Profile: Martim Avillez, Limerston Capital

The COO and founding partner discusses setting up the firm’s operations, combining them with his investment duties and navigating difficult times

Luxembourg’s private debt industry expands

According to a KPMG survey, AUM grew by 51% during the last year; changes in fund vehicles but LP base largely unchanged

Bite Investments launches wealth management feature

Company’s platform to connect asset managers with wealth managers to facilitate fundraising

Carbon Accounting Alliance launches

Group of 35 organisations represents emissions of 24,000 companies

Moving surety from obscurity

Surety could be an overlooked, low cost liquidity solution in a time of portfolio optimisation

Home game Sweden

A change in tax legislation and ethical considerations are leading Swedish PE firms to onshore their funds

JTC acquires Blackheath

Fund administrator expands its ManCo services for UK-based funds

Magic ID secures €350k

KYC startup aims to use the funding to launch its range of ID verification tools in the UK and the EU

Exponent opens Dublin office

Formerly COO at BlackRock, Jacqueline Flynn to head up the new shop as director of operations

Goddard leaves role at Zetland Capital

The former COO and CFO has been with the special situations house since it was founded in 2016

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Our latest issue examines whether Luxembourg deserves its position as the default domicile in Europe and asks if GPs should be more willing to consider alternative jurisdictions.

We also assess the evolving role of the chief financial officer in the digital age, as Corvus Group prepares to launch a plug-in CFO service.

Finally, amid a tight fundraising environment and with the spectre of greenwashing hovering over fund naming conventions, we ask: "What's in a [private equity firm's] name?"

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Profile: Monica Magrassi, Clessidra Holding

Head of operations and CEO of the holding reflects on more than 20 years at the firm and her evolving managerial responsibilities

SimCorp launches investment analytics platform

Offering to be rolled out over multiple launches; performance analytics attribution marks commencement

SEI acquires National Pensions Trust

Companies cite consolidation as a driving force for an increasingly strong market position

Cayman Islands removed from FATF’s grey list

Effective prosecution of financial crimes was key element to de-list but domicile stays on EU’s AML blacklist

Crossbreed funds

How PE is shedding its ‘illiquid’ skin and creating hybrid funds to access the private wealth market

Comment: Pillar Two ex post

Asset managers need to carefully consider the implications of Luxembourg’s proposed implementation of the OECD’s Pillar Two rules, argue Bastien Voisin, Yann Ricard and Olha Polishchuk of Goodwin

Hawksford acquires Paradigm

The fund administrator is expanding to the Cayman Islands

Katipult launches DealFlow Marketing

The add-on aims to optimise investor marketing operations

Carta launches waterfall calculation tool

Company aims to support with LP reporting, M&A deal impact and equity value estimations

What the AI?!... Schroders Capital

Head of global venture investments Steven Yang delves into the machine learning toolset that the firm’s data team has developed during the last decade

There and back again

Matthias Plötz reports on the success or otherwise of German GPs´ Luxembourg holidays

Firm identity

A tight fundraising environment and ESG fund naming conventions warrant a closer look at the names of private equity entities, writes Matthias Plötz

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