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Washington State to hire Hamilton LaneHamilton Lane has been selected to take over as the Washington State pension plan’s private equity mandate from Capital Dynamics.
- CapDyn launches clean energy infra team
Headed by Novera Energy founder David Scaysbrook, the team will make direct investments in areas including wind farms and solar projects.
- Gatekeepers to Asian private equity
Continued keen interest in Asian private equity on the part of institutional investors has kept fund of funds managers very busy. But as economic growth weakens and capital deployment slows, the future holds some interesting challenges. Siddharth Poddar reports.
- Fund of funds consolidation ‘long overdue’
Senior figures from the fund of funds industry say that consolidation in the sector is inevitable.
- GI does £20m all-equity add on
Fresh from a $1.9bn fund close, the private equity and real estate firm has doubled the size of platform company Care Aspirations.
- SAS 70: The mother of all audits
Few private equity firms have undergone thorough and expensive SAS 70 audits. But as the asset class matures and firms, especially multi-platform players, become bigger and more diverse, this yearly check on controls might become the standard in the US.
- QUESTION & ANSWER: ‘Right team, strategy, structure’
GI Partners’ European managing director Mark Tagliaferri on the firm’s $1.9bn fundraise and strategy
- How fashions have changed
From the golden age to the age of pragmatism: private equity is an industry with evolving strategic priorities. PEI looks at how tastes have altered in five key respects.
- Study: Leverage accounts for one-third of returns
As buyout firms adapt to a low-leverage investment climate, research suggests that debt has never been the dominant driver of private equity returns.
- GI Partners collects $1.9bn for Fund III
The private equity and real estate firm has fallen short of its target, but raised 35% more than Fund II.