Private Equity
Montagu, BC Partners and MatlinPatterson are among the firms whose LPs have granted fund investment extensions.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
The Korea Investment Corporation has appointed Swiss-based alternatives firm Partners Group to help it invest in private real estate strategies
2 min read · 05 January 2013
A Massachusetts’s court ruling on hedge fund group Bulldog Investors could have implications for private equity GPs.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The pan-Asian private equity firm closed its prior fund on $1.52bn in May 2008.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Susan Flynn has left her role as co-CIO at fund of funds Hermes GPE.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The UK pension ‘lifeboat’ has hired Goldman Sachs, Pantheon, Hamilton Lane, Lexington, LGT, Partners Group and RREEF as advisors.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The National Bank of Kuwait subsidiary's acquisition of a 30% stake in Dunya Goz Group will help accelerate the company's growth.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Of the $179bn of assets managed last year by the world’s top 50 infrastructure funds, $109bn - or about 61% - correspond to mandates on behalf of pension funds, reports a survey by Towers Watson and the Financial Times. Macquarie manages the largest amount of pension assets of all alternative asset class managers, at $52bn.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
With valuations depressed, vendors in the UK’s lower mid-market are choosing to ‘stay plugged into the upside’ after initiating a sale, says Investec.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The Canadian private equity investors are at ‘advanced’ stages of due diligence for what would be the largest UK LBO this year.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
