Amanda is the Director of Product Management for PEI, whose editorial titles include Private Equity International, Secondaries Investor, Buyouts, PE Hub, VCJ, Real Estate Capital, Private Equity Real Estate, Agri Investor, Infrastructure Investor, Private Debt Investor, Regulatory Compliance Watch and Private Funds CFO. She was previously the company's Group Managing Editor.
The ‘real’ story behind fees and their evolution were among topics PEI discussed in Sacramento recently with CalSTRS’ head of private equity, Margot Wirth.
Apollo's been taking advantage of buoyant markets on the sell-side, while targeting non-traditional deals including buying some $12bn in European loans over the past 36 months.
Credit market euphoria is creating the next wave of distressed investment opportunities, according to Wilbur Ross and Apollo's Joshua Harris, who spoke at the Milken Institute's Global Conference this week.
Turkey has been tipped for some time to become a hotbed of private equity activity, given its geographic position between Europe and Asia and its strong supply of founder- and family-owned companies ripe for expansion. Now, nearly a decade since Turkish private equity got its start, and with GDP growth forecast to hit 5% in 2013, PEI talks to four of the market’s key players to find out if Turkish private equity is finally set to take off.
Measuring and benchmarking performance has long been a headache for private equity investors. Could relative performance measures ease some of the pain – and help LPs make better asset allocation decisions? Amanda Janis reports