Private Equity
The state’s $70bn pension is considering selling a big chunk of its private equity portfolio to pare down relationships and potentially 'kick-start' the programme that has been mostly inactive for two years.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The energy investor has raised its largest fund ever at $3.5bn after around nine months of fundraising.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The $14.5bn state endowment wants to pare down its private equity portfolio, which contains 150 funds from 80 GPs, to a size that its small staff can better manage. No word yet on the potential size of the sale.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
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1 min read · 05 January 2013
The two Asian sovereign wealth funds have teamed with US private equity firm JC Flowers, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and others to acquire roughly a 19% interest in Brazil’s BTG Pactual.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Advent’s first infrastructure investment in Brazil is also its largest investment in the country, according to a senior executive.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Growth capital investor General Atlantic has invested $200m for a minority stake in internet security firm Kaspersky Labs.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The emerging markets-focused private equity firm has promoted Sanjiv Aggarwal, who heads Actis' South Asian Infrastructure business, to partner.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
A report by Brazilian financial sector association ANBIMA says that the total volume of project finance activity grew by 431% last year, with energy representing the lion’s share of transactions.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The US pension has already committed nearly half of its $130m private equity allocation to JMI Equity, Hellman & Friedman and GTCR.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
