UBS Pension Fund related stories
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Ohio Schools collects $196m on secondaries salesThe $10.5bn pension worked with UBS to sell a portion of its private equity portfolio. The pension board last week approved more than $100m in commitments, including to Cinven's fifth fund.
- HSBC hires head for private equity push
HSBC has made ex-UBS banker Simon Jennings (pictured) head of private equity, a newly-created role, as it seeks to broaden its alternatives offering.
- PE trio in $3.3bn Warner Music exit
The record label backed by Bain Capital, Providence Equity Partners and Thomas H. Lee Partners is to be sold to Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries before the end of Q3 2011.
- CalPERS puts $800m of LP stakes for sale
The $226bn pension is selling a chunk of its private equity portfolio that includes a large amount of mega-fund holdings.
- BPEA signs off Fund V with $2.46bn
The Hong Kong-based firm hit its hard-cap in just five months, turning away $1bn in over-subscriptions.
- Quadrangle hires UBS exec
The firm has named former UBS executive Bret Oettmeier as a vice president, part of a larger management reshuffling.
- JC Flowers, heavyweight LPs in $1.8bn Brazil bank deal
The FIG-focused firm has teamed with GIC, CIC, Ontario Teachers' and others to acquire roughly a 19% interest in Brazil’s BTG Pactual.
- Apax in $1.8bn tertiary buyout
The firm’s $600m equity cheque for North American marketing agency Advantage Sales & Marketing will push Apax’s €11.2bn Fund VII to just over the 60% deployed mark.
- Interview: Up for the challenge
Permira co-heads Tom Lister and Kurt Björklund discuss how the European private equity powerhouse is faring in the post-crisis world.
- Infra funds in race for over €2.5bn of Euro gas assets
Antin Infrastructure, AXA Private Equity, Allianz, Goldman Sachs, Infracapital Partners, Macquarie and RREEF are among the funds thought to be involved in the bidding processes for four gas assets across Germany, Spain and Portugal.