Private Equity
The $25bn pension system has named Dhvani Shah, head of private equity at the New York State Teachers’ Retirement System, as chief investment officer.
2 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
The US National Football League is making a play with private equity, planning to raise its own venture capital fund
2 min read · 06 January 2013
The specialist energy-focused firm has joined PAI Partners and Rhone Capital in the auction of French petrol pump company Trokheim, as owner Cognetas seeks to cap a tumultuous year by returning capital to its investors.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Newly created worldwide funds trade body ICI Global has hired Giles Swan from the UK’s Financial Services Authority to be its director of global funds policy.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
The $45bn retirement system, which allocated $1bn for private equity and venture capital in its 2011 investment plan, recently committed to KKR's mega-fund and Hony Capital's fifth fund.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
A majority of private equity executives surveyed expect acquisitions and exits to remain the same or fall during the second half of 2011, according to a recent study from EisnerAmper.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
The Virginia-based fund of funds has hired Gordon Hargraves from New York-based Rho Fund Investors, where he spent 12 years focusing on venture capital and smaller buyout funds.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Babson Capital Management has bolstered its mezzanine and private equity group by hiring Vik Thadani, who will help to boost its coverage of the Asia-Pacific region.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
Private equity group Neuberger Berman has closed its first fund of funds since spinning out of failed investment bank Lehman Brothers, raising $720m, of which half has already been deployed.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
