Private Equity
The tenth largest pension fund in the US has reported a 5.6% fall in returns for real estate in 2008, but the sector still outperformed other asset classes.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The European private equity firm will combine German lab service provider Synlab with Austrian FutureLAB. Its last German deal was in December 2008.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The debt-laden transport company's independent board has said the revised offer undervalues the company.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The listed Permira investor is upbeat about its prospects, despite half-year results detailing a 5% drop in portfolio value and the unlikelihood of many distributions in the next 18 months.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
The captive private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group is picking up its investment pace as its parent is forced to slash jobs.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The mega-firm has added on a 600,000-hectare cattle ranch in North Queensland to its Consolidated Pastoral platform in an all-equity deal worth A$48m.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Public pensions from Oregon and New Jersey are among those aruing the proposed bank ownership rules, on which the FDIC votes this week, could 'slow the healing' of the financial sector.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
The French private equity is to acquire 15 French wind farms from Babcock & Brown International through its infrastructure fund.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The ‘supplemental’ fund was raised to make fresh investments for the firm’s $1.2bn Fund III.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The buyout firm's first US deal is for Everpower Wind Holdings, which it has purchased from renewable-focused Good Energies.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
