Governments that invest in businesses, but then have no say on any decisions made by company managers, are much more likely to see their investments be a success, according to new research by Vlerick Business School.

eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, has published its latest research on private equity, venture capital, real estate and other alternative asset vehicles, comprising data from more than 4,000 funds globally.

European Buy & Build activity in the first half of 2019 reached the highest level ever recorded, led by the Nordic region, according to Silverfleet Capital’s European Buy & Build Monitor

Invest Europe has teamed up with the European Investment Fund (EIF), the EU’s leading venture capital (VC) investor, to release new research that highlights venture capital’s positive impact on fostering innovation, growth and job creation at start-ups across Europe.

The report entitled The VC Factor: Data-driven insights about VC-backed start-ups in Europe is the result of an ambitious research collaboration between the EIF and Invest Europe, the association representing venture capital, private equity and infrastructure sectors and their investors in Europe. The ground-breaking report tracked and analysed data on almost 9,000 young companies between 2007 and 2015, as well as some €35 billion of VC investment flows, offering new insights into Europe’s burgeoning start-up scene.

DeckSender.com, the startup platform that aims to democratise access to investment has analysed the gender diversity of the 1400+ startups that have used it’s platform to raise money in its first year operating in Beta and the results are in. This is the first annual DeckSender report into gender inequality for female startups.

New regulations being introduced by the FCA later this year will restrict individual investors new to the property investment platform sector to investing a maximum of 10% of their investable net assets through these platforms.

Economic Intelligence Wales has published its latest report on medium-sized firms and Welsh business structure. 

MJ Hudson Allenbridge has publishd the inaugural edition of its VCT Spotlight Report.  The report features information on all the VCTs fundraising in the 2019/20 tax year and provide a viewpoint of the current landscape (and performance). 

European venture capital activity saw €5.9 billion invested across 296 rounds during the third quarter of 2019, the strongest quarter on record according to research by Refinitiv.

UK investors are turning to traditional assets as a result of the political uncertainty currently facing the country, new research from Butterfield Mortgages Limited (BML) has found. 

A survey of financial advisers¹ on Enterprise Investment Schemes (EIS) has found that the level of use has been consistent despite concern that rule changes brought in by the government as part of its Patient Capital Review² would stifle the market.  In the survey conducted by Great Point Investments, half (56%) of the advisers questioned said the number of clients using EIS has stayed the same in the last 12 months. Two thirds of advisers (67%) also said they expect to see the same level in the use of EIS by clients in the next 12 months. One in ten (10%) said they expect to see an increase and just over a fifth (23%) said they expect a fall.