Private Equity
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
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
Turnaround-focused Kelso Place has hired Philip Dougall as the ninth member of its investment team as it gears up for eurozone crisis fallout.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
The European private equity firm is closing its UK and German operations, prompting the departure of Jonathan Musselwhite and Charles St. John.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
The Swiss private markets manager has invested in Sorgenia France, a French wind energy joint venture established by KKR and Italian energy company Sorgenia in June.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Charles Robinson was named the firm’s first head of investor relations. He joins from HSBC Global Asset Management, where he worked as the global head of alternatives distribution.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
Washington is once again – inevitably – focused on carry tax as a revenue raiser. Private equity professionals would have welcomed a more nuanced approach.
3 min read · 06 January 2013
Spain’s private equity community is anticipating a more business-friendly government as the conservative People's Party is expected to dethrone the Socialists from power in November.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Hamilton Lane has opened an office in Rio de Janeiro led by Felipe Caldas, who last year had been named Capital Dynamics' Brazil head. Former CapDyn executive Ricardo Silva also joins him.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
