In March, PEI Asia got hold of Mark Mobius, the globetrotting managing director of Franklin Templeton Investments, in Panama and asked him for his thoughts on the Shanghai stock market crash and its implications for private equity.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
The current debate about private equity in Europe is important, but to be productive it needs to be properly reasoned.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
Investors in private equity funds must get comfortable about the economics of the partnership. In today's market place, are managers being overcompensated, ask Oliver Gottschalg, Bernd Kreuter and Ludovic Phalippou.
10 min read · 12 January 2013
The fundraising carousel remains in full swing, and limited partners are struggling to cope with the pace. With strong distributions driving new commitments, few practitioners are preparing for a slowdown. Philip Borel reports.
8 min read · 12 January 2013
Nikko Principal Investments has sold UK firm RoadChef to an Israeli real estate group for £375 million. Nikko had owned the motorway service station chain for nearly ten years.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
A study of the corporation tax bills of the ten biggest private equity backed firms in the UK has revealed that, between them, they actually depleted the Treasury’s coffers last year.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The Pacific Shores Center was the right building at the wrong time, but it was still able to go from dot-com bust to post-bubble boom.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Falling return expectations could limit the number of attempted public-to-private deals in 2007, according to a new report.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
A Korean court has slapped Warburg Pincus with a fine in addition to sentencing Hwang Sung-jin, the US private equity firm’s local chief to four years in prison for insider trading.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The secondaries venture fund manager is acquiring a portfolio of four venture investments from 3i for an undisclosed sum in its first portfolio deal.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
