In a significant move by the Chinese government, the country's National Social Security Fund has been allowed to invest in non state-backed domestic private equity funds.
The quoted private equity investor sees opportunities ahead and has prepared its balance sheet in anticipation of slowing returns.
The multi-strategy asset manager has tapped Deutsche Bank veteran Robert Goodman to head its growing alternative assets unit.
The Middle East investment firm's third private equity fund will allow foreign contractors in Kuwait to fulfill ‘offset obligations’ through an investment in the fund.
Given the identity of its guest speaker, a celebratory Guernsey Finance event was always likely to have a bitter-sweet outcome, writes Andy Thomson.
The majority of limited partners in private equity expect a 15-percent-or-better net IRR from private equity funds launched in the current environment, according to a report produced by PEI Media and trade association ILPA.
The globe's 30 largest firms in private equity real estate have raised more than $190 billion over the past five years, according to the latest numbers.
The energy-focussed private equity firm has nearly doubled the size of its previous fund in a three month period that involved ‘very little proactive marketing’.
The US venture capital association has teamed with a non-profit founded by Kleiner Perkins partners to invest between $10 million and $20 million in bettering the US education system’s quality of human capital.
The US pension committed to CVC’s fifth European fund and two real estate funds, months after reorganising its allocation structure and boosting its alternatives target to 28 percent.