All Private Equity articles – Page 40
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Gwynedd scheme to put 5% into private equity
UK – The £741m (€1.1bn) Gwynedd council pension fund is looking to invest in private equity via fund of fund managers to help address its £129m deficit.
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Hermes’ Anson queries private equity fees
UK – Hermes Pensions Management chief executive Mark Anson has called for lower private equity fees, according to reports.
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KEVA, AlpInvest in Polish private equity move
POLAND – Finland’s KEVA and the Dutch pension fund-owned AlpInvest are among the institutional backers of a new Polish private equity fund.
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Horeca taps SPF for €40m private equity brief
NETHERLANDS – Pensioenfonds Horeca & Catering, the €2bn Dutch hotel and catering scheme, has awarded SPF Beheer with a €40m private equity mandate, as part of its 5% weighting target in the asset class.
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German institutions eye structured, private equity
GERMANY – Pension funds and insurers are planning more investment in alternatives this year and next, but will only award mandates for structured products and private equity, according to a new survey by German consultant Heissmann.
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Swedes and Dutch scrutinise private equity funds’ role
EUROPE – A week before general elections, the Swedish government has raised concerns about private equity fund Cevian’s investment approach in Volvo.
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Big UK schemes warm to private equity
UK – Representatives of some of the largest UK pension funds have come out in favour of private equity as an asset class – though they say a “new professionalism” is needed.
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Swedish regulator voices concern on private equity
SWEDEN - Sweden’s financial supervisory authority, Finasinspektionen (FI), has said it is worried about the rising levels of debt in private equity and venture capital companies and has called for greater transparency in their activities.
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Lane Clark parent gets private equity approach
UK – Alexander Forbes, the South African-based parent company of UK actuaries Lane Clark & Peacock, is in talks with private equity investors about a sale of the entire group.
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BIG forms private equity joint venture
IRELAND – Financial services outfit Bank of Ireland Group (BIG) has formed a joint venture with US private equity specialist Paul Capital Partners to provide private equity fund of funds products and advisory services to institutional and other investors worldwide.
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AP1 appoints three private equity managers
SWEDEN – The roughly SEK187.3bn (€20.2bn) buffer fund Första AP-Fonden, or AP1, has appointed three private equity managers as part of its diversification strategy into alternative investments.
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Germany mulls private equity tax - Handelsblatt
GERMANY – The German government is considering taxing the earnings of locally domiciled private equity funds, according to business daily Handelsblatt.
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Harrow tenders private equity, currency overlay
UK – The £400m (€587m) Harrow Pension Fund has tendered around £20m in private equity and £150m in currency overlay.
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NPRF commits €225 to real estate, private equity
IRELAND – The National Pensions Reserve Fund says it committed a €225m to real estate and private equity in the first quarter of 2006.
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Dutch funds buy into UK private equity firm
UK - The two largest Dutch pension funds, ABP and PGGM, have put an undisclosed sum into private equity firm West Private Equity via their AlpInvest vehicle.
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Germany’s BVV eyes real estate, private equity
GERMANY – BVV, a €17.7bn pension fund serving Germany’s financial services industry, plans to raise its exposure to real estate to at most 8% over the long-term and is mulling an initial investment in private equity.
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IPe-symposium: Industriens eyes EM private equity
DENMARK – Industriens Pension, €5bn Danish scheme, says it might look at entering the emerging market private equity arena.
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Oxfordshire tenders £20m private equity
UK – The roughly £499m (€730m) Oxfordshire County Council Pension Fund is tendering a £20m investment management mandate to manage specialist private equity fund of funds.
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Mercer warns on private equity returns
GLOBAL – Private equity investors should prepare for possible lower returns due to a lack of top-tier private equity fund managers and increasing institutional inflows, says Mercer Investment Consulting.
