Private Equity
David C. Turner, who seven years ago started a private equity portfolio for the Guardian Life Insurance Company of America and led its growth to more than $1 billion, is stepping down effective May 30. Turner will hand the reins to Managing Director Maurice Gordon. (See video interview of Maurice Gordon from June 2014 here.)
2 min read · 15 April 2014
University of Texas Investment Management Co’s Bruce Zimmerman said Carlyle Group’s recent hiring of JPMorgan’s Michael Cavanagh marks an example of private equity firms becoming bigger and more institutionalized. (See related video here.)
2 min read · 27 March 2014
Steve Gelsi, senior editor at Buyouts, appeared on Reuters Trading at Noon on March 7 to discuss the deal by Cerberus Capital Management to take Safeway Inc private in a deal valued at about $9.4 billion.
1 min read · 07 March 2014
Peter Nolan, Managing Partner at Los Angeles-based Leonard Green & Partners, discusses his firm’s approach to investing in companies, including Whole Foods, J. Crew and The Container Store, and warns that 2014 will be a challenging year.
1 min read · 28 January 2014
Greg Brenneman, Chairman of CCMP Capital Advisors, looks back on a year in which his firm sold about $2 billion of equity from its portfolio companies
1 min read · 28 January 2014
Greg Walters, Principal at Pomona Capital, discusses how his firm approaches investing and its strategic partnership with the ING Group
1 min read · 27 January 2014
Tom Gladden, Partner at Adams Street Partners, says the secret of his firm’s success is that all the partners have direct experience of running a company.
1 min read · 27 January 2014
John Clark, managing director of Performance Equity Management, discusses his firm’s approach to private equity investing, which includes a direct investing program that has paid off since its launch in the early 1990s.
1 min read · 27 January 2014
In this video from Buyouts Texas, Erik Hirsch, the chief investment officer at Hamilton Lane, talks about trends affecting the private equity industry.
1 min read · 16 January 2014
Chrissie Pariso, senior portfolio manager, private equity, at Exelon Corp, talks in this video about how her employer — one of the nation’s largest nuclear power plant operators and an electrical utility with operations in Chicago, Philadelphia and Baltimore — invests in private equity.
1 min read · 17 July 2013
