UK’s £30bn railways pension manager appoints head of investment strategy
Mads Gosvig joins RPMI Railpen from the Danish pensions giant ATP Group this week
Mads Gosvig joins RPMI Railpen from the Danish pensions giant ATP Group this week
According to a survey by placement agency Eaton Partners, 64% of institutional investors said they won't make any changes to their allocations
What are companies owned by buyout groups doing to help?
Posted by Keith Gottfried and Sean Donahue, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, on Sunday, April 12, 2020 Editor's Note: Keith Gottfried and Sean Donahue are partners at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. This post is based on a
Both developed and developing countries urgently need large-scale counter-cyclical funding to help maintain economic activity
Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: New York-based global private markets investment firm StepStone Group, LP, closed its secondary private equity fund that invests on the secondary markets, raising US$2.1 billion of commitments...Article Link
Posted by William Chudd, Sartaj Gill, and David Schnabel, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, on Wednesday, April 8, 2020 Editor's Note: William Chudd, Sartaj Gill, and David Schnabel are partners at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.
Opalesque Industry Update - Ronald Lagnado joined risk-mitigation specialist hedge fund manager Universa Investments as a director in the firm 's research department. At CalPERS, Dr. Lagnado served as a Senior Investment Director responsible for
Powerlong Real Estate Holdings received huge support from investors for its $200m bond on Monday. The deal’s modest size and expectations of limited imminent supply from Chinese property credits helped the firm get away with
The new £500m funding facility would help venture capital-backed companies focused on digital, biotech and life sciences sectors
As companies look to bolster their balance sheets by raising equity, this might present an opportunity for private equity firms, which can do PIPE deals
The Advent Relief Fund will be distributed by the buyout group's local offices
Pandemic leads buyout firms to foster collaboration among the small and mid-size companies they own
Posted by Daniel E. Wolf, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, on Sunday, April 5, 2020 Editor's Note: Daniel E. Wolf is a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. This post is based on his Kirkland &
Andrew Crowston joins Searchlight from Novalpina Capital, where he worked on the firm’s private equity and special situations fund
The impact investing firm's $10m facility will offer ten loans of approximately $1m each with a duration of up to four years
Opalesque Industry Update - By: Donald A. Steinbrugge, Founder and CEO Agecroft Partners Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) are one of only a few hedge fund strategies that performed well throughout the market selloffs of 2000-2002,
GPs are negotiating amendments to limited partnership agreements relating to extensions of fundraising periods, according to Cebile Capital
Investor appetite for co-investments in recent years has given private equity firms an upper hand. However, an anticipated fundraising slowdown sparked by the pandemic promises to give an advantage to those investors still willing to
By: Robert Seber, Vinson & Elkins This Q&A attempts to answer some questions that may be on the mind of private equity sponsors who are nervous about the reactions of their LPs to the current
