Rod James
Rod James is a reporter with Secondaries Investor and also contributes to sister title PrivateEquityInternational.com. He is based in the London office. Prior to PEI, his roles included a stint as a freelancer covering fintech and transaction banking, CEEMEA capital markets reporter with EMEA Finance magazine, and editor of the Latin American political and economic risk team at IHS Global Insight.
The pioneers of the sub-asset class wouldn’t recognise some of today’s transactions as belonging to the same market.
The US rose, Europe fell and the UK stayed the same - the firms that make up the SI 30 by geography.
Private equity head David Layton will replace Christoph Rubeli as co-CEO of the Swiss alternative investment manager.
Stephen Can, co-head of Strategic Partners, will become executive chairman as the secondaries unit implements a succession plan.
The pension has changed the way it calculates investment limits and eliminated the category of 'direct investments'.
Incorporating private equity into defined contribution pension plans has proven a real test of the industry's imagination and will.
Granite Bridge Partners will invest across private equity, real estate, private debt and other alternative strategies.
Listed private equity, which fell out of favour after the financial crisis, has been quietly generating attractive returns in recent years.
CAM Private Markets bought the remainder of Deutsche Asset Management's primary business, the culmination of years of mergers, acquisitions and internal ructions.
Private equity and real estate secondaries funds raised $12.7bn in the first half, an almost 50% drop year-on-year.