Contrary to what one might expect, a lot of managers are finding 2009 to be a good time to launch an infrastructure fund. From curious investors in emerging markets to helping hands from governments, there are plenty of reasons to be planning a roadshow.
3 min read · 08 February 2013
The British DFI has committed $5m to local manager Manocap.
1 min read · 08 February 2013
Catherine Lewis La Torre, co-founder of fund of funds Proventure, will help Fondinvest to invest two recently closed funds.
1 min read · 08 February 2013
The hybrid fund manager is one of several firms, including Bain affiliate Sankaty Advisors, trying to take advantage of the dearth of lenders for bankruptcy loans.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The latest sentiment survey from the US real estate lobby group, the Real Estate Roundtable, finds that confidence is rising in the industry – but there is still a ‘grim sense of reality’.
3 min read · 08 February 2013
Fundraising by Australian private equity funds plummeted to A$1.54bn in the year ending June 2009, although total investment value registered a slight increase.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Four veterans of the Asia real estate market gather in Singapore to compare notes. For the third year, PERE organised a roundtable discussion about the Asia real estate investment opportunity, this time in Singapore’s iconic Raffles Hotel. Our four Asia old-hands spoke optimistically about the forward fundamentals of many Asian countries, but voiced caution about the fragility in the west. PERE November issue.
10 min read · 08 February 2013
Campbell Lutyens has brokered a secondary restructuring transaction of Swiss-listed APEN, formerly known as AIG Private Equity.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The architect of Lehman Brothers' private equity strategy is to head a new investment business with the firm that advised on its overhaul in bankruptcy
3 min read · 08 February 2013
The world this month 2009-11-01 Staff Writer <strong>FUNDRAISING WINNERS AND LOSERS</strong><br> <sec level="2"><strong>HELLMAN & FRIEDMAN CLOSES $8.8BN FUND</strong><br> The San Francisco firm has raised the year's second-largest fund which, at $8.8 billion, i
6 min read · 08 February 2013
