Investor Commitments

John Vaske is establishing the Singapore government-owned investor as a key player in the North American market.

Details of the South Korean firm's last four flagships were disclosed in pension documents obtained by Private Equity International.

Private equity must outperform all other strategies for the pension plan to reach its assumed rate of return, says chief investment officer Dhvani Shah.

This week PEI is examining the Middle East – a region full of institutional capital. These are the five biggest that commit to private equity.

There is appetite for deals in the right sectors in the Middle East, which has had a volatile year with internal conflicts compounded by international tensions.

The five largest funds raised over the last five years gathered a combined $95.3bn. Here are the LPs that made hefty commitments to more than one of them.

Employees’ Retirement System of Texas and Teachers’ Retirement System of Louisiana are already over-allocated to private equity.

Hahn & Company III is expected to close by the end of June and has already amassed $2.1bn, US pension documents show.

The impact investor’s third fund is 75% larger than its predecessor and has already made five investments.

Fund XIII is 60% larger than its predecessor and was raised in a matter of months.