Based in New York, Annabelle Ju covers North American institutional investors and fund regulation as the US Private Equity Reporter for Private Equity International and private funds management. She previously reported on market structure at Bloomberg and obtained her Master of Science degree from Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
The placement agent has promoted Meredith Gendron in Boston and Niklas Amundsson in Hong Kong.
1 min read · 20 January 2016
Brookfield Asset Management will spin out about 35% of its private equity arm into Brookfield Business Partners in the first quarter.
2 min read · 14 January 2016
Cambridge Associates examined more than a thousand private equity funds in the US and found that PE managers fundraised $18.3bn and distributed $39.1bn to LPs in Q2 2015.
2 min read · 14 January 2016
Venture capital firms raised $28.2bn through 235 funds in 2015, down from 2014 but still high compared with previous years, according to Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association.
1 min read · 14 January 2016
The Carlyle spinout firm is more than halfway to its $750m target for its first fund that made its first acquisition in November.
2 min read · 12 January 2016
Stephen Wise replaces Karen Bechtel, who founded the team and co-headed it with Wise in the past year.
1 min read · 12 January 2016
The spinout firm from Fleetwood Bank has closed its Fund VIII after four months in the market.
1 min read · 11 January 2016
A rush of North American private equity firms have announced promotions and new hires as 2016 begins and business resumes following the holidays.
2 min read · 11 January 2016
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System released its annual comprehensive investment report, which indicated that of the total $414.1m paid to fund managers in 2014, the largest portion of it went to a managed account with Apollo.
2 min read · 11 January 2016
Irena Blind, who joins TSG from Raymond James, will be responsible for originating growth capital and buyout transactions with branded consumer companies.
1 min read · 08 January 2016
