LGIM launches private credit portfolio
Fund will aim to offer strategic alternative to cash and other short-dated credit alternatives
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Fund will aim to offer strategic alternative to cash and other short-dated credit alternatives
Strategy was launched by the firm’s private markets business last November with an initial €500m committed
Venture capital (VC) money flowing into Europe has “skyrocketed” in recent years, according to Invest Europe, formerly the European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association. The body’s Venture Capital: Fuelling Innovation Report found venture capitalists had invested more than €96bn in almost 27,000 European companies over the last decade, with €18bn of that coming in…
Trium Capital has launched a multi-strategy alternatives UCITS fund. The Trium Multi-Strategy UCITS Fund will allocate capital across 10 different alternative strategies, including capital structure arbitrage, equity long/short, systematic equity, event driven and global macro. The fund will be led by head of multi-strategy solutions Clark Fenton alongside the wider multi-strategy team. He said the…
Rising interest rates, widening discounts and fixed income inflows have bruised assets
Venture capital (VC) investors on the continent played “a waiting game” in the second quarter of the year, according to the latest instalment of KPMG’s Venture Pulse report. Noting how investors were embracing AI, the report’s authors wrote: “AI and deep-learning technologies were a hot area of investment in Europe during Q2 23, with UK-based…
An S&P Global Market Intelligence suggests so
The firm said the fund will provide access to direct private market investments
Private equity investors are anticipating a good year for the sector in Europe in 2023, followed by a stronger year still in 2024. Half (51%) of the respondents to Coller Capital’s latest Global Private Equity Barometer indicated they expected a stronger outcome for European private equity in 2023, rising to 71% for 2024. This was…
Recent market events add conviction to the argument that favourable entry points are emerging for REITs Late last year, we wrote a report arguing an attractive entry point was emerging for real estate investment trusts (REITs). Recent market developments have added further conviction to this view, with four key factors underscoring our analysis. First, commercial…
Savills Investment Management has agreed to buy €100m worth of residential property in Sweden, adding the buildings to its European Living platform. The firm said the deal would comprise six buildings across the cities of Uppsala, Västerås and Gävle, all of which were built in the last four years. It added that five out of…
Within the real estate asset class, we often see international investors joining forces with German investment managers and other market players. Their decision is based on the rationale that international investors can tap into local knowledge and existing networks. When it comes to the equity release for single-family homes market segment, it is the complete…