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GSO seeks capital for distressed investmentsThe vehicle has been opened to investors from the firm’s distressed debt hedge fund, which was shuttered earlier this year.
- Apollo IX seeks to exploit European financial weakness
The fund will focus on acquisition and recapitalisation potential in distressed European financial institutions.
- Raise your operational game
Entries are now open for Private Equity International’s 2017 Operational Excellence Awards.
- Invest Europe’s new chairwoman to target climate, Brexit
Marta Jankovic, ESG and responsible investment specialist at Dutch pension manager APG Asset Management, replaces Blackstone’s Gerry Murphy at the industry body.
- KKR names ex-Blackstone MD as head of capital markets Japan
Go Yamashita’s appointment comes on the heels of KKR’s $9.3bn Asian fund close.
- First Round: New kid on the (next) block
True to the name, the design of Blackstone's innovation office in New York is anything but conventional.
- First Round: New kid on the next block
The design of Blackstone's innovation office in New York, true to the name, is anything but conventional.
- Blackstone’s Murphy: UK is too expensive
The senior managing director of the world’s largest private equity firm says investing in the country is ‘difficult at the moment’.
- Michigan tilts toward mid-market buyout funds
The US pension has also acquired stakes in mid-market debt funds on the secondaries market, documents from its latest investment committee meeting show.
- Private equity retail investors are shopping around
Alternative asset managers are tapping the small investor market through new channels to increase AUM and diversify investor bases.