Norway's central bank, Norges Bank, which runs the country’s $409bn oil and gas fund, is assessing opportunities in environmentally focused private equity.
The KKR-spinout is looking to sign up state pensions to raise at least $1bn for a bank holding company that will buy failed financial institutions.
Three years after establishing its New York office, Christopher Witkowsky catches up with ATP Private Equity, one of Europe’s largest backers of private equity funds, as it looks to deploy dry powder.
The divergent directions of two US public pensions show that the fundraising environment in the US may not be as dead as some GPs think.
Landmark Partners offers LPs some liquidity equations to ponder for their asset allocation models.
The $34bn oil and gas endowment will commit $250m each to mezzanine funds run by Oaktree and Audax.
The pension also spent $9m for a stake in Crestview Capital Partner’s second fund.
The $72bn pension is splitting its $250m commitment to the firm’s eighth fund, putting $125m into sidecar vehicle that is targeting $2bn.
The $48bn pension made the commitment to Beach Point Capital’s credit opportunities fund. The pension made the investment from its $5.1bn credit strategies programme.
With some $22bn in uncalled commitments, the California pension will work to enter customised, low-fee partnerships and co-investment vehicles with select GPs.