The $37bn retirement system launched its co-investment programme last year as part of a private equity portfolio shake-up, which included plans to sell older investments and increase its exposure to international funds and secondaries.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
The $78bn retirement system allocated around $550m to two private equity funds, including forming a new relationship with emerging markets giant Actis.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
The Chip Schorr-led firm has brought on former colleague Michael Stephenson from Citigroup Japan to focus on software and services investments from the firm’s New York office.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Weeks after announcing Japan’s largest buyout in two years, the private equity giant is dropping $487m on medical response technology provider Physio-Control.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Marlon Sahetapy started at the firm’s Singapore office in October, where he oversees fundraising and investor relations in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
The firm’s European co-chair is stepping down to concentrate on deals, while other high profile partners are leaving or moving to part-time as the firm shifts its European focus in response to the continent’s volatile marketplace.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
The $45bn retirement system, which allocated $1bn for private equity and venture capital in its 2011 investment plan, recently committed to KKR's mega-fund and Hony Capital's fifth fund.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
A majority of private equity executives surveyed expect acquisitions and exits to remain the same or fall during the second half of 2011, according to a recent study from EisnerAmper.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
OMERS Ventures, which launched in October, has hired Howard Gwin to help target early stage and growth investments in the North American media, technology and telecom companies.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Despite $385bn in dry powder, a weak exit environment does not bode well for private equity managers stuck with unrealised, pre-crisis assets, according to Vestar founder Norman Alpert.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
