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StanChart appoints new co-head amid PE shake-upWei Zhu has replaced co-head of PE, Alastair Morrison, as three managing directors depart in a wave of cuts.
- KKR taps McKinsey executive for Brazil
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts’ new office in São Paulo will be led by Jorge Fergie, who worked on the private equity team at McKinsey & Company.
- TCV launches Fund VIII
Technology Crossover Ventures is back on the market with Fund VIII after breaking venture fundraising records with its $3bn 2008 vintage.
- 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.
- Asset Allocation: Robust but adaptable
Market weighted risk contribution portfolios offer a solution to many of the drawbacks of standard asset allocation models, write Philippe Jost and Ivan Herger
- Energy Future Holding’s uncertain future
Five years after being acquired for $48bn by KKR and TPG, the prognosis of Energy Future Holdings has grown bleak.
- Duke Street mulls stake sale to French GP
The UK firm, which turned to a deal-by-deal approach after abandoning plans to raise a fund last year, is understood to be in talks to sell part of itself to Tikehau.
- Generali plans to sell chunk of its portfolio
The Italian insurer is planning to offload a private equity portfolio which is valued at approximately €500m. The sale is in ‘advanced stages’, according to a source familiar with the matter.
- Altor targets €2bn for Fund IV
The Swedish firm aims to raise the same amount as its 2008-vintage Fund III.
- First Round: Control steak
As First Round crunched wearily into its fifth egg-and-cress sandwich of the week recently (simple, but it does a job; one empathises), a thought occurred.