Private Equity
The final, official demise of two alternative asset managers last week raises a number of important questions, but here's one especially occupying the minds of investors: how do you retain and reward the team charged with winding down a moribund manager's portfolio?
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
Yet again an energy-focused fund has defied what some placement agents have called the toughest private equity fundraising environment in history.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Netherlands-based Holland Private Equity has held a €77m interim close on its way to a target of €150m. The firm has also inked its first investment.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The global asset management and advisory firm aims to ramp up direct investments in Latin America, including clean energy infrastructure deals.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Former StanChart CEO and trade minister Mervyn Davies will advise the firm’s senior management team.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The directive – which could drastically impact non-EU managers – is in final stages of negotiations, according to the EU's markets commissioner.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
Troubled Icelandic fund KCAJ achieves a 3x multiple from the sale of outdoor clothing retailer Mountain Warehouse.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The New-York based investment firm is aiming to raise $1bn from institutions, endowments and family offices for investments in Brazil, Uruguay and Australia.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
ICG has become the latest investment firm to benefit from the bank’s programme of sales, picking up a €1.4bn portfolio of leveraged loans.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
