All Private Equity articles – Page 41
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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.
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UK high streets a magnet for private equity
UK - Private equity investment in the UK’s high street continues to be robust, despite concerns that consumer spending is about to fall.
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Bexley set for private equity, hedge fund tender
UK – The £360m (€525.5m) Bexley Council Pension Fund will launch a tendering process in the next week for its first private equity and hedge fund mandates amounting to 5% of the scheme’s assets.
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FRR tenders €1.5bn private equity in four lots
FRANCE – The Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites, the French Pensions Reserve Fund, has issued a tender for its first ever private equity programme - €1.5bn in four lots, or just under 6% of its total portfolio.
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ABP, PGGM award €11bn private equity mandate
NETHERLANDS – ABP and PGGM, the two largest Dutch pension funds, have awarded a new €11bn private equity mandate to AlpInvest.
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FRR to hold private equity informational meeting
FRANCE – The Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites, the French Pensions Reserve Fund, is to hold a meeting for asset managers later this month about its private equity RFP.
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Horeca in €100m private equity move
NETHERLANDS - The €2bn Dutch hotel and catering scheme, Pensioenfonds Horeca en Catering, has awarded two €50m private equity mandates to Goldman Sachs Private Equity Group and HarbourVest Partners.
