Private Equity
China Mining United Fund, based in Beijing, plans to invest in both onshore and offshore natural resources companies.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The distressed investment specialist is reportedly in talks to buy a controlling stake in troubled Irish housebuilder McInerney.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Former AXA Private Equity executives Daniel Benin and Barthelemy de Beaupuy have formed Committed Advisors, which also recently hired two more ex-AXA professionals.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The $94bn pension fund has invested alongside KKR, Warburg Pincus and Apollo in the past nine months as it expands its co-investment programme.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The Toronto-based firm has approached the California Public Employees' Retirement System for a commitment.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The $14bn system revealed a placement agent, Glen Sergeon, with a connection to its former CIO, did more work than any other agent since 2004. The pension found no evidence of pay-to-play activities.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
In the latest sign that the investment banking sector is withdrawing from managing private equity real estate funds, Bank of America Merrill Lynch has agreed a deal to hand over the management of the assets in its $2.65 billion Asian Real Estate Opportunities Fund and other real estate assets to The Blackstone Group.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The firm wants to take advantage of new pools of capital, Suzanne Donohoe, head of KKR's client and partners group, told PEO in an exclusive interview.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
Marco Sodi left the mid-market firm in the spring after it ‘deferred’ fundraising on a European fund that had collected $105m.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The New York City public pension system has terminated its $75m relationship with the Emerald Infrastructure Development Fund, a Northern Ireland-focused fund run by a rock salt company executive. The fund has since been dissolved, according to a spokesperson.
4 min read · 05 January 2013
