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Covers:  Private equity, venture capital, investment, asset management, finance, business, economy and travel.
Editor at @PrivateEquityN1. Ex-Sunday Herald, Sunday Times, Handelsblatt Global, Politico Europe. Occasional travel writer.
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What's in a name... and what does FundForum's U-turn say about rebranding?

What's in a name... and what does FundForum's U-turn say about rebranding?

Funds Europe — There is something cheering about FundForum, Europe's largest asset management conference, returning to its old name after an incomprehensible spell as IMPower. IMPower, apparently the name of a London-based consultancy and presumably a sponsor, perhaps suggested energy, but it didn't catch on in the asset management community.
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Eric Adler's balancing act at Legal & General

Eric Adler's balancing act at Legal & General

Funds Europe — Just over a year into the role, L&G asset management chief Eric Adler shares an insight into his investment playbook, saying that the scale of the largest UK asset manager in index and fixed income will underpin a selective expansion in private assets aimed at institutional and retail clients seeking hybrid solutions - while the firm steers clear of traditional private equity on the grounds that buy-outs are too mature to justify entry.
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How Schroders built an £81bn private markets titan by avoiding the crowds

How Schroders built an £81bn private markets titan by avoiding the crowds

Funds Europe — Georg Wunderlin, CEO of Schroders Capital, tells Mark Latham about the firm’s ascent to becoming Europe’s sixth-largest private markets player, why the industry’s “indigestion” hasn’t slowed them down and his ambitious plan to court the UK’s pension savers.
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M&G's Joseph Pinto declares "Active is not dead"

M&G's Joseph Pinto declares "Active is not dead"

Funds Europe — Despite the asset management industry continuing to haemorrhage investor cash to passive funds, the chief executive of M&G Investments remains confident that active management is the way forward.
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Aviva Investors CEO Mark Versey on private markets and the future of asset management

Aviva Investors CEO Mark Versey on private markets and the future of asset management

Funds Europe — In an exclusive interview for Funds Europe, the CEO of Aviva Investors Mark Versey, tells Mark Latham about the £238bn group’s tilt toward private markets, LTAFs and his growth plans in the UK and Asia.
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Tokenisation: industry survey gauges the state of planning for digital assets

Tokenisation: industry survey gauges the state of planning for digital assets

Funds Europe — Digital innovation is transforming asset management through tokenisation and blockchain
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Evergreen Funds: Bridging the gap between private and public markets

Evergreen Funds: Bridging the gap between private and public markets

Funds Europe — A research report based on a survey guaging the state of planning among asset managers for semi-liquid funds, also known as hybrid or evergreen funds.
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BVCA's new chair Garry Wilson: 'We need to explain to people what we're doing and why'

BVCA's new chair Garry Wilson: 'We need to explain to people what we're doing and why'

Private Equity News — Founder of turnaround specialist Endless and new BVCA chair says the private equity industry needs to get across the message that it pays its fair share of taxes.
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Citi's Anthony Diamandakis: "This is a totally unique period for private equity"

Citi's Anthony Diamandakis: "This is a totally unique period for private equity"

Private Equity News — Despite the big sell-offs in equities and debt markets in the first half of 2022, the chief of Citi’s alternatives business, Anthony Diamandakis, tells Mark Latham that the future remains bright for private equity and investment banks.
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Bill Browder says Western sanctions on Russia are 'still not enough'

Bill Browder says Western sanctions on Russia are 'still not enough'

Private Equity News — Once the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia, Vladimir Putin's nemesis Bill Browder tells Mark Latham about his journey to 'quiet' private equity investor and human rights activist
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Triton hires external consultant to investigate corporate culture after admitting mistakes

Triton hires external consultant to investigate corporate culture after admitting mistakes

Funds Europe — The private equity company has been criticised for a toxic, chauvinistic and alcohol-fuelled work environment following a ski party
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Global swarming: Shetland councillors go on junkets galore

