Private Equity
The two groups will provide an initial $400m to invest in Turkey and the surrounding region, and may raise a further $600m next year.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Graham Thomas, who left Standard Bank in July when the South African lender was scaling back its principal investing business, has joined UK-listed RIT Capital Partners.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
The $26.2bn system has committed $750m to a ‘strategic partnership’ with TCW spin-out Crescent Capital Group. South Carolina previously set up a $759m separate account with Apollo Global Management in 2009.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
A look at some of the groups limited partners have been buzzing about
8 min read · 06 January 2013
Non-US developed market and emerging market private equity and venture capital outperformed the corresponding public markets in the first quarter, according to Cambridge Associates, which has made its private equity and venture capital data available to the public for the first time.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Private equity in Turkey has been on the up for a few years now, without ever quite taking off. But stars seem to be aligning in its favour.
3 min read · 06 January 2013
UK finance development institution CDC has committed $20m to one of the largest agri-business private equity funds in Africa. CDC hopes the move stimulates fundraising in the sector.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
AXA has hired Credit Suisse to explore a sale of its private equity arm, which could lead to a management buyout allowing the division's CEO, Dominique Senequier, to retain control.
3 min read · 06 January 2013
The bank’s private equity group has hired former partner at McKinsey & Company Peter Baird to head up StanChart’s Africa business, which has so far invested $300m in the continent.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Permira, for the first time, will include two kibbutzim, traditional agricultural communities in Israel, as co-investors on an investment in a farming technology company.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
