Private Equity
The search for a new chief executive has ended with the appointment of Simon Walker, a communications specialist and one time secretary to HM The Queen. He is also an adviser to the government on red-tape reduction.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
General Atlantic, the global growth investor, is looking to the emerging BRIC markets and beyond in the 12 months ahead. Rene Kern, a managing director at the firm, spells it out.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Andrew Strauss has left his role as co-manager of Riverside's US funds in order to work in the firm's transactions business. Partner Suzy Kriscunas will succeed him.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The head of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Claude Lamoureux, will retire in December and be replaced by Jim Leech, senior vice president of the pension’s private equity arm.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Angelo Gordon has bolstered its private equity group before raising its fourth private equity fund, which is targeting $700 million, and a “reserve fund” aiming for $200 million.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Angelo Gordon has bolstered its private equity group before raising its fourth private equity fund, which is targeting $700 million, and a “reserve fund” aiming for $200 million.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The Helsinki-listed alternative asset manager has beefed up its management group and created new internal services and investor services units.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Tim Bunting, the former Goldman Sachs banker, has taken on a full-time role with venture firm Balderton, after working with it in its previous incarnation as Benchmark Capital Europe.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The firm’s co-presidents, Sam Mencoff and Paul Finnegan, have reportedly taken the reins from fellow co-founder John Canning in a planned succession.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The head of BlackRock investment management firm, spun out of The Blackstone Group in 1992, has stepped down as president—reportedly to raise a $1 billion fund for private equity, hedge fund and real estate investments.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
