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PSP to co-invest in BC Partners’ $1.6bn Keter deal

<p>Canada’s PSP Investments, which will acquire a minority stake in Israel-based furniture maker Keter, said in June that it had bought a 'significant minority interest' in BC Partners-owned Allflex.</p> <p> </p>

2 min read · 29 July 2016

Carlyle consumer &amp; retail star is first woman to co-lead buyouts

2 min read · 28 July 2016

Goldman sued by HK PE firm for ‘fraudulent betrayal’

<p>Private equity firm Primus Pacific has filed suit in New York accusing Goldman Sachs of hiding its incentive to ‘curry favour’ with Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak when Goldman was financial advisor to EON Capital, a local bank in which Primus was the largest shareholder.</p>

2 min read · 28 July 2016

Singapore’s GIC sees lower returns in the next decade

The $100bn state fund is bracing for a difficult investment environment, and said its prospects for returns on assets are ‘not as good as previously seen in the 1980s to the 2000s’.

2 min read · 28 July 2016

New Mexico re-ups $100 mln to Platinum

2 min read · 27 July 2016

3i buoyed by bargain retail

Dutch discount retailer Action – 3i’s largest investment – is now valued at 18 times earnings, up from 14 times at the end of 2015, but the outlook for European private equity returns is still uncertain.

2 min read · 27 July 2016

PKA: ‘No hurdle? That’s crazy!’

Christian Kvorning, an investment director at the €31.5bn Danish pension fund’s alternatives arm, on worsening fund terms, the need for a ‘healthy crisis’ and elusive US managers.

4 min read · 27 July 2016

Investors achieve outperformance via new funds

<p><em>Data from Boston-based investment advisor Cambridge Associates shows first- and second-time funds have often outperformed established funds.</em></p> <!--StartFragment--><p><em></em></p> <!--EndFragment-->

2 min read · 27 July 2016

LPs face allocation pressures in fundraising surge

3 min read · 26 July 2016

Duet and Nigerian asset manager to set up $400m fund

The public-private fund will see Duet open an office in Nigeria, as it provides credit and equity for six food and beverage companies.

3 min read · 26 July 2016

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