California Public Employees' Retirement System related stories
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IT investor draws $100mAmerican River Ventures, a Sacramento, California venture capital firm, has raised a fund to invest in early stage information technology companies.
- ArcLight closes $1.6bn energy fund
Boston-based ArcLight Capital Partners plans to use its Fund II to invest in the coal, natural gas, power generation, and electric and gas transmission and distribution industries.
- US fund in debut UK MBO
CalPERS-backed GI Partners has invested £10.8m in the management buyout of NHP Healthcare Partnerships, the fund’s first UK transaction.
- Past performance: your best guide to the future
The launch of the first edition of the Private Equity Performance Monitor reveals the performance of the global private equity industry. Mark O’Hare of Private Equity Intelligence outlines one of the key findings from analysis of the data contained within: that past performance can indeed be a good guide to future performance in private equity.
- Alta oversubscribes funds on $475m
The San Francisco venture capital leader closes both an early-stage and a late-stage fund, surpassing an aggregate target of $400m.
- Utah buyout fund draws $250m
Sorenson Capital, based in Salt Lake City, will invest in small- to mid-sized companies in the Western US with the help of a former American football star.
- CalPERS in $100m PIPE deal
The California pension is backing a vehicle sponsored by consultant Pacific Corporate Group that will buy preferred shares in publicly traded WebMD, an online health services information company.
- CalPERS passes $5bn profit milestone
The California pension giant will inform its board that the alternative investment group has received its five billionth dollar in cash profits. ‘Look out $10 billion, here we come. . .’
- Falconhead snares auction company
The New York firm acquires National Powersport Auctions, which deals in used motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles and personal watercraft auctions.
- Deutsche sells more property assets
US pensions CalPERS and CalSTR are among the institutions backing a new real estate opportunity fund organised to purchase a $1.2bn portfolio of direct property investments from Deutsche Bank.