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KKR to reward eco-friendly portfolio companiesThe award is part of the firm’s Green Solutions Platform, which measures 30 portfolio companies' efforts to manage their environmental impacts.
- Adams Streets' Smits to lead Newton
Ex-Adams Street Partners CIO Hanneke Smits, who established and grew Adams Street’s business in Europe and Asia, replaces Helena Morrissey at the London-based investment manager.
- China’s CreditEase mulls investments in KKR, Blackstone
The Beijing-based financial services company, which is raising a $200m private equity fund, will be targeting investments in North America and Europe as well as Asia.
- KKR to exit Australia’s GenesisCare
Having grown GenesisCare’s business in Europe through acquisitions and partnerships, KKR is selling its 45% stake in the Sydney-based healthcare provider to China Resources Group and Macquarie Capital in a deal that reportedly values the company at A$1.7bn.
- KKR: US investors increasingly keen to see progress on ESG
European LPs aren’t the only ones concerned with environmental, social, and corporate governance issues—these days, US LPs are increasingly keen to know what buyout giant KKR is doing to be part of the solution, KKR’s ESG director Elizabeth Seeger tells Private Equity International.
- KKR, Warburg invest in Indonesian motorcycle-hailing app
The two private equity heavyweights, investors in Jakarta-based GO-JEK’s latest financing round, are riding a wave of deals in Asia’s fast-growing on-demand transport services sector.
- Listed private equity in Africa: a potential goldmine
As well as turbo-charging various new fund launches, Ethos’s new listed vehicle could open an untapped seam of African capital.
- KKR’s Kravis: Beware the Brexit black swans
Brexit will bring opportunities in Europe, but London will suffer, said the KKR founder.
- Ethos listing heralds new growth phase
The South African powerhouse is using a listed feeder vehicle as a springboard for its transition from a pure-play private equity house to sub-Saharan Africa’s leading alternative asset management platform.
- Kravis: PE has done a ‘poor job’ for women in the industry
That’s why diversity is a ‘high priority’, Henry Kravis said at the Women’s Foundation in Hong Kong, and so far KKR has managed to triple the number of women in senior roles in the last three years.