The $24.7bn pension system will issue separate requests-for-proposals for an alternatives consultant and a real estate consultant, with plans to award new contracts by the end of the year.
2 min read · 14 January 2013
John Fenton, who took over Metrolink after a deadly 2008 collision, has been appointed boss of SteelRiver-owned Patriot Rail. Fenton has private sector experience. SteelRiver bought 100% of Patriot Tuesday.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Scott Hahn spent his entire working life at Morgan Stanley, where he built an impressive investment track record. Since leading a 2010 spin-out, he’s been bringing that prior experience to bear in Korea, which many investors consider more tricky than attractive. The co-founder of Hahn & Co talks to Drew Wilson about his firm’s edge in this misunderstood market
9 min read · 14 January 2013
A mandate to operate Luis Munoz International Airport is now a race between Highstar Capital and Macquarie Group. Meanwhile, the PPPA has extended its deadline to bid on its maiden social infrastructure project.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Fusion Capital, led by chairman Phil Goodwin, has a flexible mandate that allows for broad changes in strategy to accommodate the fluid marketplace.
3 min read · 14 January 2013
Lloyds Bank has promoted six professionals in four of its European offices, including former senior director Mark Craig, now a managing director in London.
2 min read · 14 January 2013
CVC boosts its senior ranks with two heavyweight recruits – debt banker Stephen Hickey, formerly of Goldman Sachs, and former PAI senior partner Bertrand Meunier. Oliver Smiddy reports
3 min read · 14 January 2013
The new US JOBS Act could make it easier for GPs to attract new investors – or it could change very little. Sam Sutton reports
3 min read · 14 January 2013
Unrealistic price demands continue to stymie dealflow on both sides of the Atlantic – but diversification can help the industry to keep attracting capital, according to a panel of top GPs at the Milken Institute Global Conference.
2 min read · 14 January 2013
The prospect of the first Socialist president for 24 years, coupled with continuing uncertainty over the fate of the euro, has led to a marked slowdown in French private equity, writes Oliver Smiddy.
7 min read · 14 January 2013
