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 publicly traded mid-market and mezzanine firm has said it will also close two offices and implement ‘internal cost saving steps’ as it re-sizes its operations to coincide with lower business volume. 3i is reportedly cutting 15% of its staff.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Backed by Dubai International Capital and First Eastern Investment Group, the fund’s plans to close on $1bn by October have been dashed by investors’ lack of liquidity.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The distressed investment specialist will particularly target European companies that are casualties of the last cycle’s ‘private equity miracle’, according to firm founder Howard Marks. Earlier this year Oaktree closed the largest distressed investment fund raised to date on $10.9bn.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The firm’s new $2.9bn emerging markets fund allowed LPs to cherry-pick specific regions and countries, a savvy structure given changing investor sentiment, writes Amanda Janis.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The private equity firm will continue to invest in these regions, but has decided dedicated teams weren’t warranted given global financial turmoil coupled with the ‘difficult investment’ climate.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Last year, mega-firms took centre stage in the Private Equity International Awards – will they be displaced now that mega-deals have slowed? Which firms, funds and deals excelled over the past year? Cast your vote now in the only global private equity awards that are voted on entirely by the industry – not by editors.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Falling stock prices for comparable companies has led the mid-market, publicly listed firm to mark down the value of its portfolio. Its shares were trading this week at roughly a 52% discount to NAV.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Investor appetite has soared in recent years for fund managers focused on rapidly growing emerging markets. But is the demand - and the demographic trends driving them - sustainable? Jonathon Bond, fundraising chief for Actis, 3i Asia head Chris Rowlands and Bill Emmott, former Economist editor, share their views.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The fund's investments in turn-key renewable energy infrastructure projects across the EU will be managed by German renewable energy specialist and asset manager SachsenFonds. Aviva and SachsenFonds previously partnered on a €600m Central European property fund.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Paolo Cantarella joins the 50-some operating partners who advise the global midmarket firm. The former Fiat chief currently is a non-executive director of Italian private equity real estate firm Inpartner and Italian utilities firm Iride.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
