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3i CEO buys 2.5m sharesBorrows’ increased holding comes as the UK firm seeks to turn the page on a painful restructuring process.
- New Mexico Educational re-ups $100m with BlackRock
The $9.9bn pension will commit between $225m and $250m to private equity in 2013.
- PE-backed Moscow Exchange IPOs
The private equity-backed company’s listing will seek to bolster investor’s confidence in Russia’s capital markets – an uncertain endeavour, says Baring Vostok’s Costyashkin.
- FLAG approaches target for Fund V
The US-based fund of funds has raised nearly 75% of its target for Fund V, which will continue the firm’s strategy of investing in funds of less than $1bn in size.
- The evolution of secondaries
Different crises have led to evolutions of the secondaries market, none more so than the global financial crisis of 2008. The market today is more vibrant, diverse and integrated than ever before, write Jeff Hammer and Paul Sanabria (pictured).
- New Mexico Educational commits $40m to Marlin
The $9.9bn pension is increasing its private equity allocation to 10% and will commit between $225m and $250m to the asset class in 2013.
- JOBS Act marketing pitch results in fraud charges
A fund manager allegedly making wild claims about the JOBS Act’s ability to help generate guaranteed investor returns has been charged with fraud by SEC officials.
- New Jersey lands buyer for RE secondaries
The $75.6bn pension plan has agreed to sell a nearly $1bn portfolio of real estate fund interests to a new entrant to the secondary market.
- BlackRock: `Perfect storm' forming over Asia
The world’s largest money manager sees clouds forming over Asian markets and economies due to several macroeconomic factors.
- Doubling down
Last year, BlackRock’s private equity fund of funds group completed the transformational acquisition of reinsurer Swiss Re’s Private Equity Partners, doubling AUM at a stroke to around $15 billion. PEI asked managing directors Lynn Baranski (who ran the old BlackRock team) and Nathalie von Niederhäusern (who ran the old Swiss Re team) about the rationale for the deal – and how the combined business hopes to win.