Private Equity
The global investment advisor has added Jim Strang, former head of fund investment at Dunedin Capital Partners, as a principal in London.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
The Canadian financial institution, with $151.7bn in assets, is moving in on US energy transport, acquiring a 16.5% stake in a US oil and gas pipeline from ConocoPhillips.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
Cesar Baez, who launched Centinela in 2006, has left the firm. Baez once ran Hicks Muse Tate & Furst’s Latin America fund that had exposure to Argentina prior to the country’s default.
3 min read · 06 January 2013
Making good, consistent returns in emerging markets is still hugely challenging. But with developed markets stagnating, these fast-growing economies are becoming increasingly difficult for private equity investors to ignore.
3 min read · 06 January 2013
African countries such as Egypt and Nigeria hold many attractive investment opportunities, Pontefract managing partner James Seymour said at PEI's emerging markets conference in London.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
The firm is understood to be pre-marketing its third vehicle, which will target slightly less than Wayzata’s second fund that raised $3.3bn in 2008.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
CIO Larry Schloss (pictured) and private equity head Barry Miller are working to re-position the $120bn system's programme to commit more money to fewer managers.
3 min read · 06 January 2013
The firm purchased aluminium and plastic films producer Terphane in 2010 through its seventh fund, which raised €680m in 2009.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
The firm will try and capitalise on opportunities created by Colombia’s growing economy and the easing of local regulatory pressure on private equity.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
The Brazilian asset manager has committed its entire energy-focused private equity fund, which has not yet reached final close, to numerous hydro and wind-power projects in Brazil.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
