{"id":68587,"date":"2018-01-22T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/news\/natixis-investment-managers-acquires-stake-in-airborne-capital\/"},"modified":"2018-01-22T00:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T23:15:00","slug":"natixis-investment-managers-acquires-stake-in-airborne-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/news\/natixis-investment-managers-acquires-stake-in-airborne-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Natixis Investment Managers acquires stake in Airborne Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The stake was acquired for an undisclosed sum<br \/>\nfrom the existing shareholders, comprising Airborne\u2019s founding management team and FEXCO,<br \/>\nIreland\u2019s largest privately owned financial services company. <\/p>\n<p><quote><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>  Acquires minority stake in fast growing air finance business<\/li>\n<li>  Deal helps accelerate Airborne\u2019s plan to reach $5bn in assets under management<\/li>\n<li>  Vote of confidence by top asset manager in Airborne\u2019s strategy<br \/>\n<\/quote><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The deal provides Airborne with access to a worldwide asset management platform which will help<br \/>\nto accelerate its plans to grow the business to have aircraft assets under management of over<br \/>\n$5bn within the first 5 years of operations. The transaction enables Natixis Investment Managers<br \/>\nto continue to expand its expertise in alternative investments, specifically real assets.<\/p>\n<p>Airborne was launched in November 2017 by a management team with over 100 years of<br \/>\ncombined experience in aviation finance, including with Natixis, one of the leading banks in<br \/>\naviation financing, where Ramki Sundaram, CEO of Airborne Capital, was previously Global Head<br \/>\nof Aviation.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s strategy is to assist capital providers looking to invest in an emerging asset class in<br \/>\nan environment where the aviation industry is set for rapid growth in fleet size, and traditional<br \/>\nsources of bank finance are reducing. Airborne invests in aircraft as an asset class across a<br \/>\nnumber of investment strategies with the aim to generate stable, long-term, non-correlated<br \/>\nreturns.<\/p>\n<p>The asset class is mobile and global by nature, and the two primary investment themes feature<br \/>\neither the pursuit of stable long-term returns with high yield underpinned by contracted cashflows<br \/>\nor the pursuit of a higher return strategy based on opportunistic investments driven by market<br \/>\ndislocations.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the transaction, Ramki Sundaram, CEO of Airborne Capital said: <em>\u201cWe are delighted<br \/>\nto welcome Natixis Investment Managers as a shareholder in Airborne Capital. It is a strong sign of<br \/>\nconfidence in our strategy to gain the support of a top international asset manager and will help<br \/>\naccelerate our growth plans. We see opportunities to work closely with them on structuring future<br \/>\ndeals.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jean Raby, CEO of Natixis Investment Managers, said: <em>\u201cAirborne Capital combines an experienced<br \/>\nmanagement team, a strong track record and a unique model to investing in real assets in the fast<br \/>\ngrowing commercial aviation sector. We look forward to partnering with Airborne as they continue<br \/>\ntheir ambitious growth. As demand for alternative and real asset classes grows, we will continue to<br \/>\ninvest in the ability to bring our clients the best solutions available.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natixis Investment Managers, one of the world\u2019s largest asset management firms and the asset<br \/>\nmanagement arm of French bank Group BPCE, has acquired a minority stake in specialist aircraft<br \/>\nlease and asset management firm Airborne Capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":68585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1470],"tags":[1655,1888,1651,2007,2082],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68587"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}