Private Equity
The Universities Superannuation Scheme is also growing its co-investment programme, having made six private equity co-investments in 2010 totaling about £120m.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The MENA-focused firm, which has deployed 75% of its $200m debut fund, has sold its stake in APR Energy to one of its co-investors, Albright Capital Management, and Soros Fund Management.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
BC Partners’ €4bn first close was a ray of light for GPs at last week’s EVCA Investors’ Forum in Geneva, especially those among the large crowd getting ready to raise a new fund.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
The £2.6bn listed UK investment trust is quitting its private equity programme five years after its formation.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The Singapore-based fund of funds manager has parted company with its Indian parent and will continue to fundraise under its new name, Serasi Capital.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Limited partners last week warned GPs that fundraising in 2011 will be anything but easy unless firms can prove their ability to ‘generate outsized alpha’.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The Toronto-based pension fund’s private equity platform returned 22.2%, beating last year's returns but underperforming its benchmark.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Oregon’s public employees’ pension is reducing its commitment pace to private equity, but still has $2bn for the asset class this year.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
More than one-third of LPs say they have turned away GPs based on an insufficient grasp of environmental, social and governance issues.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Limited partners are ‘drilling down’ into the unrealised portfolios of GPs before committing capital, both with new and existing GP relationships.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
