Private Equity
The two firms have agreed to acquire 50 percent of SVG’s portfolio with just over a day and a half to go before shareholders must decide whether to accept a rival offer from HarbourVest.
3 min read · 04 October 2016
Invest Europe has introduced a guide – which includes advice from Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company, APG, SPF Beheer and Stichting Pensioenfonds TNO - to help pension funds investing in private equity better understand the asset class.
3 min read · 04 October 2016
Scott Jacobsen has left the US’s largest public pension fund after six years in its private investments team, PEI's sister title Secondaries Investor has learned.
1 min read · 04 October 2016
The $6.1bn university endowment’s investment office, which has more than a quarter of its assets in private equity, is considering a move to the Big Apple to source better candidates for its 20-person team.
2 min read · 03 October 2016
The close of the West Africa-focused fund comes amid a muted year of fundraising for Africa.
2 min read · 30 September 2016
The UK-focused firm extended the fundraising by six months to take account of investor uncertainty around the UK’s EU referendum.
2 min read · 29 September 2016
HVPE, a listed fund of funds that invests in and alongside HarbourVest-managed funds, transitioned to the main market of the LSE last year.
3 min read · 28 September 2016
Research from Investec shows more than 80% of private equity professionals have supported a philanthropic cause in the last 12 months.
2 min read · 28 September 2016
The growth equity firm expects to begin deploying capital from FTV V after fully deploying FTV IV, which is 85% invested.
2 min read · 26 September 2016
Private funds’ flat structures and entrepreneurial culture should make it easy for women to rise, argue panellists in London.
3 min read · 23 September 2016
