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Strategic Partners collects $7.5bn for Fund VIIThe Blackstone unit raised the hard-cap on its latest fund and is expected to hold the final close by the end of January, Secondaries Investor has learned.
- Predictions revisited
At the end of last year we made five predictions for 2016; let’s see how we did…
- Texas Municipal falls short of 2016 pacing target
The Texas Municipal Retirement System approved nearly $380m for private equity commitments so far this year, short of its $600m target.
- SEC enforcement director to leave at year end
Andrew Ceresney, who has been the head of the SEC's largest division for nearly four years, is at least the 7th person to leave the regulator since the 8 November US presidential election.
- Schwarzman leading Trump advisory group
The Blackstone co-founder is chairing the ‘President’s Strategic and Policy Forum,’ a 16-member group of business leaders who will advise the President-elect.
- Three questions on new NSSF head Lou Jiwei
What the private equity industry can expect from the man charged with stewarding China’s nearly $300bn National Social Security Fund.
- 15 years of PEI: Then and now
The contents page of our first issue contains many topics that will be familiar to our readers today. We look back at what we said then, and examine how the industry has moved on in the intervening 15 years.
- Bradley nears first close on ‘fund of firms’
Morgan Stanley veteran Mark Bradley is likely to hold a first close on GP Interests – which will buy stakes in established private equity firms – in January 2017.
- Juniper closes debut institutional fund on $500m hard-cap
The fund launched in the first quarter of 2015 and will target the mid-market upstream oil and gas investment opportunities resulting from the energy market dislocation.
- Fitch downgrades Carlyle amid weaker earnings
Carlyle’s $100bn fundraising plans will hit the firm’s fee-related earnings in the short term, according to the rating agency.