Global swarming: Shetland councillors go on junkets galore

Private Eye — Fancy a three-week, all-expenses-paid trip to India or a week in the Caribbean holiday paradise of Martinique? No need to get the go-ahead from your bank manager, just get yourself elected to Scotland's most northerly local authority and the world can be at your feet. New figures show the 22 members of Shetland Islands Council are getting more than half a MILLION pounds a year in allowances and expenses as they swarm all over the globe. At least six of the authority's councillors have diaries that resemble travel brochures.
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Nordic Capital's mountaineering boss on scaling the heights of ambition

Nordic Capital's mountaineering boss on scaling the heights of ambition

Private Equity News — Kristoffer Melinder, managing partner of Nordic Capital, talks about the firm's record fundraising journey, learning from mistakes and his outlook for 2023
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Guy Hands on surviving the pandemic which could have 'completely' destroyed him

Guy Hands on surviving the pandemic which could have 'completely' destroyed him

Private Equity News — The Terra Firma founder tells Mark Latham how he managed to keep his firm afloat during the pandemic, about the impact of Brexit on the City and how greater diversity will improve the country.
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£80m tobacco holdings of smoking ban councils

£80m tobacco holdings of smoking ban councils

Sunday Times — LOCAL authorities that would have to enforce the Scottish executive's proposed smoking ban have more than £80m invested in the tobacco industry.
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In the land of the midnight sun

In the land of the midnight sun

The Herald (Scotland) — The Svalbard archipelago is one of the most accessible regions of the High Arctic, and its vast and impassive landscapes are breathtakingly spectacular, as Mark Latham discovered on a glacier trekking expedition last summer.
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iCapital's Marco Bizzozero: We must remove barriers to private market investing

iCapital's Marco Bizzozero: We must remove barriers to private market investing

Private Equity News — The iCapital chief on how the firm wants to remove the barriers to investing in private markets for a new tranche of wealthy individuals
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Wol Kolade: "Everyone is looking at Russia, Ukraine and the US: I am looking at China and Taiwan"

Wol Kolade: "Everyone is looking at Russia, Ukraine and the US: I am looking at China and Taiwan"

Private Equity News — Wol Kolade, managing partner of Livingbridge, tells Mark Latham about his fears that the Ukraine crisis could escalate, why he believes in public service, his best and worst investments and why the private equity industry needs to do more on diversity.
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Ski fall: Budget guide to Courchevel 1850, France's blingiest alpine resort

Ski fall: Budget guide to Courchevel 1850, France's blingiest alpine resort

Sunday Herald — It is known as France’s blingiest alpine resort but in the years since the financial crash upmarket Courchevel has been cultivating a more middle class clientele, as Mark Latham discovered on a trip last winter.
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Moulton warns of Brexit impact on private equity

Moulton warns of Brexit impact on private equity

Financial News — Jon Moulton, the veteran private equity boss, on why he's rethinking Brexit and how private equity stopped being easy.
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Michael Moore: Private equity needs to maintain world-class standards after Brexit

Michael Moore: Private equity needs to maintain world-class standards after Brexit

Financial News — The head of the BVCA reflects on his time in politics, his return to the financial sector and how private equity can help the economy emerge from lockdown.
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David Gauke: EU-UK deal didn't need to be 'as hard a Brexit as the one that we got'

David Gauke: EU-UK deal didn't need to be 'as hard a Brexit as the one that we got'

Financial News — The former Lord Chancellor talks about the unappealing trade-offs of a hard Brexit and why raising corporation tax was the wrong decision.
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Keith Skeoch interview: The height of ambition

Keith Skeoch interview: The height of ambition

Funds Europe — It seemed like a great idea at the time, but three years after the merger that created Standard Life Aberdeen, and as a global depression looms, what are the chief executive's thoughts now?
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INTERVIEW: The Geneva conversation

INTERVIEW: The Geneva conversation

Funds Europe — With the funds industry increasingly preparing for a 'hard' Brexit, Mirabaud Asset Management chief executive Lionel Aeschlimann on some of the headaches that the UK's departure from the EU is creating for Swiss banks and fund managers.
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