
LONDON (Reuters) - Hedge fund firm Marshall Wace has launched the first exchange-traded fund from a European alternative investment manager, as the industry battles to allay investor concerns over transparency in the sector.
The MW TOPS Global Alpha ETF will mirror a basket of the firm's TOPS (Trade Optimised Portfolio Systems) investment strategies, which use mathematical models to evaluate and try to capture the best available ideas from brokers. The plan is to give investors stung by their experience of the financial crisis access to greater liquidity and transparency than they have come to expect from hedge fund investments.
-
LONDON -- LNR Property Holdings Ltd. (LNR) announced today the initial closing of its European investment fund, LNR Europe Investors (LEI). LEI is LNR...
-
LONDON (HedgeWorld.com) - HSBC Halbis Partners, the active fund management arm of global investment bank HSBC plc, is launching a leveraged version of its market neutral European Alpha fund on Dec. 3 due to strong client demand.
The new share class will offer 2.5 times the gross exposure of the existing European Alpha Fund. The objective and investment policy of the Halbis European Alpha Fund is to remain unchanged as a long/short strategy targeting beta neutrality.
-
DENVER, May 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ProLogis (NYSE: PLD), the leading global provider of distribution facilities, announced today that since the start on April 22, 2011 of its mandatory tender offer for ProLogis European Properties, a Luxembourg closed-ended investment fund (Euronext/Amsterdam: PEPR, hereafter "PEPR") it has received for tender or purchased in the open market 52,780,015 Ordinary Units carrying voting rights of PEPR. When these tenders have been accepted and the purchases completed, ProLogis will hold directly or indirectly a total of 126,893,588 Ordinary Units and 9,332,612 Perpetual Convertible Preferred Units ("Preferred Units") of PEPR. Based on information published by PEPR as to the total number of PEPR Ordinary and Preferred Units in issue, this holding will repr...
-
$8M Series D Investment Paves the Way for Become.com's Expansion Into the Growing European Market
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- European Founder's Fund a...