Private Equity
Washington DC-based NaviMed Capital is in the planning stages for its debut fund, which will make late stage venture capital and growth equity investments in healthcare and is understood to have a $200m target.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
The Los Angeles-based investment management firm has retroactively cut fees charged to the Treasury under the $29.4bn Public-Private Investment Program after investing just 16% of the capital committed to its fund.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Private Equity International recently caught up with Tuck Furuya, executive director at Japanese placement agent Ark Alternative Advisors, to discuss Japanese LPs’ attitudes toward private equity.
3 min read · 06 January 2013
A switch to a ‘first-inventor-to-file’ system, versus the existing ‘first-to-invent’ practice, means GPs need to be on the ball when it comes to portfolio companies applying for patents.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
The Board of Regents has bet nearly half of its $7.8bn endowment fund on alternative assets, which include private equity, real estate and energy investments.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
British venture capital firm Scottish Equity Partners has already raised more than its predecessor fund that collected £160m in 2006.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
The bank’s parallel Asia-focused private equity vehicles have struggled with fundraising, collecting only $42.5m since their joint filings in December.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
The private investment firm, which was founded by former Sun principal Michael Fieldstone in 2009, has brought in another former Sun principal to help lead the firm.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
Up to £2.3trn of assets could be ‘ring-fenced’ from bank’s riskier wholesale investment functions, including loans to private equity firms.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
The $146bn pension has named assistant controller of real estate Marjorie Tsang chief investment officer on an interim basis following the departure of its current CIO this week.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
