Carlyle had reportedly been in talks to acquire the New Jersey-based energy-focused firm, which closed on its $4.3bn second fund in 2010.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The $154bn pension system will review a private equity business plan next week that shows a focus on reducing costs by creating separate accounts and expanding the co-investment programme.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
The real estate arm of Aberdeen Asset Management is looking to Sweden as the first in a country-by-country series of funds investing in residential property.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
While asset allocation to private equity remains relatively low at 11%, half of those surveyed in a recent LPEQ and Scorpio Partners study plan to increase their holdings in the asset class in the next year.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
What are the possibilities and limitations of the bond market as far as infrastructure investors are concerned? Spence Clunie of Ancala Partners and Anthony Forshaw of Deutsche Bank explore the question with reference to Moto, a deal they both worked on
9 min read · 15 January 2013
The European Investment Bank is facing one of its most daunting challenges: creating a vibrant infrastructure bond market that will one day stand on its own two feet. The bank’s president, Philippe Maystadt, tells Bruno Alves why he’s itching to make this happen sooner rather than later
9 min read · 15 January 2013
The Los Angeles-based real estate investment management firm has completed its purchase of ING Group’s global real estate securities business, ING Clarion Real Estate Securities. The deal forms part of its wider $940m acquisition of ING’s Real Estate Investment Management operations in Europe and Asia.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Germany has delivered robust economic performance and a surfeit of investment opportunities – so why are three of the country’s private equity professionals wary about the country’s future prospects?
10 min read · 15 January 2013
‘Unitranche’ debt is gaining ground with some US mid-market investors
3 min read · 15 January 2013
One year on from floating its management company and 35 years after its founding, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts continues to aggressively expand and refine its franchise. In a rare in-depth interview, co-founder George Roberts discusses both the firm’s and private equity’s ongoing evolution as they move past credit crisis ‘hiccups’ and closer to maturity.
10 min read · 15 January 2013
