Private Equity
Fewer China-headquartered PE funds reached final close last year as trade tensions, high valuations and concerns over tech exposure hindered capital raising efforts.
2 min read · 16 January 2020
If the fund reaches its €14.75bn target, it will be one of the largest European private equity funds ever raised.
1 min read · 14 January 2020
Gilles Dellaert will lead Blackstone Insurance Solutions, a part of the business with a lot of growth potential.
2 min read · 14 January 2020
Nicole Musicco has left the C$63bn Investment Management Corp of Ontario which helps public sector funds scale and gain access to private-market investments.
2 min read · 14 January 2020
Julia Leung, the Hong Kong financial body's deputy chief exec, says asset managers in Asia tend to focus more on governance than environmental concerns.
3 min read · 14 January 2020
Ahmed Badreldin, the firm's former head of Middle East and North Africa, says the North Africa Fund II has roughly doubled LPs' capital on exited investments so far.
3 min read · 13 January 2020
Any savings the Parisian firm makes will be put into environmental projects, says CFO Philippe Audouin.
2 min read · 10 January 2020
Four additional entrants have been welcomed into the HEC Private Equity Value Creation Hall of Fame, launched in 2017 by associate professor Oliver Gottschalg.
2 min read · 09 January 2020
Rising tensions between Washington and Tehran in the past week and Iran’s restrictive investment environment make private equity investments a challenging proposition.
3 min read · 09 January 2020
Carlyle Group portfolio company Accolade Wines is understood to have had 'limited' impact to its vineyards amid the country's worst wildfires in more than a decade.
4 min read · 08 January 2020
