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 state’s retirement system has committed to six alternative investment funds, weeks after increasing its private equity and real estate allocation to 10 percent.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Public-private partnerships can produce ‘miracles’ in a state that needs more than $500bn in infrastructure investments, California’s celebrity governor said at the Milken Institute’s conference.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Riverstone, Goldman Sachs and Kelso & Co. are among five investors backing an oil exploration and production company targeting the ‘hottest play in Western Canada’.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The US firm has hired former bankers to invest in the region’s financial services, energy and seafood sectors.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The firm’s regulatory affairs head, David Marchick, warned a Senate committee today against protectionism, using Carlyle’s stake sales to CalPERS and Abu Dhabi as examples of government-affiliated investments that bolster US companies.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The private equity advisory firm is currently interviewing candidates to lead two new international offices as the regions’ investors become increasingly important in private equity.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The challenges of running sophisticated alternative investment platforms beneath government umbrellas – from retaining talent to enduring criticism over private equity allocations – were among topics broached today by a panel of heavy-hitting LPs.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The private equity firm, one of its lenders and Clear Channel have dispensed all litigation pursuant to the purchase of Clear Channel’s TV group, for which Providence has paid 28 percent less than originally agreed.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Newbury Partners, launched by Auda Advisors’ former secondaries team, has already committed 25 percent of its debut fund.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Should California pass a bill limiting pensions’ ability to invest in sovereign wealth-linked private equity funds, it may have serious unintended consequences, writes Amanda Janis.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
