Fund manager AMVESCAP is buying WL Ross & Co, a US alternative assets manager, to beef up its product line-up for its clients.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
India's ICICI Venture gets into healthcare * GSJBW fund fully invested * Goldman, CDH win Chinese meat auction * LF Asia acquires menswear brands * IDFC lines up Indian stockbroker * Morgan Stanley to acquire Korean trader * Oak revisits India strategy * Carlyle retains Taiwan media focus * ChrysCapital exits via secondary * Allco, DB Capital acquire debt collector * Backing for Kiwi nursery firm * CHAMP consumes food firms * GIC, Olympus go organic in China
8 min read · 12 January 2013
KKR is about to test the market's appetite for listed LBO funds.
6 min read · 12 January 2013
How long is long-term? As general partners raise, deploy and return capital faster than ever before, their investors may be in danger of getting used to private equity's new short-termism. Ken MacFadyen reports.
8 min read · 12 January 2013
Life as a listed private equity firm leaves you exposed to some unwelcome publicity – as 3i discovered when talk of it being a bid target surfaced in February.
7 min read · 12 January 2013
Mark Weisdorf, who took a Canadian pension from zero to $5 billion in private equity commitments, sees even bigger opportunities in infrastructure.
6 min read · 12 January 2013
The Paris-based lower midmarket firm has raised €122 million for its second fund.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
By steering clear of the crowds, focusing on young portfolios and targeting fast-growth markets, Partners Group is demonstrating it has its own take on the private equity secondaries market.
4 min read · 12 January 2013
The Central and Eastern Europe focused firm has fully divested its stake in the Slovakian mobile operator.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
Superannuation funds have made a major contribution to the development of private equity in Australia. Now, they face a new challenge: to diversify their portfolios internationally. Andy Thomson reports.
6 min read · 12 January 2013
