The fund is to provide more than £22m in loans this month, after which its capital will be fully invested. London-based Gravis expects to tap the market again later this year for a fresh round of fundraising.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Kirk Dizon, co-head of private equity at Hall Capital Partners, talks about the tough decisions facing an advisor with roughly 1500 funds to choose from.
4 min read · 15 January 2013
Bad memories of structured investment vehicles and a pricing mismatch between the underlying loans and the margins investors were demanding are said to have ultimately derailed the bank’s efforts to securitise £1.5bn of PFI loans.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
At a media gathering today, Macquarie Infrastructure Partners Chief Executive Chris Leslie said the US has plenty of reasons to be optimistic about private investment in infrastructure, even as obstacles remain to the market’s development.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
The firm, led by managing partner Robin Doumar, received commitments from pensions, insurance companies and sovereign wealth funds in Europe, Asia and North America.
1 min read · 15 January 2013
KKR's new head of real estate Ralph Rosenberg and chief administration officer Todd Fisher talk PERE through the buyout titan's plans for the asset class.
10 min read · 15 January 2013
Security Properties seeks to raise $50 million for investments in the Western US.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Blackstone’s $10.9 billion mega fund is roughly 90 percent invested in the wake of its $9.4bn acquisition of Centro Properties’ US assets. Was the mega deal evidence of a rush to close the fund or Blackstone simply exerting its unrivalled equity muscle yet again? PERE magazine April 2011 issue
5 min read · 15 January 2013
KKR has a titanic reputation in the world of private equity, having grown into a global business with $61 billion in assets under management. Its hire of Ralph Rosenberg turned lots of heads, but it will be some time before its real estate division catches up. PERE Magazine April issue 2010.
10 min read · 15 January 2013
GPs that rose with the credit bubble and fell when it burst, and that are coming to market this year to raise funds, are unlikely to gain the kind of support necessary to hit their targets, writes Christopher Witkowsky.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
