The $13.2bn pension also is considering slightly cutting its 10% private equity allocation. The pension is concerned about performance and illiquidity.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The firm is approaching the 75% invested threshold for its third fund, for which it received an investment period extension from LPs earlier this year.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Pera Capital, co-launched by Ashmore Private Equity Turkey co-founder Robert Romain, may get a €15m commitment from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Massachusetts’ $44bn pension has committed to GTCR, Montagu and Spark Capital recently, as well as to Insight Ventures co-investment funds.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The Government Pension Fund Global, with more than $400bn in assets, will look for environmentally related private equity and infrastructure opportunities, and also is planning an emerging-markets programme.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Jim Swindell will join the firm's growing US private placement practice, overseeing clients in the Midwest.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Friday’s sale, combined with a 2007 refinancing and a public listing in April, combine to generate a return of around 3.6x on the investment in Amadeus.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The Leon Black-led firm is raising a low-fee vehicle with a select group of LPs to buy bundles of life-insurance policies from distressed institutions.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Bank of Nova Scotia executive Jane Rowe will replace Erol Uzumeri, who left in May to launch an independent fund.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The Oregon Investment Council chose this week to withhold a tentative, $400m commitment to the firm made alongside its original $400m pledge last year.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
