The appointment of Robert ‘Bo’ Ramsey to replace Bob Clone as chief of private equity at Indiana Public Retirement System raises yet more questions about what’s going on with its private equity programme – questions that the pension fund seems disappointingly reluctant to answer
4 min read · 15 February 2013
Vietnam’s macroeconomic woes have so far discouraged private equity investment, but renewed activity suggests firms are reassessing the opportunity. By Clare Burrows
3 min read · 15 February 2013
A rush to invest remaining CLO capital and improved leveraged loan markets will aid buyout activity in the first half of 2012, predicts debt advisory group Marlborough Partners in its latest report.
2 min read · 01 February 2013
The firm posted its strongest overall year since going public, returning $3.5bn to investors at an average return multiple of 2.1x, but will likely put more capital to work in the US than Europe in 2013.
3 min read · 15 February 2013
Recent examinations of private equity firms are helping regulators understand the complex world of private equity, according to speakers at PEI’s CFOs and COOs Forum 2013 in New York.
4 min read · 15 February 2013
LambdaStar Infrastructure Partners is no longer. The fund company was best-known for its would-be deal to take over public parking in Harrisburg.
2 min read · 15 February 2013
US private equity firm TPG Capital and Ivanhoé Cambridge, one of the 10 largest real estate companies in the world, have taken ownership of Woolgate Exchange, for £265 million. Ivanhoé also revealed it is planning to open a London office of its own.
2 min read · 15 February 2013
The sale marks the third exit in 12 months for the UK firm, which is expected to raise Fund V this year.
2 min read · 15 February 2013
Separation between wholesale and retail price controls will go ahead, but Ofwat’s proposed ability to shift activities accounting for up to 40% of water firms’ total revenues outside of the current price control framework have been nixed.
2 min read · 15 February 2013
Carrying over its 2012 momentum into 2013, private debt fund manager Prefequity will hold a first close for its maiden fund by the end of March.
2 min read · 25 January 2013
