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Equity Venture Partners has announced the first close for its third fund, at $50 million. The Sydney-based venture capital manager is now working on a final close for the offering. EVP, which has joined with Brookvine and Spire Capital for the next fund raising, is an early stage business-to-business software investor with a 15-year track…

The case for venture capital as an institutional investment has never been more apparent. As others in the private markets generally are saying, “where else are you going to invest?” While a new model doesn’t make it any easier for Australia’s big funds to invest locally, it does so globally. The new model consists of…

Insurance-linked securities and catastrophe (cat) bonds have become increasingly popular investments for institutional investors over the last 20 or-so years, since the market took off due to a spate of hurricanes in the US. COVID-19 has added a new twist. There may now be a capacity problem. According to two complementary research notes by investment…