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Hirsch: ‘Mega-fund phobia’ partly driving emerging marketsEmerging markets private equity funds can be valuable in the portfolio, but some limited partners are attracted to this opportunity for the wrong reasons, Hamilton Lane CIO Erik Hirsch told delegates at the 2008 Emerging Markets Private Equity Forum in New York.
- Fifty finest
Private Equity International is proud to present its selection of markettransforming individuals who give shape and character to private equity today. The list, which is not a ranking, is ordered alphabetically.
- NJ pension proposes $850m in PE commitments
The New Jersey Division of Investment has proposed commitments to four private equity funds following an increase in allocation limits for alternatives.
- KKR crescendo
For most of its 30 years in business, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has been a dominant force in the private equity market. Following some intense introspection and retooling in the late 1990s, the New York-based firm is poised to again become the industry's heavyweight champion as it expands product lines, offices and head count around the world. David Snow takes a measure of the firm that invented, and reinvented, the big buyout.
- Kohlberg hits hard cap on $1.5bn buyout fund
Nearly double the size of its predecessor, the fund has already been 20 percent invested by the firm co-founded by Jerome Kohlberg, a founding partner of KKR who effectively retired from the private equity industry in 1994.
- Behrman hires former US military top brass
Peter Pace, formerly the US' highest-ranking military official, has joined the New York- and San Francisco-based private equity firm as an operating partner.
- Private equity returns 41 percent for Pennsylvania
The state’s employee retirement system last year enjoyed twice the return of the median return for large US public pensions, thanks in part to its top performing asset class, private equity.
- Roark closes second fund on $1bn
Closure of Roark Capital’s latest mid-market fund more than triples the US firm's assets under management.
- Carmel Ventures closes third fund on $235m
The tech-focused Israeli firm has rounded up commitments from a heavy-hitting list of LPs, including CalPERS, HarbourVest, Portfolio Advisors and Goldman Sachs.
- Lightyear lines up Lloyd’s membership for its first UK acquisition(4)
Lightyear Capital has acquired the UK operations of German insurance company Württembergische Versicherung, after ensuring the company could become a member of Lloyd’s of London.