The Teacher Retirement System of Texas is intent on setting its own agenda when it comes to private markets deals.
10 min read · 15 January 2013
A wave of incoming regulations is helping fuel activity in the secondaries market, which for some GPs means big compliance headaches.
8 min read · 15 January 2013
The $37.3bn pension fund will invest 11% of total assets in private equity in 2012.
1 min read · 15 January 2013
Grey hair, no hair, connected or just plain smart, senior specialist consultants are in demand by institutional investors. PERE Magazine, June 2011 issue
10 min read · 15 January 2013
Japan-focused private equity firms expect plenty of opportunities for investment – but attracting foreign and domestic limited partners remains a challenge.
6 min read · 15 January 2013
Michael Huber is quietly guiding TMT-focused Quadrangle back from the brink of chaos. But raising a Fund III remains far from certain as the firm focuses on investor relations and portfolio management, finds Christopher Witkowsky.
9 min read · 15 January 2013
Peruvian firm Nexus Group has beat its target for its first international institutional fund, showing LP appetite for the region can overcome scepticism of new managers.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
While performance-based carried interest will be paid out to even the worst-performing funds which invested in the run-up to the industry's golden era, those raised during the boom may fail to pay any carry at all, new research shows.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
They have many names: 'Family Enterprises', 'Family-backed Investors', 'Family Offices' and 'Family funds under management'. The credit crunch has resulted in major changes to the way large families who run their own investment vehicles think and how they invest their money, writes Mike Reid, managing partner of Frog Capital.
4 min read · 15 January 2013
Limited partners have been slowly opening up to new VC relationships now that the industry has shrunk and top managers are back to courting investors
9 min read · 15 January 2013
