Private Equity
Jay Park, a managing director at BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, talks in this video about the firm’s strategy for investing in private equity and venture capital funds. The key issue, he tells interviewer Danielle Fugazy: “Is this a manager we want to work with?”
1 min read · 17 May 2013
Daniel Feder, senior investment manager at Covariance Capital Management, talks in this video about his firm, an “outsourced CIO” that operates under the umbrella of pension giant TIAA-CREF to provide professional invesment services to smaller endowments, foundations and other investors. The firm, with $1 billion under management, has a 10 percent allocation to private equity, Feder says, about equally allocated to venture capital and buyouts and almost equally allocated between U.S. and international managers.
1 min read · 08 May 2013
Private equity firms are always looking for juicy investments to sink their teeth into. Increasingly, restaurant chains are at the top of the menu.
5 min read · 06 May 2013
Ares Management LLC, an investment firm with some $59 billion in credit and private equity assets, is speaking to investment banks about an initial public offering in the United States, a person with knowledge of the matter told sister news service Reuters. If Ares proceeds with an IPO, it would be the latest in a string of U.S. stock market listings by alternative asset managers following public offerings last year from The Carlyle Group LP and Oaktree Capital Group LLC.
2 min read · 03 May 2013
“Super LP” Chris Douvos, a managing director at Venture Investor Associates, talks in this video about the firm’s approach to fund-of-funds investing. Despite the name, the firm invests not only in VC but also growth equity and buyouts, a segment where Douvos says it favors lower-mid-market managers.
1 min read · 02 May 2013
Megan McElroy, vice president at North Sky Capital, talks in this video about the Minneapolis firm’s fund of funds program, which is focused these days on cleantech and lower mid-market buyouts.
1 min read · 25 April 2013
Lincoln Singleton, a managing director at boutique mid-market investment bank Evercore Partners, talks in this video about his work as a placement agent in the firm’s private funds group.
1 min read · 18 April 2013
Praful Mittal, a partner at Chicago-based McNally Capital Partners, talks in this video about his firm’s approach to serving family offices through its investments in private equity, primarily buyouts, along with its direct investments and co-investment strategies.
1 min read · 11 April 2013
Five limited partners reported that they invested at least $250 million in individual funds during during the first quarter, according to research by Buyouts magazine.
1 min read · 08 April 2013
Exiting by U.S.-based financial sponsors has been laid-back during the first three months of the New Year. By the numbers, exits both by mergers and acquisitions and those by initial public offerings have been slow.
4 min read · 08 April 2013
