All Private Equity articles – Page 32
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NewsPrivate equity arm of Denmark's ATP launches €800m fund
Dearth of European opportunties forced private equity funds to invest solely in US last year, scheme says
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Pension funds to boost private equity investment in Africa, survey shows
Funds seen favouring African energy, power/utilities sectors in hunt for higher returns
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Features
Two sides to private equity
A recent NBER working paper suggested that private equity delivered absolutely no risk-and-cost-adjusted return beyond what is available in public markets. Anthony Harrington takes a closer look at this surprising finding
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NewsSwedish private equity fund AP6 returns 9.2% over 2013
Profits from mature companies offset losses on new firms
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NewsPrivate equity helps offset fixed income slump at Keva, Finnish state pension fund
New managing director at Keva says overall returns should be considered ‘reasonable’
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Partners Group teams up with Mizuho on private equity, infrastructure
Swiss investment manager to offer products to pensions market in Japan
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Asset Class ReportsAllocations to private equity increasing at European pension funds
Research shows growing divergence between European, US investors
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Lower private equity returns structural, say European LPs
Coller Capital Barometer suggests pension funds have finished building specialist teams
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Ilmarinen to ramp up private equity, real estate investment
Finnish pensions firm looking for infrastructure investments in Finland, overseas
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ESG 'crucial' to many private equity-funded companies – OFI
GLOBAL – Survey shows small, mid-cap companies keen to tackle ESG issues.
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Key influencers at pension funds 'sceptical' of private equity
GLOBAL – Coller Capital’s latest Global Barometer finds entrenched resistance to asset class.
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NewsBlackRock to acquire private equity property firm MGPA
GLOBAL – Asset manager says deal to advance growth strategy in Asia-Pacific, Europe.
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NewsPantheon hires Verizon pensions innovator to head private equity for DC
NORTH AMERICA – Private equity fund of funds aimed at 'mini-DB' 401k default strategies.
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Asset Class Reports
Private Equity: Is mega back?
With the high-yield market on fire and household names being plucked from public markets, Joseph Mariathasan asks if we are heading back to the heady days of the 2006 ‘mega’ buyout
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Asset Class Reports
Private Equity: Bridging the gap
Martin Steward meets the co-founders of OceanBridge Partners, whose flexible new model aims to maximise the potential of private equity investing
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Features
Grappling with private equity
Of the 24 respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey that hold private equity investments, 15 were happy with the number of individual fund commitments that their fund had in its portfolio. Of these, four felt they needed to re-balance the strategies. A Danish fund commented: “Investment costs have ...
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IP Asia
Private Equity - It’s all in the pricing
Betty Kotevski examines the opportunities Australia’s private equity market
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Special Report
Special Report – Asian Private Equity
Conditions underfoot are heavy for private equity investors, both in China and elsewhere in Asia, writes Simon Osborne.
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Asset Class Reports
Private Equity: Palico: Online dating for LPs and GPs
As our main feature reveals, there are more than a few private equity limited partners (LPs) facing resource problems as the industry fragments and spreads beyond the traditional centres of North America and Western Europe, at the same time as disrupted investment cycles clog up the cash-distribution and fundraising pipeline. LPs are struggling to keep abreast of new managers and markets, or even stay on top of their increasingly crowded and complex portfolios.
