Dunedin Capital Partners, a UK-based mid-market private equity firm, has made four new hires as it looks to build on a bumper year in 2006.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Bridgepoint has won the $343 million auction for GDT, an aerospace component maker, generating a big return for previous owner Stirling Square Capital Partners.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
UK private equity funds have delivered much stronger returns to investors than the public markets in both the short and longer term, according to new research. Pan-European buyout funds have been the main driver of this outperformance.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Vision Capital, which specialises in buying portfolios of investments from other private equity firms, has recruited Andrew Hawkins from mid-market buyout firm Palamon Capital Partners as a managing director of the business.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Sandra Robertson, previously a senior investment professional at the Wellcome Trust, has been appointed as the first Chief Investment Officer of Oxford University. Oxford wants to utilise her experience in alternative asset investing to boost returns.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
New research from Coller Capital shows that private equity investors are still keen to increase their allocations to the asset class, on the back of record returns. But with more money pouring into the asset class, concerns are growing that these returns may start to drop. PEO asked chief executive Jeremy Coller how LPs can avoid the pitfalls.
4 min read · 04 January 2013
UK firm ISIS Equity Partners has backed a management buyout of Williams Medical Supplies, which distributes drugs and equipment to primary care doctors. It plans to double the business’s turnover to more than £100 million within five years.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Although many financial planners still have very limited awareness of private equity investment trusts, increasing demand from retail investors and a concerted marketing push may be starting to turn the tide.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Permira, a buyout firm with various retail interests in Spain, is closing in on another big retail asset in the country. The firm is also reportedly mulling a bid for a UK IT services group.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Investors in private equity continue to boost their allocations, buoyed by record returns – but many fear the wall of money flowing into the asset class may have a detrimental effect.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
