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Pantheon hires real assets VPs, promotes partner

The $34bn asset manager is bolstering its San Francisco office after raising nearly $1bn for infrastructure and natural resources in a year.

2 min read · 22 August 2016

Apollo seeks agribusiness for $2.8bn natural resources fund

Apollo is still building on its platform Pinnacle, which acquires and scales up agri inputs businesses, but will look opportunistically at other agribusiness assets with its latest fund.

1 min read · 19 August 2016

Apax goes for gold in Brazil

CIO Nico Hansen says he expects the firm to ‘add one or two Brazilian portfolio companies’ in the second half of the year.

3 min read · 17 August 2016

Carlyle: GPs and LPs have reached ‘equilibrium’ over fees

That’s because private equity firms are increasingly transparent with LPs about the fees they charge, Carlyle’s co-founder and co-CEO David Rubenstein said during a second-quarter earnings call with analysts.

3 min read · 27 July 2016

Listed private equity in Africa: a potential goldmine

As well as turbo-charging various new fund launches, Ethos’s new listed vehicle could open an untapped seam of African capital.

3 min read · 21 July 2016

Brexit dampens UK dealflow

Predictions for UK M&A in the second half of the year range from ‘lacklustre’ to ‘a write-off’.

4 min read · 30 June 2016

HarbourVest asserts allegiance to London

The firm has been in the city since 1990, before the Maastricht Treaty was signed, and plans to keep its EMEA hub there.

2 min read · 28 June 2016

Pavilion acquires Altius

London-headquartered Altius will be combined with LP Capital Advisers and rebranded Pavilion Alternatives Group.

3 min read · 28 June 2016

Illinois tops US PE investing in 2015

For the first time, Illinois ranked first in the amount of PE capital invested among all US states, with $94.64bn invested in the state last year, supporting the American Investment Council’s message that private equity has become ubiquitous in the US.

2 min read · 24 June 2016

PE Brexiteers hail ‘new era’ of economic growth

Industry veteran and erstwhile Tory donor Edi Truell called referendum outcome a ‘phenomenal result’.

3 min read · 24 June 2016

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