Private Equity
The $55m Mexico-listed fund raised by WAMEX – which will compliment a traditional fund, targeting $65m – is the first in a wave of expected offerings allowing domestic pensions to invest in the asset class.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The pension’s $200m commitment to Hellman & Friedman, is evidence that it plans to continue to back private equity funds despite an ongoing pay-to-play investigation.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
A key-man clause on the firm's $692m Fund II was triggered when the head of AIG Investments’ Brazil team left. The unit has decided to terminate the investment period.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
A member of the pension said Gary Bland had been found to have pressured investment firms to hire certain placement agents.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
Gustavo Eiben will oversee the emerging markets-focused firm’s expanding investor base in the region.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has introduced legislation with several state senators to jettison the state’s single trustee model in favor of a board of trustees.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
The founder of private equity advisory firm Aldus Equity, Saul Meyer, has admitted to having knowingly engaged in pay-to-play corruption in New York and New Mexico.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
James Green has left the McLean, Virginia-based firm where he was managing director and co-global head of capital markets and client relations.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
EMX Capital will manage the $134m Mexico fund Carlyle closed in 2007.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Starwood Capital’s latest global real estate fund has received $100m in commitments from two US pension funds, including New Mexico’s $13bn scheme and the $15.8bn Louisiana Teachers fund. New Mexico also committed a further $65m to private equity and real estate funds.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
