Private Equity
Ian Deas, former head of US secondaries at Pantheon, will help clients of the Sydney-based firm enter the US secondaries market.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
A team of three operations professionals led by Curt Miller will work on procurement for TPG portfolio companies.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Lynn Fordham, who took over as chief executive officer of SVG Capital in April last year, is no stranger to complex restructuring jobs. Toby Mitchenall met with her, SVG’s IR head Alice Kain and global head of investments Sam Robinson to discuss the company’s frantic recent past and uncertain future.
8 min read · 05 January 2013
5 min read · 05 January 2013
The government said the fund will ‘act as a vehicle for attracting and channeling capital flows to critical infrastructure’. The fund is an initiative championed by newly installed President Goodluck Jonathan and will be seeded with revenues from the country’s oil and gas sector.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Nigeria's growing pension plans - whose AUM are expected to hit $30bn by 2010 - for the first time may be allowed a private equity allocation.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Dutch firm Juneau is the latest firm to focus its investment strategy on female entrepreneurs
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Smaller vehicles face an uphill struggle in whipping up investor interest, according to Ian Barrass, portfolio manager of HPEQ, a listed European private equity trust in wind down-mode.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
In frontier markets plagued by corruption and other issues, there is still investor appetite for first-mover advantage.
5 min read · 05 January 2013
The firm has brought in former Laura Ashley veteran Hans Ouwendijk to run Vlisco, a Dutch maker of fabrics for West African clothing.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
