Gregory Roth

MetLife Executive Named Chairman At LP Association

The Institutional Limited Partners Association, the main group advocating for best practices between institutional investors and private equity firms, named Michael Mazzola, the head of alternative investments at MetLife, as its new board chairman. The appointment was effective on Nov. 7th.

Washington State Investment Chief Says Access to Top Venture Funds Remains Difficult

Limited access to top venture funds continues to restrain the Washington State Investment Board from investing in the asset class, according to Gary Bruebaker, the board’s chief investment officer.

Washington State Goes Deep With Energy, Mining GPs

FIVE QUESTIONS WITH KYLE RYLAND, Managing Director, Silver Lake Sumeru

Private Equity Fails To Lift University Endowments

A new study reported that the average U.S. university endowment lost 0.3 percent in fiscal 2012, which ended on June 30th, a huge contrast with 2011 when the average endowment gained 19.2 percent. Not only did the average endowment lose money, but it markedly trailed the S&P 500 stock index, which returned 5.5 percent for the year, including dividends.

LP Profile: Washington's Bruebaker: 'I Want Every One Of My GPs To Become Billionaires'

Gary Bruebaker reckons that without private equity, Washington State’s pension funds would be worth $6 billion less than they are worth today.

Trade Group Trumpets PE’s Role In Pension Returns

In a heated political season during which private equity has come under fire by candidates and critics who say it destroys jobs, private equity’s main trade group, the Private Equity Growth Capital Council, has been waging war in defense of the asset class, reminding people that the single largest investors in private equity are public pensions on which millions of public workers rely for their retirements.

FIVE QUESTIONS WITH... GREG FELDMAN, Managing Partner, Wellspring Capital Management

Incline Equity, PNC Spin-Out, Labors To Raise First Fund

Incline Equity Partners, a spin-out from PNC Financial Services, appears to be laboring to wrap up fundraising on its first stand-alone fund, Incline Equity Partners III LP, according recently filed data with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm, which spun out from PNC in 2011, raised $142.8 million as of the October filing, well shy of the $300 million goal that the firm set...

Stonepeak, Meridiam Show Infrastructure Optimism

Fresh off the record $8.25 billion October close for Global Infrastructure Partners’s sophomore fund, another player in the infrastructure space, Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners, is proving that the infrastructure investing trend isn’t benefiting just one firm.