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Louisiana picks Coller for secondaries

Coller Capital will manage the $9.3bn state workers retirement system’s $100m mandate to buy assets on the secondaries market.

2 min read · 06 January 2013

Cinven agrees double deal with new fund

The Hugh Langmuir-helmed firm has made a double acquisition using capital from its latest buyout fund, which has now raised €3.5bn en route to its €5bn target.

2 min read · 06 January 2013

Hirsch: LPs want to see GPs get rich on carry

The CIO of Hamilton Lane recently appeared on CNBC and offered a wide-ranging defense of the industry, including the idea that public pension systems are main beneficiaries of the asset class.

3 min read · 06 January 2013

Ohio Schools to commit up to $250m in FY2013

The $10.6bn School Employees Retirement System of Ohio plans to continue the process of building up its private equity portfolio in the next fiscal year, and may explore co-investment opportunities.

2 min read · 06 January 2013

Permira reallocates resources for Asian TMT push

Permira has sent one of its London-based partners, Robin Bell-Jones, to Hong Kong to lead a further push into the TMT sector in Japan, South Korea, China and South-East Asia.

2 min read · 06 January 2013

Searchlight in $585m cable merger

Searchlight Capital Partners will acquire a minority stake in international cable company Liberty Global following a merger with Puerto Rico-based cable business OneLink Communications.

1 min read · 06 January 2013

Senior Credit Suisse CLO manager joins 3i

Andrew Bellis, a senior CLO manager at Credit Suisse, has joined 3i Debt Management as a partner in a further sign of the group’s ambitious growth plans.

2 min read · 06 January 2013

Hamilton Lane targets $650m for secondaries

The global investment advisor’s previous secondaries vehicle collected $591m toward a $600m target in 2009.

2 min read · 06 January 2013

PEGCC: Private equity beats S&P 500

The industry group found that private equity indices and public pension portfolios consistently outperformed annualised S&P 500 returns in one, five and 10-year time horizons.

2 min read · 06 January 2013

Washington State bets big on Advent, Nordic

The Washington State Investment Board re-upped almost $800m to two of its more established fund managers: Advent International and Nordic Capital.

2 min read · 06 January 2013

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