Private Equity
Former Towerbrook Capital Partners managing director John Sinik has launched a debt fund management business which is hoping to raise at least €300m for its maiden vehicle.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
Steve Belgrad has resigned to take up a senior position at the US asset management arm of insurance, savings and investment group Old Mutual.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The firm is bolstering its investment teams in all three of its European offices as a signal of its commitment to the central and eastern European region, says partner Zbigniew Rekusz.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
William Monagle resigned from NEPC on 30 April after about seven years at the firm.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Mid-market player Blackford Capital is moving shop from California to Grand Rapids, Michigan to expand the firm’s footprint in the Midwest.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The private equity industry is getting smaller, including fund sizes, deal sizes and fee sizes, according to Carlyle co-founder David Rubenstein at the annual Milken Institute Global Conference.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Seasoned Africa investor Andrew Brown will oversee Emerging Capital Partners’ record-setting $613m Africa-focused fund as its first-ever chief investment officer.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has made permanent a ban on elected officials, lobbyists and placement agents from doing business with New York’s pension fund.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
John Breen, head of funds and secondaries at CPPIB, also serves as vice chair at ILPA. It's unclear whether he will leave ILPA, which would be a 'huge loss', says ILPA executive director Kathy Jeramaz-Larson.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The Victorian Funds Management Corporation, which has existing private equity assets worth about A$1.2bn, has made redundant its private equity co-heads as it shifts focus to infrastructure investments.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
