Tag: private equity
Investors Remain Positive on Private Equity Outlook
Investors Remain Positive on Private Equity Outlook
“The institutional community remains confident in the ability of alternatives assets industry to help them meet their return...
North Sea Assets and Private Equity
Blackstone, Riverstone Energy and Carlyle Group are in talks to buy producing assets and also invest in struggling exploration and production companies in North...
Private Equity Shows an Impressive Start in 2015
"Private equity investments are traditionally long-term investments with typical holding periods ranging between three and five years. The average holding period for these deals...
Interview with James Waldinger, Founder and CEO, Artivest
HedgeThink presents an interview with James Waldinger, Founder and CEO of Artivest. Artivest, is an innovative technology alternative investment platform that connects leading private equity...
KKR Leads $15M Round of Funding For Alternative Investment Platform Artivest
Artivest, a cutting-edge technology platform that connects leading private equity and hedge funds with a wider audience of suitable investors, announced a $15 million...
Growing Opportunities for Private Equity in Oil and Gas
“I think this (oil prices falling) is going to be a wonderful, wonderful opportunity for us. It’s going to be one of the best...
2015 Outlook: Private Debt as Alternative Investment
After the financial crisis in 2008, the traditional lenders such as banks had to struggle hard to comply with new guidance from regulators on...
2015 Outlook: Infrastructure as Alternative Investment
Of the five major alternative asset classes – private equity, hedge funds, real estate, infrastructure and private debt – infrastructure is comparatively young and...
Real Estate Private Equity Industry Outlook 2015
The Real Estate Private Equity Industry has shown an impressive performance with 16.7 % annualised annual return over the last three years. The Industry...
High Returns by Activist Hedge Funds Attract Investors
Over the last five years, the Activist Hedge funds have delivered higher returns than the overall hedge fund industry (HFI) benchmark. Last year the Activist...
Major Miami hedge funds and other investment firms
Miami has really been ramping up its efforts to become a financial centre of late, and these are starting to really make a difference....
Growing Opportunities in Emerging Markets for Private Equity
The Private Equity has largely remained focus in North America and Europe for decades. Its penetration in emerging markets has been very low. However,...
Top 5 Challenges for Alternative Investment Industry in 2015
Last year was a beneficial year for all alternative assets except hedge funds. Private equity made profit from more attractive valuations of leveraged buyout. The...
Guide to Hedge Funds and Branding – Part 2 Introduction into...
The hedge fund industry used to have humble beginnings: in 1990, it had $40 billion in assets under management. Now, its growing appeal has...
Guide to Alternative Investments Part 2 – Types of Alternative Investment...
In the previous part of this series, we gave a general outline of the reasons why investors might choose alternative investments - basically anything...
Guide to Alternative Investments: General Overview of Alternative Investments and why...
The term ‘alternative investment’ is an umbrella for all sorts of investments that don’t fall into one of the traditional asset classes of stocks,...