KKR’s Euronext-listed vehicle, KKR Private Equity Investors, has invested or committed $4.3 billion in just ten months, the firm said today.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
Unitus Equity Fund has decided to set aside 10 percent of its profits to help the world’s poor gain access to microfinance.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The California-based firm’s investment has followed the first close of its first discretionary institutional buyout fund, Fairmont Capital Private Equity LP.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The co-founder of the Carlyle Group, one of the world’s biggest buyout firms, has urged his firm to target less risky investments because lenders are taking “very risky credit decisions” when financing private equity deals.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Specialist credit funds have revolutionised the leveraged loan market. But could this mean trouble for the private equity industry when things start to go wrong? James Taylor reports.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
Esprit Capital Partners has sold its stake in fraud software business Neteconomy, as it hits the exit trail ahead of another fundraising round.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The fund management arm of Permira’s biggest investor is set to close its latest structured product on €700m, above its original target of €500m.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
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
