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  • Compliance and IR team up to meet LP demands
    Jenna Gottlieb- 5 January 2013

    Compliance and investor relations executives spoke at PEI’s Investor Relations & Communications Forum this week about how they were working together to expand LP communications and navigate the regulatory landscape.

  • Lexington set to close Fund VII on $6bn
    Christopher Witkowsky- 5 January 2013

    The secondaries firm, which began fundraising in early 2008, has closed on $5bn and is expected to hold a final close by 30 June.

  • New Mexico SIC hires LP Capital for private equity
    Christopher Witkowsky- 5 January 2013

    The $15bn oil and gas endowment had picked StepStone Group in February but could not come to terms with the firm.

  • San Diego seeks infrastructure consultant
    Cezary Podkul- 5 January 2013

    The $5.1bn San Diego City Employees’ Retirement System is searching for a consultant to roll out its 3% allocation to infrastructure, which translates to about $150m for the asset class.

  • Risks emerging
    PEI Staff- 5 January 2013

    Investors in emerging markets fear the impact of political instability; they should be more worried about manager selection

  • Emerging Markets Forum: Investors fear 'political risk'
    Christopher Witkowsky- 5 January 2013

    Emerging markets' political stability remains investors' biggest concern, according to delegates polled at PEI's annual emerging markets conference in New York.

  • New Mexico SIC to hire StepStone
    Christopher Witkowsky- 5 January 2013

    The $14bn oil and gas endowment has been slowly getting back into private equity investing after a placement agent scandal left its programme in limbo.

  • Wisconsin commits $265m to private equity
    Christopher Witkowsky- 5 January 2013

    The state’s board of investments, which oversees $83.8bn in assets, committed to Centerbridge Partners, Cortec Group, Excellere Capital and GTCR in the past few months.

  • Arizona makes $60m Asia bet
    Jenna Gottlieb- 5 January 2013

    Baring Private Equity Partners Asia is targeting commitments of $1.75bn for Baring Asia Private Equity Fund V.

  • Citigroup seeks buyers for CVC investments
    Hsiang-Ching Tseng- 5 January 2013

    The US bank has put a total of $570m of investments with buyout firm CVC Capital Partners for sale on the secondaries market, reportedly including $250m of investments in two CVC Asia funds.